AFP – Google is checking whether any of its China staff helped hackers lead a major cyberattack against the US Internet giant, which is now mulling whether to leave the country, a report said Tuesday.

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Reuters – Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the U.S. search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday.

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AFP – Illegal wildlife traders are turning to the Internet to reach a wider customer base, circumvent laws and evade authorities, an animal rights activist told a conference on Sunday.

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Reuters – China’s largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo Inc owns a 40 percent stake, has called the search giant’s comments on Google “reckless.”

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Reuters – China’s largest e-commerce group Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo Inc owns a 40 percent stake, has called the search giant’s comments on Google “reckless.”

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Reuters – China sought on Friday to play down a threat by Google Inc to quit the country on hacking and censorship concerns, saying any decision by the Internet search giant would not affect U.S. trade ties.

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AP – In China’s first official response to Google’s threat to leave the country, the government Thursday said foreign Internet companies are welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over Web censorship.

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Reuters – Google Inc threatened to quit China, the world’s biggest Internet market, warning it would no longer tolerate strict censorship of its Google.cn search engine.

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Reuters – Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army briefly hijacked the home page of China’s top search engine, Baidu Inc, on Tuesday weeks after doing the same thing to Twitter.com.

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Reuters – The pace of growth of China’s online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 percent to 27.1 billion yuan ($3.97 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch.

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