China is well known for its online censorship and for taking down even major sites. But two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Great Firewall of China has taken its efforts to a new level – Twitter, Flickr and a number of Microsoft services have been blocked.
First to go was [...]

The effects of the decision to stop censoring results in China are already starting to be felt at Google. According to new studies, Google lost a big slice of the search-ad market in the first quarter of the year, the first decline since the second quarter of 2009. It’s now clear that advertisers are worried [...]