It is said that QIANXUN.COM, the online shopping website, already started cutting its staff. There are only about 80 employees remaining now. The redundancy will end after the Spring Festival. Previous, one insider of QIANXUN.COM said that SK is planning to stop investing QIANXUN.COM and the website also stoped its CPS advertisement.

Baidu CEO Robin Li said in a recent media interview that Baidu did not deliberatly strive for users. In addition, he also said that Baidu has not thought to learn Google.

In the past few days we have heard many rumors about Google China and its local employees. Some reported that we have shut down the offices in China and some claimed our Chinese staff would lose their jobs in the near future. These rumors are not true! Chinese employees of Google.cn are, as usual, working in the office, discussing product development and talking with our clients.

BJEDU.CC specially launched an SNS (home.bjedu.cc) for primary and secondary students in Beijing. The site claims to use real-name registration system.

Home appliance retailer Suning's e-commerce platform SUNING.CN formally went live today and the retailer giant also announced its future development strategy of occupying more than 20% of the home appliance e-commerce market to make it China's largest 3C (computer, communications, consumer electronics) home appliance B2C website.

In many respects, information has never been so free. There are more ways to spread more ideas to more people than at any moment in history. Even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.

One week after announced its withdrawal from the China market, the U.S. Internet giant said its business in China once again return to normal operation. After the statement, the staff had a one-week holiday so that Google could run the tests and scans to ensure safe and reliable network," Google In response to queries Agence France-Presse said, "Google China staff already went back to work . Everything goes well. "

Google has today revealed that in mid-December, they, along with a number of other large companies in the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors, were targeted in a sophisticated cyber-attack. This attack on their infrastructure originated in China, and resulted in the theft of intellectual property.

Baidu, China's largest Internet search engine, was the target of a four-hour cyber attack yesterday, the most severe since it was established in 1999. The company said it had restored services for most Internet users by 6 pm. A hacker group, calling itself Iranian Cyber Army, hijacked Baidu's home page and left a message in Farsi saying that the act was a protest against foreign involvement in Iran's domestic politics.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's Web site and from CNET Download.com.