Today, Google’s Chinese Internet Content Provider license is up for renewal. If it isn’t granted, Google will lose the Chinese market.
Silicon valley
Silicon Valley’s secret police squad
When the Gizmodo editor’s house was raided recently over the leaked iPhone, it was done by a shadowy outfit called the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team. So what is it, and who’s in charge?
Hot new job title: ninja
Forget “guru” and “evangelist” — the trendy new buzzword for what we used to call “expert” is apparently now “ninja”. In less surprising news, most of these self-appointed neo-warriors are white IT nerds.
Dear Twitter: beware the Silicon Valley hype machine
Twitter may be the flavour-of-the-month in the world of tech journalism, says Chris O’Brien, but the much-hyped social media giant could learn a thing or two from the experience of Second Life. What? Exactly.
Arrington: The embargo is dead, chaos rules
When Michael Arrington, founder of tech gossip blog TechCrunch, announced he would no longer be honoring press embargoes, critics predicted it kill the site. But a year on, he says, embargoes are virtually extinct in the tech world, and his readers couldn’t be happier.
State of the planet
Millions of jobs at risk from climate change … World body warns over ocean ‘fertilisation’ to fix climate change … Gore turns to Silicon Valley in green fight … Brazil hailed as ‘quiet green giant’ … Deceit and global warming: Greenwashing the palm oil industry
