LONDON (AFP) – Dissident artist Ai Weiwei warned the Chinese government that its attempts to censor the internet would inevitably fail, in an article published in Monday’s Guardian newspaper.
Ai, who was held for 81 days last year as police rounded up dissidents amid online calls for Arab-style protests in China, wrote in the British newspaper that new ”real identity” rules to curb troublesome microbloggers would only ”push the problem to the next generation”.
LONDON (Reuters) – The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet’s creation are facing their greatest-ever threat, the co-founder of Google
Sergey Brin said in an interview published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper on Monday.
By Andy Goldberg, dpa
San Francisco (dpa) – Google announced a long-awaited stock split Thursday as it reported first-quarter revenues of 10.65 billion dollars, a 24 per cent increase over its 8.58 billion dollars in sales a year ago.
Profits rose to 3.39 billion dollars from 2.3 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2011.
