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Principles are good...what happens when they are tested?

Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:43 AM by will
Longtime readers of this blog will recall I have devoted extensive time to the various woes of foreign (read: American) Internet companies in China, covering both their business and political woes . (Recap of previous posts here .) Now we've reached the Read More...
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CIC's new blog and review

Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:03 AM by will
Periodically journalist friends ask me who can comment on China Internet issues. The list of people I send them to is pretty short. Someone who's always near the top is Sam Flemming of CIC , a company in Shanghai that specializes in watching what is unfolding Read More...
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Monday PR blog: Chinese consumers zap Apple over battery recall

Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 6:25 AM by will
As the owner of a Powerbook I recently went through Apple's battery recall. One of my two batteries was affected. I filled out the online form and within a week a new battery was delivered with a postage-paid return envelope for the old one. Crisp, clean Read More...
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What's wrong with this picture?

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:30 PM by will
Microsoft (or Apple) may want to get on the horn to the folks at Xinhua, who apparently haven't got their digital music player models entirely sorted out. An article on Microsoft's licensing deal with Universal music for the Zune music player included Read More...
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CNET 42: Is YouTube a time bomb for Google in China?

Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:15 AM by will
Is YouTube a time bomb for Google in China? November 6, 2006 On the heels of last week's Internet Governance Forum in Athens, an event that yielded some memorable statements , I thought it might be worth pondering a situation infested with unroosted chickens: Read More...
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When I say there is no censorship in China, I mean there is a certain amount...

Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:37 AM by will
Imagethief was interested to read today all about the interesting things oozing out of the Internet Governance Forum current taking place in Athens. First, of course, US Internet firms are, as always, under pressure for their complicity in the Chinese Read More...
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Monetize this!

Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:34 AM by will
Imagethief is back in Beijing. I survived my holiday with my body intact, but my bank account much damaged, which is pretty much the result of any vacation I take back to Singapore or the United States. As usual, I've arrived back in the office to hundreds Read More...
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A few good reads

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:45 AM by will
Time was short today, so you've been spared the mooncake rant, the cultural relativism rant and a few other choice in-development rants. But I did notice a few articles that I though I'd pass along to readers so you can keep outta trouble. Just because Read More...
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CNET 28: Lessons from the Chinabounder case

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 9:32 PM by will
Lessons from the Chinabounder case September 12, 2006 A month ago, in a post I wrote on my Imagethief blog about the pecking order of foreigners in China, an anonymous commenter asked me what I thought of a blog at chinabounder.blogspot.com (currently Read More...
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Sound advice for Foxconn from Bruce Einhorn

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 12:19 AM by will
Also via the suddently prolific David Wolf , BusinessWeek's Einhorn tells Foxconn's Terry Gou to suck it up and hire a good flack : [The crisis has left] some people wondering who's giving you advice. I spoke to one exec from a big multinational that Read More...
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Foxconn finale: All's well that ends in retreat?

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:27 PM by will
According to ESWN Foxconn has reduced the damages requested to 1 yuan. Roland is citing a very brief Netease report, and I am not sure how authoritative it is. But if it is true, then it means that Foxconn has taken one of the possible paths I outlined Read More...
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Wednesday PR blog: Foxconn shoots themselves, Apple in foot

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:46 AM by will
You may recall Foxconn, AKA Honhai Precision Manufacturing, as the company at the center of a recent PR crisis for Apple Computer, when a British newspaper published reports that they were mistreating the workforce responsible for assembling luscious Read More...
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Further struggles of foreign Internet companies in China

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:58 AM by will
Jason Dean of the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau has written the latest chapter (subscription) in the annals of foreign Internet companies' bleak histories in China. Jason's article looks into a segment we don't hear too much about in these Web Read More...
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Deconstructing HRW's report on China

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:39 AM by will
I have a lot of time for Rebecca MacKinnon . She has worthwhile things to say about China, and she's been an energetic and outspoken advocate for a more open media and Internet environment in China and a greater degree of accountability from the foreign Read More...
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CNET 21: Did the People's Daily get hacked?

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:34 AM by will
Did the People's Daily get hacked? August 10, 2008 The People's Daily , the official mouthpiece of China's Communist Party, has been called many things: staid, dull, propagandistic, impenetrable, bizarre. One thing it has rarely been called is racy. But Read More...
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