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Microsoft completes Windows 10 customized for China's government

Microsoft has finished a version of Windows 10 for China's government and state-owned businesses, and is ready to begin selling the software.
FireEye: China still spies on U.S. companies, but maybe less

Cyber espionage based in China isn’t all run by the government, report says.
Gartner on doing business in China: Privacy? What’s that?

Jie Zhang says that as a child in China she played a game picking up marbles with chopsticks and performing the delicate task of carrying them to another room without dropping them. That’s what doing business in China is like for Westerners, she told a breakfast gathering today at Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit.
How Cisco is trying to keep NSA spies out of its gear

Cisco is working to build the confidence of prospective customers in its products, two years after the NSA spying disclosures seeded doubt, particularly in China.
Cisco said to plan China partnership to boost market access

Cisco is tying with a Chinese partner for joint development and better access to the local market, according to a newspaper report.

Features about China

10 lessons U.S. tech managers can learn from their counterparts in China

China is on a technological roll these days -- one that American companies ignore at their own peril. Contrary to outdated Western perceptions, 680 million Chinese have access to either a laptop or a mobile phone, and some 95% of homes in every city in China are now wired for the Internet, according to figures from the Chinese government.
Clock may be ticking for Google to act on China

About two weeks after Google publicly squared off with the Chinese government, the world is still watching for the search company's next step.
World of Warcraft awaits China's approval to relaunch

The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content.
China's Internet lockdown hurts local e-businesses

China has started restoring some Internet access to a province where it was blocked after deadly ethnic riots two weeks ago, but the outage has already taken a toll on local businesses.
Has China's Green Dam burst?

China did a sudden about-face late yesterday and decided to delay its controversial requirement that all computers sold after July 1 must come with Web filtering software.