map to the search engine to the calendars to the phones, it is inevitable that you re going to end up with these hiccups. the question of course is how you handle something as mammoth as china when both parties seem to wanted to back down. and i think that is an incredible point. to me, they were standing on the great firewall of china on a different edge. now, they have taken a step back. these are two companies, well, i guess china inc and google inc. the element you have here with google and why they have seen drop is not based on their relationship with china. google has a search engine. a software company is the primary point of access as a business. the problem is coming from the shift in business model and
battle between google and china over sensor ship and christine romans is minding your business this morning. she has more on that. this is a fascinating development. a deal has been reached between china and google for china to continue its search engine activities in the country. you might recall that google shocked the world in january when it said that it would no longer be a part of the great firewall of china, as its called, where the chinese censor and block different search results as they try to, as many people say, launder the information that the chinese people are seeing. this is what google says this morning. we are very pleased that the government has renewed our icp, internet content provider, license and we look forward to continuing to provide web serve and local information to china. we don t know what the deal is. will there be censorship?
all sides happy with how it worked out, or is this going to pop up again in the future? oh-oh i would not go that far. i would say you know what, these two were standing on the great firewall of china, and they both have taken a step back from the edge, if you will. it looks as though google could go dark in china. i mean, it could lose its license to operate completely as a company there. and they have resolved that conflict for now with the chinese authorities. and google tells us that we are, quote, very pleased that the government has renewed our icp. that s internet content provider license. and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in china. uncensored web searches will still be available, t.j., through google.com.hk, the hong kong-based service from google. but they renewed their license, the government renewed their license, so google could provide some other products to the chinese mainland that do not
we felt that rather than pardoning positions at that point it would be better to sit down quietly, hopefully, and in a constructive way and take on some issues which we feel are critical. for example, the too big to fail issue. we don t think anybody should be too big to fail. this big, unfortunately, sort of preserves too big to fail. so we the issues like that we think we can improve on and we intend to try to, and hopefully we can sit down with senator dodd and his people and accomplish that. all right, senator judd gregg, republican of new hampshire, thanks for being with us, we appreciate your time. thank you for your time, savannah. coming up, google cracks the great firewall of china. that s always such a great pun. an israeli diplomat gets the boot in britain. plus, in today s decision 2010, challenging health care. how many of those attorneys general questioning the constitutionality of health care are also running for governor this november? first, washingto
looks like you know especially the technology part makes competition tougher in the future for us here in europe also for the americans and also despite what the president said there in beijing today about more openness it s likely that this is continuously going to be a very much of a top down managed country and economy. and for us there in frankfurt and and reading in singapore with a financial analysis on china thank you well president she s promise of an open economy sounds nice but what about an open exchange of information internet censorship the so-called great firewall of china is a problem for outspoken chinese and foreign firms and the government s threatening to crack down on v.p.n. its. name calling is a german company that provides data system consultancy to foreign firms with operations in china. the beijing government is now planning to block access to