Facebook is blocked in China, but its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg appears determined to win over hearts and minds in Beijing – surprising a hall full of students by conducting a Q&A session in Mandarin. Zuckerberg charmed his audience comprising Chinese and international students when he kicked off the half-hour session at the elite Tsinghua University with the words “Hello, everyone” in heavily accented Chinese.
Apple and Nike are working on new item of wearable technology that will have greater integration into existing gadgets, and is less obvious and more “stealth”, according to the Nike chief executive, Mark Parker.
Qihoo 360 browser users' local connections to iCloud.com are being rerouted to a dummy site that's identical to Apple's login page, Greatfire said. Users of Firefox or Chrome land on a warning page instead.
Malaysian company GrabTaxi has raised $90 million in funding in the last 12 months and that's big news in this part of the world. Southeast Asia plays hosts to 600 million people -- twice the population of the US -- and while the app only has 400,000 active users a month, that's plenty of space for growth.
In the place of these unofficial or illegal links — which often rank above legal, commercial sites — Google will now show direct links to Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and other “official” sites. Furthermore, Google will more aggressively prune the results that pop up via autocomplete so that they’re in-line with DMCA takedown notices (i.e. Google will no longer prompt you with “free download” when you start typing the name of a movie).