Google's Gmail accusation not acceptable: China

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 15:42 [IST]Beijing, Mar 22: Responding to Google's accusations of interfering Gmail services, China said on Tuesday, Mar 22 that it was not acceptable. Beijing officials rejected Google's accusations without commenting much on the matter.

"This is an unacceptable accusation," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told during a regular news conference.

Earlier on Monday, Mar 21, the search engine giant Google accused that Chinese Communist government of interfering its popular email service, Gmail. Google said that government's intervene makes it difficult for Chinese Gmail users to access the service.

"There is no technical issue on our side; we have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail," Google said in a brief statement.

Google has been facing strict censorship from Chinese government since Jan 2010. Recently, Google decided to reduce its presence in China.

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Facebook hires Google's top executive Zoufonoun

California, Mar 15: Reaching the rivalry in new heights, media reported that world's largest social networking platform Facebook hired one the Google's director of corporate development.

Facebook reportedly hired Google's Amin Zoufonoun to lead its mergers and acquisitions team. The new move from Facebook hints that the company has been planning to acquire more start-ups and to widen its staff talents.

Zoufonoun has been with Google since 2003. His LinkedIn profile described that Zoufonoun is mainly focused on strategy and deal execution, including evaluation, negotiating and executing Google’s mergers, acquisitions and investments. Zoufonoun will report to Facebook's Vaughan Smith.

Earlier in Mar 2011, Google acquired a UK price comparison website beatthatquote.com for $61 million and bought another Web video production company Next New Networks, aiming to make YouTube as a content creator.

Google has been facing brain drain to other tech firms like Facebook. Market analysts estimated that a 10 per cent of Facebook employers are ex-Google staffs.

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