While most of the world happily enjoys the Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months. And, as shown by Google’s recent squabble with the Chinese government, it can be very hard to operate in the…

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr , where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Two months ago, Google threatened to shut down its China search engine over censorship . Yet until today, its China search engine has stayed up with …

If you had to pick the one buzzword that’s dominating social media chatter today, it would have to be location . Just over a year ago, Foursquare burst onto the scene at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Since then, it’s only grown dramatically . The result has been a battle for…

Doesn’t look too bad for a $95 Android tablet, huh? Well, there’s plenty more where that came from. Scattered along the main halls of CeBIT are dozens of Chinese and Taiwanese consumer electronics resellers looking to sell products to new customers, and this year they sure loaded up the suitcases with cheap Android / Windows…

According to Financial Times , U.S. officials have tracked down the authors of the malicious code used against Google in the recent attack . First, U.S. investigators narrowed down the launch of the program to computers inside two educational institutions in China. Now, they’ve found a hacker, a “…

Tiger Beer — a Singapore-brewed beer not associated with the now infamous golfer — is ready to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Tiger. It has recently released an iPhone app [ iTunes link ] that combines augmented reality and game play to help UK users discover the best their cities have…

Everyone’s always down for a good tech commercial parody , and now the politicos are getting in on the fun as well. Today, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Recovery Act, the Democrats on the House Labor and Education Committee as well as the National Republican Senatorial Committee released …

Calvin Chin is an American entrepreneur who lives in Shanghai. He founded Qifang , a P2P lending site for Chinese student loans. You can read more about Qifang here . He attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this last week, where China was the center of attention. We asked him to write this guest…

While DigiTimes isn’t our go-to source for all things Microsoft, the Taiwanese tattler does have its finger on the pulse of the Taiwanese / Chinese manufacturing juggernaut. As such, we expect it to be privy to information related to HTC, Acer, and ASUS handsets. So lean in close when it cites “sources familiar…

In an operation dubbed “ Aurora “, Chinese hackers have used a previously undiscovered security hole, existent in several major versions of Internet Explorer, to gain unauthorized access to data belonging to a couple of targeted individuals. Microsoft has since tried to downplay the significance of the security hole, but it was …