On Jan. 12, Google announced it will stop censoring search results on its Chinese site, Google.cn, in response to what the company calls "highly sophisticated" hacking of its Web site from China and the infiltration of Gmail accounts of human-rights activists in China and other countries. Google, the owner of the world’s most popular search engine, announced on its corporate blog that due to issues including censorship and recent cyber-attacks, the company could shut down its China-based operations.

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