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By Terence Huynh on December 21st, 2010

Zuckerberg to partner with Baidu to open Facebook China?

Image: Sina (via guardian.co.uk)

Founder of Facebook and recent inductee to Time’s Person of the Year, Mark Zuckerberg, has been spotted in China taking a tour around Baidu; and now, speculation is rising of a possible Facebook in China, with the help of Baidu’s power in one of the largest markets in terms of users on the Internet.

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By Terence Huynh on August 12th, 2008

Georgia: Russia engaging in cyber warfare

The bitter conflict between two former Soviet republics, Russia and Georgia, over the Georgian province of South Ossetia may have now migrated online after the Georgian presidential website and other government sites have been attacked by a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) – which shuts down a computer network by flooding it with requests that lead to a non-existing page on the server.

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By Terence Huynh on July 18th, 2008

Google buys contextual ads company for $140 million

Google is in the process of buying the Russian contextual ad company ZAO Begun for $140 million from the UK-registered Rambler Media, according to TechCrunch.

While the ad company is a Russian company, many firms have based themselves in the UK; with Rambler owning 50.1 percent of the company. Basically, Rambler will buy the other 49.9 percent from Bannatyne Limited and then sell the firm to Google.

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By Terence Huynh on November 10th, 2007

Russian malware gang vanishes

A Russian gang that is alleged to hosting malware has vanished after their software disappeared from the web, says Trend Micro. The Russian Business Network, which was alleged to have been heavily involved in packing kits -development kits to deploy malicious software- suddenly dropped off the internet on Thursday, the Tokyo-based company said.

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By Terence Huynh on August 29th, 2007

AllofMP3.com is back from the dead

The Russian music download site, allofMP3.com, is set to be reborn after a Moscow court found that the site is legal. This comes a big blow to the US Government.

The site says that it pays it royalties to a non-commercial company that spreads the money to the record companies.

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