Re: Dell and Go Daddy threaten to follow Google out of China.


4th loser is Poon Chi Yeong, Nelson

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:47:19 +0800, "AleXX"
<alexx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dells sells computers and Go Daddy sells domain, they are going to loss
businesses in China to placard the political agenda of the US. If they don't
behave, China will kick the arse out of them. China has more than a billion
of internet users. All three are losers.



"Peter Terpstra" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1943828.RqVoOGUtdW@xxxxxxxxx

Dell and Go Daddy threaten to follow Google out of China

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 3:17AM GMT 25 Mar 2010

Two major US technology companies, Dell and Go Daddy, have threatened to
pull
out of China in the wake of Google's departure from the country.

Go Daddy Group, which sells internet domain names, said it would stop
offering
new ".cn" domain registrations in China, following the introduction of new
regulations.

The Chinese government has said that anyone wishing to buy a website name
in
China will now have to provide full photo identification.

Go Daddy made the announcement during a committee hearing of the United
States
Congress dubbed "Google and Internet Control in China: A Nexus between
Human
Rights and Trade".

Christine Jones, Go Daddy's executive vice president, told the committee
that
the company was "concerned for the security of individuals" and that the
new
regulations would have a "chilling effect" on new domain name
registrations.

Chris Smith, a Republican Congressman for New Jersey said: "Google fired a
shot heard around the world and now a second American company has answered
the
call to defend the rights of the Chinese people."

Meanwhile, Dell, the world's third-largest PC company by sales, hinted
that it
may be considering switching its operations from China to India.

Michael Dell, the founder and chief executive of the company, made the
suggestion in a meeting with Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

Mr Singh told the Hindustan Times: "This morning I met the chairman of
Dell
Corporation. He informed me that they are buying equipment and parts worth
$25
billion from China (£16 billion). They would like to shift to safer
environment with a climate conducive to enterprise with security of legal
system."

The news came as Dell's first plant in India, in Sriperumbudur in Tamil
Nadu,
made its first export shipment. The plant has the capacity to make a
million
computers a year. So far, most of the plant's production has gone to the
Indian domestic market, but it has now begun shipping to the Middle East.
According to the Indian media, tax breaks given to Dell make it cheaper
for
the company to supply the Middle East, Africa and Europe out of India,
rather
than China.

A spokesman for Dell said the company had no imminent plans to pull out of
China, however. "Mr Dell believes India also has an opportunity of
becoming a
hardware manufacturing hub, generating employment and adding to the
country's
impressive growth. Dell has not made any plans to shift its component
spend at
this time," he said.

Meanwhile, the fall-out from Google's departure from the mainland has
begun in
earnest, with China Unicom, the country's second-largest mobile operator,
announcing that it will remove the Google search function from its new
Android-based mobile phones.

"We are willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law... we
don't have any co-operation with Google currently," said Lu Yimin, China
Unicom's president.

Unicom is the first company to drop its alliance with Google, alongside
TOM
Online, a Hong Kong-based internet company owned by the family of Li
Ka-shing,
Hong Kong's richest man and a key ally of the Communist government.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7517291/Dell-and-Go-Daddy-
threaten-to-follow-Google-out-of-China.html

--
Amnesty International Report 2009 on China:
http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/china


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