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Having an office in China (they actually have several) is different from having a market in China. They pulled out the market.
by fishywang 7y ago
Having an office in China (they actually have several) is different from having a market in China. They pulled out the market.
- jklm 7y agoThey're a B2B company, and they're still selling to their primary market - Chinese businesses - via advertising.
- whoevercares 7y agoIt’ll be interesting to start a discussion if that should also be cutoff(much like a Huawei ban, but this time entire nation)
- input_sh 7y ago...and then started working on rejoining it, before terminating the project in July this year. Fun anecdote: In 2010, it was Sergey Brin (now a president of Alphabet) who drove Google's withdrawal from China. In 2018, in what I'm sure is just a coincidence, the public found out that Google's project shares the name with Brin's yacht: Dragonfly.