From the Los Angeles Times
Quantcast Google may leave China in wake of hacker attacks
By David Sarno And Jessica Guynn
In a rare corporate rebuke of Asia's economic superpower, Google Inc. on Tuesday said it might leave China and the country's 350 million Internet users after it was the victim of a series of cyber attacks that originated from that nation.
According to Google, a "highly sophisticated" December attack on its main corporate computers resulted in "the theft of intellectual property."...
Google has long had a rocky relationship with China, where censorship and marketing limitations have held it to a distant second behind China's leading search engine, Baidu.com, which accounts for more than 60% of the market.
"If your two corporate mottoes are 'Don't be evil' and 'Organize the world's information,' you are bound to have trouble in China," said Steve Weber, a political science [and information] professor at UC Berkeley. Still, he said, the choice to leave an emerging market the size of China could not be an easy one for Google....