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Angry Birds theme park opens in China

A major, though unlicensed, Angry Birds attraction opened 1 September in Changsha, the capital of the Hunan province in the South East of China. The iconic birds are now part of the Window of the World amusement park, Changsha’s biggest tourist attraction, CNNgo reports . Built as part of the park’s month-long Stress-reduction festival, the park simulates the actions of the popular smart phone game, where players can pull a real catapult and shoot plush Angry Birds toys at green piggy balloons placed around a toy brick fortress. The attraction is situated next to the park’s American Zone, near a scaled down copy of Mount Rushmore. “This [Angry Birds attraction] serves as a method for people to purge themselves and to gain happiness,” one park official told Gamesky.com, a Chinese gaming website. The game is scheduled only to last through September, but Window of the World marketing manager Ye Xiumei said the park may extend the attraction’s lifespan. Officials had hoped for more attention than the game has gathered thus far, though low turnout has been attributed to poor promotion and the end of school holidays. The park is not an officially licensed Angry Birds product, but the game’s developers Rovio have coincidentally just released a line of Angry Birds moon cakes to celebrate China’s Mid-Autumn festival.

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Google Partially Blocked by Chinese Government

Google has reported on Wednesday that its sites are partially blocked on mainland China. According to the New York Times, this comes one day after Google made the decision to stop redirecting users in mainland China to its unfiltered site in Hong Kong and on the same day that the deadline for the Chinese government to approve Google’s license to operate within the country.

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YouTube Wins Viacom Lawsuit

After a long-winded battle in the courts between Viacom Inc. and YouTube over a copyright infringement lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York yesterday ruled in favor of Google’s video-sharing website.

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Chinese Advertising Resellers Post Open Letter to Google

Google’s advertising resellers in China posted an open letter to the company on Tuesday, urging the company to resolve its issues with the Chinese government and avoid leaving the market. According to MarketWatch, a plea from more than two dozen local advertising resellers was posted on the state-run CCTV Web site, calling for Google to reach an agreement with the government over privacy concerns that has caused Google to threaten to leave the Chinese market.

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Find Bike Routes with Google Maps

With the help of nonprofit Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Google has biking directions in the U.S. to Google Maps with information on bike trails in more than 150 cities.

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Google Books to Feature Rare Italian Books

Google today announced an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage to digitize up to one million out-of-copyright works by Italian authors that were published before 1868.

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Google Latest Victim of Chinese Knock-Off Brand

Knock-off versions of brand name items coming from China might seem so common that it’s almost become a cliché. But the trend appears to be moving beyond purses and DVDs and into new territory — like search engines. BBC News reports that a new Chinese search engine has launched called Goojje that has a look and feel that is eerily similar to Google.

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Google Threatening to Stop Operations in China

Google is threatening to leave China after a dispute revolving around a cyber attack the search giant says “resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.” According to DailyFinance.com, Google is vowing to end its censorship of its Chinese language search site, a move that would be seen as thumbing its nose at the communist Chinese government.

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Analysts: Explicit Dissent, Militant Censorship Will Roil Chinese Internet in 2009

Little more than one week after Chinese officials announced a month-long campaign to crack down on websites that distribute “vulgar material,” several new sites have been blacklisted.

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Search Engine Report Highlights China

The new Research and Markets report, evaluates the influence of the Chinese search industry, by surveying over 2,800 users in the major markets of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

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