Yet no news on what Google has agreed to censor, if anything. AP:
BEIJING (AP) — China renewed Google’s license to operate a website, preserving the search giant’s toehold in the most populous Internet market after it gave up an attempt to skirt Beijing’s Web censorship.
Google Inc. said Friday its Internet content provider, or ICP, license was approved but gave no details of what services it would offer. The company closed its China-based search engine in March to avoid cooperating with Chinese Web filtering but wanted to keep the site to offer music and other services.
Google said in January it no longer wanted to comply with rules requiring it to censor search results after it traced hacking attacks to China. The announcement embarrassed Chinese leaders, prompting questions about whether they might punish the company by shutting it out of China, where Google has a lucrative advertising business and a fledgling mobile phone operation.
“We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China,” Google’s top lawyer, David Drummond, said in a statement.
The one-sentence statement gave no details. A Google spokeswoman, Courtney Hohne, said information on what services Google will offer in China would be released in coming weeks.