That’s why one Beijing NGO turned to Google Maps to track the location of some of China’s most heavily polluting companies, putting pressure on multinationals like Walmart to clean up their ...

Google Maps has found itself in a bit of a kerfuffle on social media after some users noticed that some of its maps highlighted the controversial so-called nine-dash line that marks China’s ...

And given the longstanding hostilities between China and Google’s corporate leadership, Google Maps represents something of a foreign policy challenge for Beijing. When the people drawing the ...

More specifically, Google Maps shows Mount Everest is located in China, as you can see in the screenshots here, despite the fact that geographically, it’s placed right on the China-Nepal border.

Beijing-based search giant Baidu, sometimes referred to as the Google of China, will launch Baidu Maps in more than 150 countries, providing services for 99 percent of the world's population.

Last weekend, many Chinese netizens noticed that they are able to get access to Google Maps, one of the many Google services that have been blocked in China ... with Beijing’s censorship ...

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google’s still determined to make it work, but at what cost? Yesterday ...