SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc surprised markets on Friday by saying Chinese authorities had renewed its licence to operate a website. In a bid to secure the licence, the world's largest search engine said last week it would stop automatically redirecting users of its China search site, Google.cn, to its uncensored Hong Kong site.
The saga began when Google said in January it may quit China over censorship concerns and after suffering a hacker attack it said came from within China.
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