Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more

Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more

Here’s the latest action (updated):

Google buys stake in China’s Tianya, launches two Chinese social sites: Google has invested in Tianya, a Chinese online community of twenty million registered users. A Google spokesperson confirmed the investment with VentureBeat, but didn’t say how much of the company it now owns. Reuters has more. The two companies also announced the joint launch of two services that compete directly against offerings from dominant Chinese search rival, Baidu.

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