According to the Reg, China has bought a controlling stake in Google.
The People’s Republic of China has acquired a controlling stake in the United States’ fastest growing technology company, Google.
Google announced the transfer of 140m shares of Class B stock to a new entity owned by the Chinese Ministry of Information in typically forthright style.
Also, it’s the first of April. Happy April fools’ everyone (don’t believe anything you read today).
Wait… you said don’t believe anything I read… right before that you said it’s the first of April… a-ha! So, it isn’t really the first of April!
Ah. Silly me. That should have been “don’t believe everything you read today.” :)
I will take that as a cue to stop believing this news post. =]
Last year, I almost fell for the “big news” that the W3C was allegedly banning the use of DIV and SPAN tags and CSS. Gullible me.