Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Rushing Away From China?

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2010-03-26 14:12:00 UTC
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As I wrote earlier this week, I think the biggest story in global capitalism of this young decade is the Google-China story, which is quickly becoming about far more than just Google andcensored search results. That and more in this week's Weekend Entrepreneur Links.

Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting: On the surface, this story is notable as an example of the complication of post-crisis aid. What's equally fascinating to me, however, is the question of the ambiguous legal status of text message content. Text is increasingly the world's most common communication platform, and there's going to have to be more clarity around these questions.

What Does Health Care Reform Mean for Startups and VCs? and Will Health Insurance Reform Spur Entrepreneurship?: In the wake of health care passing, a number of articles have been written about the implications of the legislation for entrepreneurship. The common answer is sort of "well, not sure? Maybe a little?" I'm skeptical of any idea that changes in health insurance are going to induce people who otherwise wouldn't take the leap to become entrepreneurs, but it certainly doesn't hurt.

In response to new rules, GoDaddy to stop registering domain names in China and Dell Moving Factories Out of China: In the wake of Google's announcement earlier this week that it would be leaving China, two other major corporations have announced that they will also leave, for different but related reasons. Domain registration site GoDaddy is worried that new stipulations about the data they must collect from folks registering .cn domains are indications of a new strategy by the Chinese to use that information to control the flow of information. Dell indicated that broadly speaking, they were looking for a country more conducive to enterprise and with a more transparent legal structure. Accordingly, they'll be moving $25 billion in equipment and facilities to India from China.

Photo Credit: Chi King

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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