Beijing: The Internet company Google said on Friday that the Beijing government had renewed the licence it needed to continue operating a website in China, securing the search giant's foothold in the country's fast-growing Internet market despite tensions over censorship.
The renewal of the licence to provide Internet content had been in doubt because of rocky relations between Google and the hacking of Gmail accounts and censor ship of search results.
"We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP (Internet content provider) license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China," Google's lawyer, David Drummond, said in a statement.
Google closed its China search engine in March but has wanted to keep a website that offers music and other services. User had been automatically redirected to Google stopped that last week after Chinese officials warned the move could mean losing its license.
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