{"id":38022,"date":"2021-10-15T08:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/15\/microsoft-to-shut-linkedin-in-china-amid-beijing-tech-clampdown"},"modified":"2021-10-15T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:26:46","slug":"microsoft-to-shut-linkedin-in-china-amid-beijing-tech-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38022","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to shut LinkedIn in China amid Beijing tech clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company cites \u2018challenging operating environment\u2019 in announcing site will be replaced with jobs app without social networking features<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says it will shut down LinkedIn in China, citing a \u201cchallenging operating environment\u201d as Beijing tightens control over tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based company will replace the career-oriented social network in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to the senior vice-president of engineering, Mohak Shroff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/15\/microsoft-to-shut-linkedin-in-china-amid-beijing-tech-clampdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company cites \u2018challenging operating environment\u2019 in announcing site will be replaced with jobs app without social networking featuresMicrosoft says it will shut down LinkedIn in China, citing a \u201cchallenging operating environment\u201d as Beijing tightens c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,662,2226,58,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-communism","category-linkedin","category-technology","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022\/revisions\/38023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}