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Microsoft to Shut Down LinkedIn in China, Cites ‘Challenging’ Environment

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Microsoft to Shut Down LinkedIn in China, Cites ‘Challenging’ Environment

Microsoft closed LinkedIn nearly seven years after its launch in China, which marked the last major U.S.-owned social network retreat in China as the Chinese authorities further strengthened their control over the Internet industry.

LinkedIn said in a blog post on Thursday that it will replace the platform with a streamlined version later this year, which focuses only on work, called InJobs, and does not include social feeds or sharing options. “Although we have been successful in helping Chinese members find jobs and economic opportunities, we have not found the same level of success in sharing and staying informed more socially,” LinkedIn said. “We are also facing a more challenging operating environment and higher compliance requirements in China.”

LinkedIn’s actions in China have been closely watched. As a model of how Western social media applications operate on China’s heavily regulated Internet, the country has banned many other platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The platform expanded in China in 2014, when the company admitted that it had to censor some content posted by users on its website to comply with Chinese regulations.

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It is one of the companies that have been hit by Beijing on a large scale in the past year, and Beijing has imposed new restrictions on its Internet companies from content to customer privacy. The Chinese government also expressed the hope that the platform will more actively promote the core values ​​of socialism. In March of this year, LinkedIn suspended its new registration in China, saying it was working hard to comply with Chinese laws.

Two months later, it became one of 105 applications that China’s top Internet regulator accused of illegal collection and use of personal information and ordered rectification. The news site Axios reported last month that LinkedIn has blocked the personal data of several American journalists and academics on its Chinese platform, which contain information that China considers sensitive, on the grounds that “content is prohibited”. Microsoft also owns Bing, the only major foreign search engine accessible from within China’s so-called firewall, and its search results on sensitive topics are censored.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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