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It's crackdown season for China with the launch of the new "Five Year Governance Plan" by President Xi Jinping's Communist Party, chiefly targeting the private sector.

It's crackdown season for China with the launch of the new "Five Year Governance Plan" by President Xi Jinping's Communist Party, chiefly targeting the private sector.

This week: Amazon accused of anticompetitive behaviour; Microsoft sunset Chinese localised LinkedIn; Russia to fine Google; Zuckerberg as a defendant.

While LinkedIn might have seemed like an easy market-entry tool for some, it was never influential enough to be financially worthwhile both for advertisers and Microsoft, writes We Are Social’s Pete Lin.

LinkedIn folded its China operation because it couldn’t straddle two different political systems with opposing values and still be successful.

Microsoft to shut down localised LinkedIn in China; Scopely acquire GSN Games; and Kargo have acquired StitcherAds for USD$64m (£46.3m).

Microsoft is having a tough time trying to comply with the Chinese state through LinkedIn.

LinkedIn will end its operations in China more than a week after it was in the spotlight for blocking access to US journalists for its China-based users.

Microsoft said it will shut down its LinkedIn site inside of China, days after facing public criticism for censoring the posts of several U.S. journalists.

LinkedIn announced Thursday it was shuttering its website in China, citing a "significantly more challenging operating environment."