Microsoft pulls LinkedIn out of China

US tech giant Microsoft has decided operating a social network in China has become too much like hard work.
In a blog post, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn Mohak Shroff said he would be scrapping the special version of LinkedIn Microsoft made for China later this year because it has become impossible to do properly. Being a corporate type, however, he had to dress it up in oblique, euphemistic language, featuring talk of ‘sunsetting’ and a ‘challenging operating environment&rsqu