China renews Google license amid censorship row

BEIJING (AP) — China renewed Google’s license to operate a website, preserving the search giant’s toehold in the most populous Internet market after it gave up an attempt to skirt Beijing’s Web censorship. Google Inc. said today its Internet content provider, or ICP, license was approved but gave no details of what services it would offer. The company closed its China-based search engine in March to avoid cooperating with Chinese Web filtering but wanted to keep the site to offer music and other services.