Tag: Baidu
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LuBo 2 years 20 days ago
Ticked off that the United States gave the Dalai Lama the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal this week, reports are trickling in that China is blocking Google, Yahoo and Microsoft searches and redirecting them to Baidu. I don't have to explain how important the Chinese market, including search market, is to the U.S. economy. I wonder what else China has up their sleeves.
Baidu is traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Say what you want about Google's stock price, but Baidu's share price keeps increasing--it's at a lofty $320 per share as of...
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Google on Friday said its top sales executive, Johnny Chou, was resigning, indicating a possible change in direction for the Internet search company.
The departure of Chou, which had been rumored for several weeks, came amid a strengthening of leadership by Baidu.com in the Chinese search engine market and heated competition from new players, including Yahoo China and Tencent.
Chou, head of regional sales and business development and co-head of Google China alongside Li Kai-Fu, joined Google slightly more than a year ago. He previously...
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In the village of Laishui, about 100 miles southwest of China's capital city, Li De Yin runs a small workshop that seems frozen in pre-industrial time. Bare-chested workers heat copper bowls over an open-coal fire then hammer the yellow metal into hot pots, the Chinese version of fondue pots.
But walk into Li's tidy bedroom, and an ice-blue glow lights the room. It comes from a state-of-the-art personal computer whirring beside a twin-size bed, an audio and video hookup at the ready, in case Li needs to speak to a customer.
Online...
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Baidu is the China's main search engine and currently the 4th biggest website in the world. It has a market value of $3 billion and the question is: can Google and Yahoo withstand competition from Baidu, in China?
"According to CNNIC report, 62.1% users choose Baidu as their preferred search engine, representing an increase of 10 percentage in one year, while Google China’s market share decreased 8 percentage to 25.3%. In Mr. Lv’s research, Baidu gained 13% market share in last year, almost two third users use Baidu as their first...
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Baidu, China's leading web search company, reported a 174.9 per cent year-on-year rise in revenues for its most recent quarter.
The search firm holds close to half of the Chinese search market, according to analysts, and generated $24m in the quarter to 31 June.
The revenue figures represented a 41.3 per cent increase over the previous quarter. Baidu's net income also rose 65.9 per cent from the previous quarter, to $7.3m.
However, the total revenue shared by players in China's nascent online market remains tiny compared to the...
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