Chinese Internet search engine company Baidu.com announced last week that it has started business adjustments concerning its Youa platform, and the consumer-to-consumer business of the platform will be closed in one month.
Li Guoqing, joint president of the Chinese Internet shopping website Dangdang.com, has announced that the company will stop putting advertisements on search engine Baidu.com from April 2011 due to the recent accusation that Baidu.com is involved in literature and music piracy.
Chinese Internet real estate information service provider Anjuke.com has completed its first round of financing in which strategic investors led by Baidu.com invested combined capital of USD50 million into the website.
Chinese search engine Baidu.com and an e-commerce subsidiary of Alibaba, Taobao.com, have just been placed on the United States Trade Representative’s “Notorious Markets List”.
Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. has launched the internal beta version of its new media player product.
Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. has announced in an internal email that it has promoted Wang Mengqiu and Zhu Guang as its vice presidents.
Chinese Internet companies Kingsoft and Tencent have announced their intentions to join Baidu’s recently launched campaign to make the Chinese Internet a safer place.
Unlike its overseas rival Google.com, Chinese search engine Baidu.com is apparently showing that it is fully committed to working with the Chinese government to enhance the government’s ability to rid the Internet of “bad”information.
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. posted a 76.4% revenue increase as the company announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010.
China’s first mobile phone platform for blind people has been formally launched via Baidu.com’s search engine open platform, aiming to help the blind make phone calls, send messages, and even surf the mobile Internet more easily.
A representative from the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has confirmed to the local media that the company’s new software search service has been launched for beta testing and will be officially opened on September 2, 2010.
Zhongguancun Cloud Computing Industry Alliance has been set up as a measure for Beijing’s construction of a world-class cloud computing industry base.
China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has published its review comments for the Class A mapping qualification on its official website and has approved 13 companies, including Baidu.com and Sogou.com, to operate Internet map services in China.
Google.com, which has failed to gain momentum in China against rivals like Baidu.com, has issued a statement that it will end its automatic redirect to its Hong Kong website.
The B2B2C joint venture established by the Chinese search engine company Baidu and the Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten has announced that it has formally adopted the Chinese name “Le Ku Tian” as the brand name of its online service platform Rakuten.com.cn, which is currently opened to e-commerce vendors for registration.
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. might be reaping the benefits of Google’s China capitulation as Baidu announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010, and showed a 59.6% revenue increase year-over-year.
Three months after Baidu’s announcement of its plan to set up a joint venture with the Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten, the JV was formally founded in Beijing’s Tongzhou district last week.
Song Zhongjie, Google China’s general manager for sales resigned on April 16, 2010, and will reportedly join the Chinese lifestyle website Aibang.com as president.
Chinese video website Youku.com has launched an independent video search website Soku.com, which allows users to search for videos on Youku.com as well as those on other websites.
According to an insider from the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com, Wang Jin, former vice director of Google China Engineering Research Institute, will join Baidu.com as vice president for technology, making him the first top Google China executive to join Baidu.com in recent months.
With Google’s prospects in China greatly diminished, search engine rival Baidu has seized the opportunity to push its online supremacy higher with the unveiling of an enhanced translation tool.
Qiyi.com, the independently operated video website created by the Chinese search engine Baidu Inc, has launched its beta test and is now open to invited users.
Chinese Internet search engine firm Baidu.com and the School of International Business of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou have jointly announced the launch of an elective course in search engine marketing.
Chinese social networking site Renren.com and the South Korean electronics company Samsung have announced in Beijing that the two companies have reached cooperation and will jointly create a social networking service ecosphere based on products of both parties.
Information from an internal meeting of MSN China revealed that Chen Xiao, vice president of sales for MSN China, has resigned and will start his own business in the Chinese Internet sector.
The public relations department of Chinese search engine Baidu.com has confirmed to local media that Li Mingyuan, general manager for Baidu.com’s Internet shopping branch Baidu Youa, is departing the company for personal reasons.
Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has recently adjusted the policies of its Baidu Alliance and will stop business cooperation with some members.
Amidst news of a major security breach and the fleeing of its chief technology officer, Chinese search engine Baidu.com has managed to post increased profit for the end of 2009.
