Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, and stated that as its tax rate increased, so did its profit.
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. signed a digital music distribution deal in China with a company backed by Universal Music, Warner Music, and Sony Music.
China-based Xunlei Limited, a digital media content platform, announced it plans to sell 7.6 million American Depositary Shares in its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
Chinese search engine Baidu.com announced that is plans to make a USD306 million investment in Qunar.com, a Chinese travel search engine.
Google says a likely phishing attack from Jinan has targeted hundreds of its Gmail email users.
United States Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the chairman of China’s largest Internet search engine, asking for more transparency and greater adherence to human rights.
Chinese Internet community website Tianya.cn has announced that it completed a buy-back of a stake previous held by Google, which invested in Tianya.cn in 2007, and the company now plans to start expanding into the overseas markets by opening offices in Singapore and the U.S. in the first half of 2011.
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.
According to reports in local Chinese media, the recruitment website Zhaopin.com and the interactive entertainment group Oak Pacific have jointly launched a new business-oriented social networking site, Jingwei.com, in China.
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.
Following the re-establishment of its Beijing research and development center in 2009, Yahoo has recently set up its seventh research institute in Beijing.
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”.
Kingsoft Network, the Chinese company established by the merger of Kingsoft Internet Security Software Holdings Limited and Keniu Network, has announced plans to invest CNY30 million in a project named “Cloud Shield”, and it will formally open the API of its cloud security platform to partners.
Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. has launched the internal beta version of its new media player product.
Chinese online media company Sohu.com Inc. reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, and said that while wireless revenues fell, online game and search engine revenues increased.
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.
Search engine Ask.com, a wholly owned business of IAC, is halting operations at its office in Hangzhou.
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.
Search engine giant Google has announced that it will terminate the agency qualifications of seven Chinese advertising agents and the termination agreement will become effective from October 27, 2010, according to reports in foreign media.
Microsoft’s search engine product Bing has formed an alliance with Shenzhen Winhi.net to jointly promote Bing in China.
According to a 8-K form submitted by Sohu.com to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chinese business-to-business e-commerce company Alibaba.com will invest USD15 million to acquire a 10% stake in Sogou.com, a subsidiary of Sohu.com.
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.
The share price of China’s top online travel website, Ctrip.com, tumbled almost 14% today as word leaked that Chinese airlines were slashing commissions to Chinese travel agents.
