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 Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has launched a new handwriting input method for its Internet search engine service.
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.
China’s leading travel search engine Kuxun.cn announced it has reached a strategic cooperation with Kaixin001.com, the famous social networking service provider in China, saying the two will work together to expand online travel business opportunities.
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.
Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com has announced the official launch of the new 2.0 edition of its Sogou browser.
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.
With the slogan of “Soso knows you better”, the Chinese Internet company Tencent has announced plans to set up its fifth major business division for the development of search engine services in 2010.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, an association based in Beijing comprised of journalists representing non-Chinese media, has issued an alert because some of its members have reportedly had their email accounts hacked.
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.
As news that Tom Online has ended its relationship with Google, the Chinese Internet community Tianya.cn has now announced that as a result of Google’s relocation of its Chinese business from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong, Tianya.cn will suspend cooperation of several projects with Google.
Google is now redirecting users from its mainland China website to its Hong Kong website as “a sensible solution to the challenges” the company faces.
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.
It may sound like an illness in China, but Microsoft is aiming at Chinese mobile phone users with a new deal to include its Bing.com search engine on Motorola Android phones sold in the country.
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.
According to local media reports, rival Chinese video websites Youku.com and Tudou.com have formed an alliance and jointly launched a new online video joint broadcast model, sharing the copyright of each other’s exclusive videos.
Chinese search engine company Baidu has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the municipal government of Shenzhen, marking the comprehensive launch of Baidu’s investment project in the city.
Days after it was reportedly attacked by Iranian hackers and the company’s chief technology officer quit, Chinese search engine Baidu.com has tried to change its wayward momentum with a newly inked joint venture with a Japanese e-commerce website.
Motorola has announced plans to open an Android applications store, Shop4Apps, in China to further meet the demands of Chinese consumers.
