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Google, Baidu Clash with Respective Online Library Strategies

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March 8th 2007
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Google and Chinese rival Baidu are aggressively competing for the latter’s Internet market, the world’s second largest with 137 million users, by each building out their own online library services–the goal being to eventually monetize and create rev share between the media companies and the content providers. Peking University Library, which [...] more...

Baidu Receives Content License for News

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January 23rd 2007
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Chinese search mainstay Baidu can now consider itself a news portal, after the company received an Internet news content service license from the China State Council Information Office (SCIO). Baidu, often nicknamed “China’s Google”, will now be able to do its own reporting over providing aggregated news search results to Chinese [...] more...

Baidu Streams EMI

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January 16th 2007
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Chinese portal Baidu has struck a deal with indie music label EMI to stream ad-supported music to Chinese audiences. Tunes from Typhoon Music, an EMI joint venture that operates music companies in the PRC, Hong Kong and Korea, will be available for free to Baidu users through a special “EMI Music [...] more...

Baidu Turning Japanese

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December 4th 2006
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Baidu, one of China’s leading Internet search companies, has announced its intention to break into the Japanese market next year after six months of Japanese language search technology studies. “We believe that our proven strength in non-English language search, the high internet penetration in Japan, as well as similarities between the [...] more...

MTV Exporting Pimped Rides To China

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October 17th 2006
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MTV Networks and Baidu (aka “the Google of China”), have announced a partnership to offer more than 15,000 music videos, mostly from Chinese artists, and TV shows like the Chinese-language version of the “Pimp My Ride” car overhaul show to Chinese Internet users. MTV and Baidu will charge for some [...] more...

HP Can Baidu

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July 25th 2006
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PC manufacturer HP has announced that starting on October, all HP Pavilion and HP Presario PC’s sold in mainland China will come with Baidu configured as the default search engine. Baidu is currently the leading search engine in China, with a commanding 44% lead over both Yahoo and Google. Baidu [...] more...

Baidu Turns to Blogging

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June 29th 2006
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Chinese internet portal Baidu will be launching Baidu Space, an online blogging service similar to Microsoft’s MSN Spaces or Google’s Blogger. Still, Baidu is being coy about specific details. “There’s a product named Baidu Space. I can’t describe the product or give a date, except that it will be very [...] more...

Baidu Cozies Up to Intel China

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April 13th 2006
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Intel China Ltd, a subsidiary of silicon chip innovator Intel Corporation, and Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search engine, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in the development of Internet search and related applications in China. According to the MOU, the two parties will cooperate in advancing [...] more...

Baidu’s Earnings Rise, Thanks to Ads

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February 22nd 2006
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One of Google China’s main competitors in the Chinese search industry, Baidu.com, has reported a nearly four-fold increase in revenue for the 4th quarter of 2005. They attribute the increase to both a rise in search traffic, and an increase in search advertising. Income rose to $14.2 million, with $13.8 [...] more...

Google Setting Pace in Chinese Market

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January 18th 2006
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A new study shows that the word Google has as much power in the Chinese marketplace as it does here in the US. According to Reuters, performance research firm Keynote Systems conducted a monthlong survey of 1,200 Chinese Web users and found that in 11 of 13 categories (which included general, [...] more...


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