Google sells stake in Baidu
News Google has unloaded its stake in Chinese Internet search company Baidu. The search giant has sold its 749,625 Baidu shares, which it purchased for $5m (£2.75m), to concentrate on expanding its own operations in China, including Google.cn, Google...
[June 23, 2006, 14:35]
Google sells stake in Baidu
Talkback In that way, the Baidu buy-in was a good way to hedge or excel their much needed .cn expansion. Bye-bye Baidu.www.futureprogress.net Interesting. I suppose the initial buy-in was to obtain specific interest and the information that would flow from...
[June 24, 2006, 0:06]
China accused of rerouting search-engine traffic
News Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines operated by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, to home-grown Baidu. According to various reports online, some online users in China attempting to access Google.com...
[October 22, 2007, 8:13]
Yahoo makes billion dollar China move
News Yahoo is paying $1bn (£600m) for 40 percent of Chinese Web auctioneer Alibaba.com, taking on eBay and search firm Baidu.com as it extends its reach in the world's second-biggest Internet market. The deal comes as interest in China's Internet...
[August 11, 2005, 16:30]
Google trials Chinese business search site
News A rival search engine in China, Baidu.com, already offers a local search service. Google has lost market share in China to Baidu due to the latter's popularity among young Internet users, according to a report published by the China Internet...
[September 5, 2005, 18:15]
Sun to snap up MySQL for $1bn
News Acquiring MySQL also gives Sun entry to customers that may be interested in buying more equipment and software; MySQL counts Facebook, Google, Nokia and Baidu as customers. Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open...
[January 16, 2008, 13:27]
Yahoo matches Gmail gigabyte - but only in China
News Earlier this year, Google invested in Chinese search engine Baidu.com and launched its advertising product called AdWords in the Chinese language. Yahoo has increased the storage limit of its free email service tenfold in China, but users elsewhere...
[July 29, 2004, 16:30]
Google: Microsoft lawsuit could harm us in China
News Besides Microsoft, Google also has to contend with fast-growing Chinese search company Baidu.com. Losing the services of Kai-Fu Lee for the rest of this year would have a profound effect on Google's recruiting efforts in China, the search engine...
[September 1, 2005, 10:35]
Downadup worm infects 3.5m PCs
News Downadup] uses a complicated algorithm which changes daily and is based on timestamps from public websites such as Google.com and Baidu.com," Hyppönen wrote. The 'Downadup' worm is spreading quickly and now infects more than 3.5 million PCs...
[January 15, 2009, 13:20]
Google bows to Chinese censorship
News Google is opening a research and development centre in China and owns a stake in Baidu.com, one of the other most popular search engines in that country. Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news Web sites in China that...
[January 25, 2006, 7:25]
Yahoo's founder responds to China criticism
News Yahoo, Google and Baidu, followed by 30 to 40 start-ups, according to Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be...
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Google's censorship struggles continue in China
News Google is the second-most widely used search engine in China, behind Baidu. Upon entering the market, it made sure to include a disclaimer (like the one above) alongside search results for sensitive queries, something even Baidu does now.
[June 17, 2009, 14:41]
Google: Time for world domination?
News Arnold's research goes well beyond speculation that Google will buy Chinese portal Baidu.com, in which it already owns a small stake, or move further into the soon-to-explode VoIP market, beyond its voice chat-enabled Google Talk instant-messaging...
[September 21, 2005, 17:40]
Yahoo, stand firm!
Talkback Else where; in china for example, Google are not even the number one search engine (baidu is). I believe these comments are just intended to dampen the spirits of the Yahoo board, I don’t think Microsoft would walk away so easily.
[February 19, 2008, 17:47]
Yahoo, Google 'irresponsible' in China
News Such sites disappear from the Chinese language version of Yahoo and a Yahoo-parented search engine, Yisou, while a local search engine that Google now owns a share of, Baidu, also censors its results.
[July 27, 2004, 16:45]
