Baidu starting blog search engine
People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine. Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.
Google China Co-President to resign at year end
Google Inc. announced Co-President Johnny Chou ( Zhou Shaoning) will resign at the end of the year in order to pursue personal interests. Mr. Chou, Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, first joined the company in China in October 2005. Rumours have been circulating for several weeks and this announcement […]
Baidu entering Japanese market
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007. “We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. We think we can do better.” … Baidu feels it will have an advantage because […]
Wikipedia sorts out the China blocking moves
I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was wrong and none other than the founder of Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, set me straight. I won’t try to sort it out here but I do recommend you go to this entry at Wikipedia […]
China web porn king gets life sentence
Chen Hui, founder of China’s leading pornographic website, “Pornographic Summer” was sentenced to life and fined 100,000 yuan (about $12,500). Mr. Chen is only 28 years old. Eight other people involved with the site were sentenced to between 13 months and 10 years for “profitering from pornographic dissemination”. Pornographic Summer membership and that of three […]
Wikipedia blocked then unblocked again in China
Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been blocked again in China according to the Information World Review. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is now accessible throughout most of China, there are reports that is still completely blocked in certain areas of China. Wikipedia was originally blocked in October of 2005 and has been […]
China’s leading search engine Baidu reaches 52 week high
Baidu.com (BIDU), the leading Chinese language search engine, hit a new 52-week high of $108.28. Baidu’s was established in 2000 by co- founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu and the initial public offering was August 5, 2005 opening at $66 per share. Baidu recently announced a multi-year agreement with eBay’s China arm, EachNet, to cooperate […]
Baidu signs deal with eBay EachNet in China
Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese-language search engine and eBay EachNet, the Chinese arm of the online auction company Ebay, announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in advertising, on-line payment and a co-branded toolbar. According to the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, an online payment tool by eBay EachNet, as the preferred payment […]
Google to defend it's China position at UN conference
At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Google is expected to defend it’s presence in China saying that it does more good than harm since it gets more information to more people. Delegates from China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Tunisia and Vietnam will be among those attending. All of these countries have been accused […]
China search engine Zhongsou.com sued by Chinese netizen
Sun Zhongpeng, a member of the China Anti-Hooligan Software Alliance, is suing Zhongsou.com which claims to be the world’s largest Chinese language search engine. The law suit was heard in the People’s Court in Beijing’s Haidian District on October 28th. A verdict has not been reached. Sun says he downloaded and installed the Internet phone […]