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Keynote to undertake China search engines study

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”) a provider of e-business performance management services will undertake a study of China’s rapidly growing and highly competitive search engine market. The study will evalute Yahoo! China, Baidu, Google China and Sohu/Sogou incorporating 1,200 Chinese Internet users. This is a huge undertaking and the first of its kind, although Keynote has […]

China's Baidu.com sees shares drop as profits rise

Baidu.com saw nearly triple sales growth but watched its stock prices drop over concerns that they were rising too quickly. Baidu entered the stock market in August and saw it shares open at $27, trade as high as $153, but is trading today at $69. Goldman Sachs analyst, Anthony Noto said earlier this year in […]

Google corrects map listing to Taiwan

Goolge map services had previously listed Taiwan as a province of China creating an uproar in Taiwan and protests from legislators and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Google has has now changed that listing to read “Taiwan”. Google explained its usages came from internationally authoritative sources, to be consistent. The United Nations, for example, […]

Singapore uses sedition act to prosecute bloggers

Three ethnic Chinese were accused of making racist remarks on the Internet against members of the Malay community and will be charged under the Sedition Act. This is apparently the first time modern Singapore has used the Sedition Act since it gained independence from Malaysia in 1965. The Sedition Act is being used to publicize […]