Google has threatened to withdraw from China after a cyber attack out of China tried to break into the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. They also targeted twenty other companies. In a blog post Google said it experienced a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure, with the probes originating from China” […]

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Baidu, China’s leading search engine announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with China Unicom to provide wireless search. China Unicom is the country’s second largest cell phone operator with 141 million mobile users. China Telecom, the largest cell phone operator has 450 million users.
In May, Baidu reached a deal to provide search service […]

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According to Danwei, a popular Chinese media, advertising, and urban life blog, the following sites are now blocked in China. Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Live and Bing. It appears that Bing, the new Microsoft search engine is being blocked because it is “autoplaying Youtube videos when you put your mouse over them.” Kaiser Kuo, digital […]

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Employees from Baidu’s South China subsidiary went on strike protesting changes to the new salary system which became effective May 1 of this year as reported by 163.com. The employees signed a new salary agreement in late April and are claiming they didn’t fully understand it. They began protesting in front of Guangzhou’s Tianhe District […]

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A set of internal working documents from the censorship department at Baidu, China’s largest search engine, were recently leaked. These documents are quickly appearing on blogs, forums and across the internet both in China and around the world. A China Digital Times post includes a comprehensive list of the websites that are being censored […]

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Baidu (BIDU), China’s leading search engine reported first-quarter net income grew 24%. Baidu’s total revenues in the first quarter of 2009 were CNY810.7 million (USD 118.76 million), a 41.1% increase from the corresponding period in 2008. Net income for the quarter was CNY181.1 million (USD 26.5 million), a 23.5% increase from the corresponding period in […]

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Baidu.com, China’s leading search engine company, has been accused of being a monopoly by the Tangshan Renren Information Service Company (TRISC) who is demanding more than 1.1 million renminbi (USD $160,000) in compensation. The suit was opened at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on April 22, 2009. Baidu refused an out of court […]

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Baidu.com, the world’s leading Chinese search, launched a specially designed search engine for seniors. The search engine which is more like a portal is named named “Baidu Elderly Search” in Chinese. The design helps older users by emphasizing clicking on links as opposed to entering characters. It is a clean design with large fonts and […]

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Baidu, the world’s largest Chinese search engine, announced the opening of a Shanghai research and development center to implement the “Aladdin Plan” in order to identifying the ‘Hidden Web’. The Hidden Web, also know as ‘Deepnet’ or, the ‘Invisible Web’ is content that is not currently indexed by search engines. This area of the […]

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Google recently opened ads to beer and now hard liquor ads will be allowed in January. The liquor advertisers can only buy ads on Google that are directed to the liquor manufacturers site. According to a Google rep in Asia when asked about liquor ads in Asia;
‘Google is only relaxing the policy in countries […]

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Robin Li, CEO of the world’s leading Chinese search engine Baidu, will be the keynote speaker at ad:tech. ad:tech, a global interactive marketing event, will be held in Shanghai, Novermber 25 - 26, 2008 at the Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center. Day 2 keynote speakers will be Harry Hui, Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo […]

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Accoona, a b2b search engine, was recently acquired by the Masterseek, a global business search engine. “Masterseek is a virtual showroom to search out business information about others and to guide and update the information available on your own company.”
Accoona launched in 2004 with great fanfare including having former US President Bill […]

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Baidu, the world’s leading Chinese search engine, officially launched their consumer to consumer e-commerce platform “Youa”. Baidu has their own branded online payment system called BaiFuBao, to make purchases on Youa. Youa was previously available to 10,000 pre-approved sellers and 50,000 participants in closed beta testing.
Youa will compete with current C2C marketplace leader Alibaba’s […]

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The largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, was found guilty of “a breach of reasonable standard of care” by the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court. The case involved a transportation company, Dazhong Banchang, whose company name was used in advertisements from another company. Baidu argued that it is only the advertiser and since it did […]

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China has apparently blocked access to YouTube.com after video clips appeared on the website showing massive pro-independence protests in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Internet users that were trying to access YouTube were served a blank screen.
This isn’t the first time YouTube has been blocked in China. The last time was during the 17th Communist […]

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According to estimates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Beijing research firm BDA and the online market anlayst Nielsen/NetRatings, China has overtaken the US in the number of internet users at around 220 million. These numbers were estimated based on the online growth of 53.3% in 2007. The number on online users is […]

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Omniture Inc., a leading provider of online business software, announced they will provide Baidu.com, the leading Chinese Internet search engine, technology to measure online marketing campaigns. According to the companies, combining their technologies will allow marketers the ability to analyze how Chinese Internet users are influenced by online marketing.
International companies use Omniture to optimize […]

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comScore, Inc., an internet research firm, recently released the Worldwide Search Top 10 report. Two of China’s search properties, Baidu.com and Alibaba.com ranked third and tenth resectively in that report. It was the first time Alibaba made the list with 0.8 percent of the the 66.2 billion searches conducted worldwide in December of 2007. […]

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The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non profit state network information center founded in 1997, recently released its year end report on development of the Internet in China. Based on that report the number of Chinese Internet users reached 210 million in 2007. This was an increase of more than 73 million over […]

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