We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…

Baidu’s determination to get a piece of the action in China’s fast-growing mobile market has yielded plans for an app store and mobile platform of its own, Baidu Yi, based on Android; and now we are getting more details on the second part of the equation: the devices.

Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), the search-portal provider and “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) of China,” has made a key move into the world of mobile today: it is launching its own app store, to be called “Baidu Yi,” which will be available on Google’s Android OS. The move comes after months of speculation…

Sina (NSDQ: SINA) may have taken the crown in the Twitter-style, homegrown microblogging race in China, but its leadership has come at a price. The Chinese internet and mobile company today reported that Q2 profit was down by more than 60 percent compared to the same period a year ago—caused…

Chinese internet search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) reported a 95 percent increase in net income on Monday, beating Wall Street expectations and sending the company’s shares up nearly seven percent in after-hours trading. Baidu said strong traffic growth and increased ad spending powered the blockbuster results, which came amid fears…

While everyone’s attention was focused on Spotify finally launching services in the U.S., another online music milestone has been reached on the other side of the world. China’s search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), long accused of aiding and abetting music piracy, has finally inked a deal with major music labels…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has had its ups and downs in China, and that presents a ripe opportunity for its competitors, both in China and closer to home in the U.S. Today, it is being reported that the Chinese search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) has signed a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ:…

Last month, the music industry, which had previously lost a piracy case against Chinese search site Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), went public with further complaints. Now, Baidu “will launch a licensed music search service in May”, Reuters reports, citing Baidu’s spokesperson.

It’s been rumored for a while now that China’s Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is keen to follow rival search giant Google (NSDQ: GOOG) into the smartphone space with its own operating system for mobiles and tablets, a la Android. Now, we have some more details on what that could look like,…

Chinese real estate site Anjuke is getting a huge influx of cash in part thanks to Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU). The search engine has led a $50 million funding round in the company, which bills itself as the most popular online marketplace for used homes in China. Its flagship site gets…

It now seems all but official that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will pull its search operations in China; Chinese media says Google will make an announcement Monday and the search engine could shut down as soon as April 10. The likely big winner in all of this: Baidu, which currently controls…

Chinese search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) says it has received a $50 million investment from Providence Equity Partners to start an online video subsidiary. Rafat was able to confirm reports that a deal for a Hulu-like service was in the final stages early last month. At the time, Baidu was…

Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), the Chinese search giant which stands to gain the most if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) goes ahead and pulls out of China, had a standout fourth quarter, as it completed the roll-out of its new Phoenix Nest ad system and benefited from an uptick in online ad spending.…

A Beijing court has cleared Chinese search giant Baidu of copyright infringement suits brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents the major record labels. The court’s judgment was simply that the search engine had not broken rules by linking to unauthorized music downloads. In the…

Updated below: The professional online video scene in China is now heating up, after a few years of fevered activity on the user-gen video side (with lots of pirated professional online video as well): now, after announcements by Chinese portal biggies like Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU) and Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA), search…

Thanks to the relative growth of China’s economy, the country’s dominant search-engine company Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) hasn’t been hurting in terms of revenue and profits the last few quarters. But that doesn’t mean everything has been going smoothly for Baidu, the WSJ says. The company, which has 62 percent of…

Baidu, which already controls 64 percent of the search market in China, is now targeting senior citizens. Last month, the search engine launched a specialty site, “Baidu elderly search,” which boasts bigger font sizes as well as links on its home page to sites that older people might like, such…

This week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) officially launched Google Music, its most significant effort yet to eat into Baidu’s dominance of the search market there, since so many searches on Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) are for free music. Google Music promises to offer both higher-quality and legal downloads than Baidu, which links…

Boosted by increased usage during the Beijing Olympics, Chinese search engine Baidu’s Q3 profits came in at $51.2 million (347.9 million yuan), or $1.47 per share, up 91 percent from last year’s $24.2 million (181.7 million yuan). Revenues increased by 85 percent, to $135.4 million (919.1 million yuan), from $66.3…