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Baidu Charts: Short Trade Sets Up

The Street (Free subscription) | yesterday

A short position at an average price around $415 to $420 makes the risk to reward outstanding.

Baidu.com's 7,000 Employees Move To New Offices

ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

According to reports in local media, Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has started to relocate its employees from the current Potevio Plaza in Zhongguancun to its new office building, Baidu Plaza, in Shangdi, Beijing. Baidu.com reportedly started the relocation on November 5, 2009 and during the following week, its employees in Ideal International Plaza in Zhongguancun [...]

TMV EXCLUSIVE: Qtrax Shareholders Threaten Action

The Music Void (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

TMV was approached by some Qtrax shareholders. So Jakomi Mathews examines the recently announced deal with Baidu as well as previous Qtrax transgressions...

QTrax: Another little fib?

No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

The team at QTrax continue to delight with what can only be a prankster's approach to business. The world has been watching for a couple of years as they send out releases announcing something or other, only for a clarification to follow in a few days that reveals that, actually, the deals with the major labels they said they had weren't in place, or it's taking a little longer to get the music on...

China's Baidu Qualifies Partnership with Music Service Qtrax

Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Los Angeles - Chinese search giant Baidu (NASD: BIDU) has issued a statement indicating that it will not in fact be directing users searching for music on the site to ad-supported downloads available from U.S.-based Qtrax -- as that company announced earlier this week, IDG News Service reported. "The partnership with Qtrax regards text-based information, such as singer backgrounds; it has nothing...

Baidu Deal May be First Step in Linking to Licensed Music

PC World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

UPDATE: Baidu did not fully confirm a statement by music provider Qtrax that it will indeed start linking to licensed music downloads.

• China's Baidu may not link to licensed music after all - The Industry Standard

Google's Music Service In China Attracting Advertisers

WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Google's music service in China hasn't achieved much so far; no one should look for Google's next quarterly financial report to say it's brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or toppled Baidu. But neither has it failed, and one person who's close to the service recently indicated that it's picking up steam. Gary Chen is close by merit of being the founder and CEO of Orca Digital. Orca...

China's Baidu May Not Link to Licensed Music After All

PC World (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Baidu did not make clear whether it will indeed start linking to licensed music downloads after music provider Qtrax said it had reached a deal with Baidu.

• China's Baidu may not link to licensed music after all - The Industry Standard

Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region

WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region conducted a record 38.6 billion searches in September, with searchers averaging nearly 88 queries per person, according to a new report from comScore. Google sites ranked as the top search destination with nearly 17 billion searches on its sites during the month, representing a 44.1 percent share of all searches in the region. Baidu landed in the second spot...

Qtrax gets Baidu deal for Chinese launch

Music Ally (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Can ad-supported downloads firm Qtrax make a go of it second time round? Having announced plans for its rollout across Asia, the company now has a significant deal to back it up.

Google Voice Search now in China, in Mandarin

Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

If you've got a Nokia S60 series and happen to speak Chinese, you can now use Google voice search on your mobile in China. The new service, the first non-English voice search Google has released, is one of many recent attempts to wrestle some more of the market away from current leader Baidu . According to the company, it works best with sharper Mandarin accents ( Beijingers might have a little more...

Google unveils mobile voice search in Chinese

People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

US search engine Google Inc yesterday launched a Chinese-language voice search service, in an effort to lure users from domestic rival Baidu Inc in the world's largest mobile market. The new service is expected to help Chinese users use Google's existing search services such as Web search and Google Maps via mobile phones. Google said the Chinese version voice search is currently only available for...

Baidu.com 2008 Annual Report

Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Dear Shareholders, 2008 was a year of exciting developments in Baidu's business on many fronts. It was also a year of meeting - and overcoming - new challenges, both internally and externally. We understand that as a rapidly growing company in a nascent industry we must be flexible and prepared to evolve in the face of unexpected challenges such as those we experienced over the last year. I can say...

Baidu Partners With Qtrax For Ad-Supported Music Downloads

Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Baidu ( NSDQ: BIDU )—which has come under fire for linking to illegal music downloads—is partnering with ad-supported music download service Qtrax to change that. The Chinese search engine says it will direct music-related search queries from its entertainment portal and music sites to Qtrax, when Qtrax has a track in its catalog. The deal is a coup for Qtrax, since Baidu dominates China’s...

Qtrax Legal Download Service Inks Deal with China's Baidu

Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Los Angeles - Qtrax, the provider of an ad-supported, legal song download service, on Monday announced a deal with Baidu (NASD: BIDU) , China's leading search engine, that will see users searching for songs or artists on Baidu directed to Qtrax. read more

• Qtrax Announces Partnership With Baidu - PR News Wire

Google Losing In China As New Users Go To Baidu

konaxis.net | 10/12/2009

Google's share of the online search market in China has slipped this year and will continue falling because Baidu is more popular among new Web users in the country, a government report said late Monday, reported IDG News Service. Google was the first-choice search engine for just 12.7 percent of search users at the end of last month, a fall of 3.9 percentage points from last year, according to a report...

Google, square one for future venture capital leaders?

Peter Brooke | 04/13/2009

Another Google executive has left the nest to join a venture capital firm. Top Google sales executive for Asia-Pacific and Latin America Sukinder Singh Cassidy has accepted the position of C.E.O.-in-residence at Accel. Accel is the venture firm behind Facebook, MetroPCS and Baidu, where Cassidy will work with companies in Accel’s digital media and advertising portfolio and evaluate new investments-potentially...