Dominant in China, UCWeb Brings Its Mobile Browser to Silicon Valley

With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.
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Baidu’s Profit, Revenue Jump

Baidu Inc.’s first-quarter earnings rose 76 percent as the Chinese Internet search giant’s revenue continued to surge.

Tech Leaders Make Forbes’ Most Powerful People List

Forbes has compiled a list of the 70 most powerful individuals, and along with some of the world’s leading politicians and religious leaders, tech leaders made a strong showing.
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo

Alibaba’s CEO says he’s ready to buy all or part of Yahoo, just as soon as the company’s board figures out what it wants to do. But he says he won’t wait forever …
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China Looks at Baidu

Chinese Internet-search company Baidu Inc. said Chief Executive Robin Li met recently with two senior Chinese officials, the latest in a series of high-level official visits with Web companies as the government tries to tighten control of the sector. Meanwhile, Qunar.com Information Technology Co., a travel-search company of which Baidu owns a majority stake, said [...]

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Three Markets U.S. Internet Companies Can’t Ignore: Social, Mobile and … China

Pretty much every U.S. Internet start-up today has a social and mobile component to its business; it’s standard operating procedure in 2011.

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Baidu Profit Jumps on Customer Growth

Baidu Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter net profit nearly doubled from a year earlier as the Chinese Internet search company attracted more advertisers and as marketing customers stepped up their spending, and the company gave a better-than-expected revenue forecast for the third quarter.

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Baidu, Record Labels in Deal

Baidu Inc. reached a deal with major record labels to provide licensed copies of songs on the Chinese Internet search giant’s site, a landmark agreement that brings the music industry together with a company long accused by industry executives of abetting piracy.

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Microsoft to Provide English Search Results on Baidu

Baidu Inc. this year will start sourcing some results for users’ English-language searches from Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, the companies said Monday.

What's Really Going On With Facebook's China Plans

Facebook is eager to push out a Chinese version of its site soon, which is likely to be integrated with its larger social graph, but gated by warning messages about Chinese government monitors and censors. Let the controversy begin.