The combined resources of Rakuten and Baidu should prove to be a stiff test for Taobao.
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Sina, for example, is emerging as a serious competitor to Tencent and Baidu in China.
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With the success of companies like Google and Baidu.com, there is increasing interest in incubators.
Some of China's most successful companies, including NetEase and Baidu, received foreign capital this way.
Jim Oberweis just sold VistaPrint after a triple and Baidu after a 625% gain.
The result is Chinese internet companies like Tencent, and Baidu, cannot help but become world leaders.
We looked at Google and Yahoo, Microsoft and Baidu, and we think the Yahoo has the best technology.
And by competing with Ebay and Google and Baidu and the other companies, I think we learn a lot.
The convenience of China's Tudou and Baidu makes them strong competitors to foreign rivals like YouTube and Google.
Since Monday, Sina is up 13.19%, Sohu is up 8.08% and Baidu is up 5.08% as of the close on Thursday.
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Among the largest underlying components of BIK, in trading today , and Baidu, Inc. ( NASD: BIDU) is higher by about 0.9%.
Those stocks, predominantly tech, include VMware, Netflix, SanDisk, Apple and Baidu.
Two of the biggest surprises this year have come out of the Chinese Internet sector: SINA (SINA) and Baidu (BIDU), up 78% and 47% YTD respectively.
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With such customers out there Nokia has a historic opportunity to become synonymous with the Web much the way Google, Yahoo and Baidu are for millions now.
The partnership marks the first time Baidu has signed such an agreement with a global operator, and supports Orange and Baidu's aim to make the mobile web available for all in emerging markets.
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The new Orange and Baidu browser offers a highly customisable but simple interface for customers in AMEA, enabling them to access web-based apps and internet services unique to Baidu and Orange, as well as services like Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter, amongst others.
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Look at the market value of internet franchises like Facebook, Google and Baidu, not that their headmen collect art early on, but sooner or later they turn out sometime collectors like Bill Gates, but not the media honcho of Mexico, Carlos Slim, who works hard giving away his wealth.
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That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.
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"Online video is a key strategic vertical for Baidu as user numbers and time-spend continue to increase exponentially, underscoring the tremendous potential in the sector, " said Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu.
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And the price of gold, or the politics in Washington, have no impact on whether or not Shanghai locals are going to buy smartphones and go to Baidu to search, and Sina and Tencent sites to maintain relationships with friends.
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This past quarter, the analyst consensus grossly underestimated the operating momentum of Apple, Baidu and Amazon.
It is a partnership between Baidu and Providence EquityPartners, an investor in Hulu.
Other features will probably persist, for example the dominance of three digital conglomerates, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users.
Chinese search giant Baidu and France Telecom are collaborating on a browser for low-end smartphones sold in Africa.
Baidu and Providence expect the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.
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