The bigger story about Baidu is its new international strategy where the Chinese search giant is looking to square up to Google in mobile.
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What about Baidu.com and Sina?
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However what was really interesting to me about the Baidu cover story was a sentence in the 22nd paragraph of the story.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today eBay Inc. ( NASD: EBAY) is off about 0.5%, Baidu, Inc. ( NASD: BIDU) is down about 0.8%, and Automatic Data Processing Inc. ( NASD: ADP) is up by about 0.3%.
The consensus is currently expecting a profit of 89 cents per share from Baidu, a modest increase of about 6% over the same quarter last year.
Among the largest underlying components of GXC, in trading today Baidu ( BIDU) is up about 2.5%, and Ctrip.com International ( CTRP) is higher by about 6.3%.
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Kessler notes that data from Hitwise Experian shows Baidu as of mid-September had about 58.3% of the market, down from the low-to-mid 60s before Qihoo entered the market.
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Among the largest underlying components of GMF, in trading today Baidu Ads ( BIDU) is up about 2.2%, and Ctrip.com International Ltd ( CTRP) is higher by about 0.9%.
Among the largest underlying components of GXC, in trading today Baidu ( NASD: BIDU) is off about 1.5%, Ctrip.com International Ltd ( NASD: CTRP) is down about 1%, and Sina Corporation ( NASD: SINA) is lower by about 1.1%.
Baidu's name was inspired by a poem about searching for beauty amidst chaos.
The following are selected public comments by Baidu CEO Robin Li, translated from Chinese, about how the big Chinese Internet search company cultivates and trains talent.
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Among other factors, Baidu shares have been under pressure from growing concerns about loss of market share to Qihoo 360, the leading Web browser provider in China, which recently entered the Internet search market.
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Among the largest underlying components of GXC, in trading today Baidu, Inc. ( NASD: BIDU) is off about 0.5%, NetEase, Inc ( NASD: NTES) is down about 1.2%, and Mindray Medical International Ltd ( NYSE: MR) is lower by about 1.4%.
Among the largest underlying components of BIK, in trading today , and Baidu, Inc. ( NASD: BIDU) is higher by about 0.9%.
For a recent example of volatility in China itself, just look at Baidu, which suffered a nose-bleeding 42% plunge its shares during one stretch last year on worries about new competition.
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