Baidu.com considers China listing
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China's Internet search leader  Baidu.com Inc. is considering a domestic listing, a step toward  advancing its long-term aim to acquire search engine-related  companies, a senior executive said on Saturday.
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The Shanghai Stock Exchange has reiterated plans to bolster its fledgling bourse by attracting heavyweight Chinese companies to list at home this year, state press reported Tuesday.
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Goldman Sachs (GS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is considering a tender offer for all shares in Takefuji Corp. (8564.T: Quote, Profile, Research) , Japan&#39;s
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Web search leader Google Inc. and its  top rival in China Baidu.com Inc. are racing to build out their  online library services as they battle for a slice of the  world's second-largest Internet market.
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu.com  Inc. has set up a partnership with popular Chinese-language  record label Rock Music Groupto provide an online music  streaming service.
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The financial giant is in talks to sell a stake to a Chinese bank and other investors, people briefed on the plan said.
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Beijing, June 27 (Jiji Press)--China's leading Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc. has named former Sony Corp.  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Nobuyuki Idei as outside board director.  Idei took the post on June 14, Baidu said.
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An analyst downgrades Baidu at the expense of Google. Irony at 11.
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Search engine Baidu.com Inc. said Friday its third-quarter profits more than doubled on strong traffic growth despite search giant Google Inc.'s efforts to expand in China.
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InfoWorld - Baidu.com&#160;on Friday said its not planning to expand into Europe, following&#160;reports&#160;that China&#39;s largest search engine would announce such plans later this month.
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Google Inc plans to enter the online  music market in China for the first time, as it steps up its  battle with local incumbent Baidu.com Inc, media reported on  Thursday.
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A 30 percent stake in Hewlett-Packard&#39;s Chinese operations is up for sale to the highest bidder as the company&#39;s Chinese partner looks to sell its shares.In a filing (in Chinese) with the China Beijing Equity Exchange, state-owned China Electronics Import &amp; Export Co. (CEIEC) invited bids for its stake in China HP and set a minimum price of 967 million yuan ($133 million).CEIEC will accept bids until Feb. 2 from qualified Chinese companies. Offers from financial institutions or hedge funds will not be considered, it said.HP had little to say in response to CEIEC&#39;s offer, but reaffirmed the importance of China HP to its overall business.&quot;China is a critically important market to HP and continues to hold tremendous opportunities for our business. ... Whilst we do not comment on our financial or operational plans in the future, HP will ensure its business operations remain unaffected,&quot; wrote Joanne Tan, a company spokeswoman, in an e-mail.China HP was founded in 1985 as a joint venture between HP and CEIEC. Over the years, the joint venture has been successful and China HP is a major player in key local markets, such as PCs and servers.Joint ventures are a common way of doing business in China, with foreign companies tapping the experience and connections of a local partner.In the best situations, these partnerships can help the foreign company build and grow their business in China faster than would otherwise be possible.
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(InfoWorld) - Google may be steadilyÂ losing market shareÂ in China to rival Baidu.com, but the company is not giving up, adding several new features to its Google.cn search engine, including some capabilities that are not available on Google.com. The Google.cn search engine was launched by Google in early 2006. The search engine, whichÂ culls search resultsÂ that might offend the Chinese government's censors, was created to help Google grow faster in China, where the company's main search engine, Google.com, is sometimes slow or unavailable. There was just one problem with this strategy: most of Google's Chinese users still prefer to use Google.com, which also offers the ability to search the Web in Chinese, instead of Google.cn. That hasn't discouraged Google, which in recent months has steadily added new features to Google.cn, such as the ability to search Chinese Web sites using Pinyin, a romanization system for characters that allows Chinese words to be spelled out using the Roman alphabet. That capability, already available from Baidu, allows users to search using Chinese without having to switch from English to Chinese input systems. Searching on Google.cn for 'zhong guo,' which means 'China,' still returns a list of results containing these words. But like Baidu, the Web site also asks if you want to search for 'China' using Chinese characters. Clicking on that link brings a user to another page of results for the Chinese characters 'zhong guo,' which also includes links to a couple of news stories. In addition to allowing users to search for Pinyin, Google.cn now has an auto-complete compatibility, introduced in January, similar to the company's Google Suggest service. This feature suggests possible search terms on Google.cn when letters or characters are entered -- a feature that you won't find on Baidu or the main Google.com search engine. Typing 'zho' into the search field on Google.cn now yields a list of search terms in Chinese characters, including 'China Mobile,' 'Bank of China,' and 'China maps,' among others, along with the number of results available for each term. Ironically, the top search result on Google.cn for 'China maps' is Sougou Map Search, a service offered by rival Sohu.com Inc., that competes with Google.cn's own localized map service, which was launched earlier this month. Whether the addition of these features will help reverse Google's fortunes in China remains to be seen. The search engine's popularity has fallen steadily over the last year, even among the older and more affluent Internet users that the company once considered its strongest base. (Steven Schwankert, in Beijing, contributed to this story.)
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There could still be a way to go in China's frothy equity markets.
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InfoWorld - Baidu.com, China&#39;s most popular search engine, reportedly plans to announce details of a European expansion later this month.
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You may be more invested in China than you thought -- now or very soon.
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News Corp.'s  MySpace.com is  in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with  Boston technology trade publisher International Data Group's  Chinese venture arm and former China Netcom Group Corp.   Chief Executive Edward Tian, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Friday.