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Innovations And Acquisitions: Baidu’s Moves In 2014
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) was able to set itself apart from many of its competitors in 2014 in two primary ways. The first was the high emphasis on innovation that has led to several new products. Secondly, the company’s acquisitive nature has op...
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Baidu Continues Its Good Run In 2014 Into The Third Quarter
Chinese Internet search pioneer Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) continued its good run into Q3 2014 by posting a very healthy set of numbers. It met the Bloomberg Businessweek analysts consensus estimate of $ 2.2 billion in quarterly revenues. On the earnin...
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Revenue Per Customer In Focus As Baidu Prepares To Release Q3 Earnings
Last quarter, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) got much kudos from analysts for coming out with superlative second quarter results.. Baidu will release its third quarter earnings report on October 29th after market close. In this article we reflect on how it...
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Chinese Internet This Week: Baidu’s New Moves
This Chinese Internet note looks at Baidu’s (NASDAQ: BIDU) new business and technology forays over the past week. Baidu announced the release of a faster and lighter version of its anit-virus. It is also developing an operating system for s...
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How Can Baidu Grow Its Group-Buying Business?
China’s online search giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) first entered the group buying business in August 2013 by acquiring 59% of group buying business Nuomi from Renren (NYSE: RENN) for $160 million. In January this year, Baidu acquired the res...
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An Update On The Baidu-BMW Driver-less Car Deal As Further Details Emerge
Last month we had written about the deal between the Chinese online search giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and the German automobile manufacturer BMW (FRA:BMW) (See Baidu Inks Strategic Research Agreements ). This agreement is expected to foster joint...
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Chinese Internet Firms Turn To Crowd-funding
Chinese Internet company Renren (NASDAQ: RENN) recently invested in the Washington based startup, Fundrise. This was a part of the $31 million financing that Fundrise raised. Fundrise is into crowd-funding real estate development. Crowd-funding h...
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Weekly Chinese Internet Notes: Perfect World, Sina and Baidu
In this article will give updates on game developer Perfect World (NASDAQ: PWRD), media company Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) and search giant Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) for the last week in the Chinese Internet segment. It is worth noting that all these company s...
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Market Potential For Baidu’s Popular PC Faster Software
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) made news this week by announcing that its PC Faster software completed over 70 million downloads worldwide. PC Faster is a software that tunes personal computers (PC) to enhance performance features. These features include b...
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Baidu Inks Strategic Research Agreements With Seagate and BMW
While Alibaba’s (NYSE: BABA) IPO continues to hog the limelight in the Chinese Internet segment of the stock markets (see Initiating Coverage Of Alibaba ), Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) has been making moves of its own. Although famous as China̵...
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Weekly Chinese Internet Notes: Baidu and Perfect World
In this article we take a look at news items from this week that have implications for two Chineese internet based service providers under Trefis coverage. These companies are Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Perfect World (NASDAQ: PWRD). Baidu: Poachi...
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Baidu Posts Robust Top-line Growth Helped By Its Growing Mobile Presence
Until mid-2013, there were concerns surrounding Baidu ’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) mobile monetization capabilities. However, the company grew organically as well as inorganically to overcome these problems. It worked towards building a better mobile ecosyst...
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Baidu to Witness Robust Top Line Growth but Investments will Impact Profitability
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), the largest Internet search provider in China, with 73% share of the search traffic, is set to release its results for Q2 2014 Thursday, July 24. Until mid-2013, there were concerns surrounding the company’s mobile monetizat...
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Alibaba’s Acquisiton Of UCWeb Could Be A Threat To Baidu’s Mobile Plans
Earlier this month, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced its decision to acquire the remaining shares of UCWeb, a company in which it already owned a 66% stake. UCWeb operates China’s leading mobile browser and mobile search engine. Althoug...
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Baidu Plans IPO For Its Video Business
Baidu ‘s (NASDAQ:BIDU) iQiyi unit, a provider of online video steaming services in China, has plans to raise funds via an initial public offering (IPO) in the next three years. iQiyi’s CEO, Gong Yu, said during an interview in late April t...
