Back in December we told you about Dell’s Streak Pro D43, the first smartphone to run Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) Android-based Yi OS. And for anyone who owns a Baidu Yi smartphone, things just got a little more fun. Japanese mobile gaming company DeNA (TYO:2432), via its Chinese subsidiary, has partnered with Baidu to bring its Mobage gaming platform to the Chinese operating system. This means the Baidu’s app store (called the Yi Store) will have a special section devoted to Mobage gaming. This is just the latest effort from DeNA to ...
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Is Google Maps China About to Be Shut Down? Probably Not.
China News Service is reporting today that Google Maps may be on its way out in China. If true, the loss would impact millions of Android smartphone users who use the built-in mapping service to navigate on their phones. It would also be great news for Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and other Chinese net firms with mapping services. It appears, however, that this report isn't accurate. Google has applied for a maps license, it turns out, and from what I can tell, a disturbance of Google Maps service in China seems unlikely. Penn ...
Jan 16 2012
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Baidu Breaks Ground on New International HQ – But Not in Beijing
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s biggest search engine, has today broken ground on a new campus building that will eventually be home to 10,000 employees. Located in Shenzhen in southern Guangdong province, right on the border with Hong Kong, it’s scheduled to be ready in 2015. It is being dubbed the Baidu International Building until it gets a proper name in English. Across its two main towers it covers an area of 220,000 square meters, making it twice the size of the company’s HQ in Beijing. It’s a huge boost for Shenzhen where ...
Jan 13 2012
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Baidu Wants to Help You Waste More Time Watching TV
In good news for square-eyed fans of TV shows, the web apps on the front page of Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s biggest search engine, now alert users to when a new episode of their favourite show is available online. Just add a TV series into the bookmarks section of the site (as pictured above) and it’ll give out alerts on a daily or weekly basis, depending on when the show airs. According to the Baidu blog today, among its claimed 500 million users, “roughly 20 percent of all searches are for TV ...
Jan 11 2012
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Baidu Launches “Share” Beta in Search Results
Earlier today, the folks at China Internet Watch spotted an interesting thing in some of Baidu's (NASDAQ:BIDU) search results -- they had a thumbs-up logo and a number next to them. It actually looks very similar to Facebook's "Like" feature, although it is also being compared with Google's implementation of the Google Plus +1 button in its search results for obvious reasons. It turns out that Baidu is beta testing integration of its Baidu Share social bookmarking service with its search results. The number listed next to the thumbs-up indicates the ...
Jan 4 2012
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It’s Your Trip in a Box: Baidu Adds Travel Features Before Chinese New Year
This past year we took a look at some of the features of Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) ‘Box Computing,’ an initiative to make its search box smarter, returning more relevant and often interactive results for user queries. Over on the Baidu Beat blog today, the company says that it has now added some travel-related features to its box computing arsenal. When given a flight number it returns flight times, locations, and status, as well as last-minute updates like delays or cancellations. In searches I did , there was also handy option to explore ...
Dec 30 2011
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Every 60 Seconds On the Chinese Internet… [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. There has been a bit of a fad on the internet in recent days for posts about amazing things that happen online in just one minute, and so the Chinese site 17Startup made one about the web scene in China. The numbers were so awesome that we felt it was worth whacking the infographic into an image editor in order to translate it into English. It shows that insane amounts of money - and a ...
Dec 21 2011
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US Removes Baidu From Pirate List, Taobao is Still Listed
After a year that saw Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) make a huge agreement with American music companies to pay copyright owners for music that had been posted to a Baidu service, the United States has removed Baidu from its official piracy list. Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo expressed satisfaction with the decision, telling Penn-Olson: "We're naturally very pleased that the significance of this deal has been recognized." The piracy list, a strange mix of online and offline markets worldwide that reportedly deal in pirated and counterfeit goods, still includes Alibaba's online market Taobao, as well ...
Dec 20 2011
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12 Major Android Stories From Across Asia in 2011
2011 has been a big year for Android in Asia, hitting milestones in Japan and South Korea, whilst also expanding the smartphone ecosystem across the region thanks to its open-source tweak-ability. Here are a dozen of the most significant Android-related stories we’ve covered at PO in the past year, in no particular order. Android Market Expands to 131 Countries – But Not China In a good, early omen for Android in Asia, the Android Market expanded to accept payments for apps in 131 countries across the globe. But a noticeable absentee was China, ...
Dec 20 2011
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Dell Unveils First Ever Smartphone Running Baidu’s Android-Based OS
This morning in Beijing, the American company Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is unveiling a smartphone that runs Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) newly-launched Yi OS. It’s a major partnership that marks the Chinese search engine giant’s biggest move into mobile. The Dell Streak Pro D43 (pictured above and below) has a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen that’s high-definition (aka: qHD at 960 by 540 pixels), an 8-megapixel main camera plus a 1.3-megapixel one for video-chatting, and has WCDMA 3G that’ll run on China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762), the same network that carries the iPhone ...
Dec 13 2011
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China’s Top 50 Brands List Features 14 Tech Giants
The market research firm Millward Brown has just released the 2012 edition of its ‘BrandZ most valuable Chinese brands top 50’ report. It sees more Chinese tech firms that ever on the list, including well-known names in social media. Indeed, some tech brands are growing most quickly in terms of what’s called “brand value” - that’s a measure used by some analysts derived from a company’s ability to generate demand, based partially on forecasted earnings. The report’s authors note that “this explosion of value suggests the enormous influence that Chinese ...
Dec 14 2011
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Baidu Japan Acquires Simeji Mobile App Team, For Added Japanese Typing Fun
The Japanese subsidiary of Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), the Chinese search engine giant, has acquired the small startup team behind the Simeji input method editor (IME) app for Android. The free app has been downloaded over a million times already from the Android Market. Simeji’s creator, Adam Rocker, promised in a tweet that both he - a San Fransico-based developer - and the usual team will continue working on the app. In an email to PO, Adam said: We are glad to announce this acquisition, and also looking forward to working at Baidu ...
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