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China's tech companies feast on home cooking - booming demand for mobile phones, online services and high-tech goods - but some may need to get a meal elsewhere.

Guest columnist Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

This story was previously titled "Land of Commons" Google and Baidu Tied in Competition to Win Chinese Search Market >> Posted By rockurbody 3 hours, 33 minutes ago in News Baidu, the Beijing based company, dominates the search engine market in China, but it seems that Google is now stepping forward to take the popular Chinese search engine's ...

Baidu I Paste Bar, the social networking service Web site through which fans are able to interact with their favorite celebrities, lately started operation, and achieved a user base of more than 12 million within one month.

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The search engine giant is big - $14 billion in market capitalization - and only getting bigger.

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A CHAT room on Baidu.com, a popular search engine, was closed and posts were deleted in another chat room for allegedly providing matchmaking platforms for prostitution in Shanghai.

Well-received social networking service game developer Five Minutes recently gained an investment of USD 3.5 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson , according to news on December 20, 2009.

There is little doubt that to be successful in investment over the next decade or so playing the China Factor is of outmost importance.

Seven Chinese search engine service providers have jointly signed a self-discipline compact in Beijing.

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For a country determined to stamp out online pornography, China has a surprising amount of smut that manages to remain on the Internet.

Google is not on top everywhere. In China, homegrown search giant Baidu snaps up more than one-half of the market by catering to local needs.

When one of the best and brightest investors in academia speaks, you better believe I listen.

The stories of woe continue to trickle in. In time, the stream will no doubt become a flood.

The most searched for term among mainland Chinese users of Google is "Baidu" C Google's largest rival in China, according to a report recently released by Google itself, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.

Focus Media has a problem. It's struggling exactly when it seems as though the world's most populous nation is humming along just fine.

GlobalX recently launched China sector funds for consumer and industrial and today Claymore launched a tech ETF with ticker CQQQ .

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