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According to a recent report by BrandZ , the world's largest brand equity database, the most valuable brands in 2012 remained mostly unchanged and dominated by technology companies.

China's top search engine Baidu said on July 5, 2011 that it had signed a deal with Microsoft's Bing search engine to offer English-language search to Baidu users.

Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it coined the "first step in the next generation of search.",While it makes its way to my part of the world , Baidu is claiming this is not new as the Chinese search giant has been dabbling in semantic search since 2009.

When a stock's share price is lower than a North Dakota thermometer in February, investors tend to give it the cold shoulder.

Specifically, it appears the investor bought a block of 500 out-of-the-money December 100 puts for the ask price of $8.65. Then, to reduce the cost of the protective puts , the trader simultaneously sold an equal amount of out-of-the-money December 150 calls for the bid price of $6. Or, simply put, the shareholder constructed a collar for a net ... (more)

Baidu , the China-based Search Engine famously labeled the Google of China, recently announced that it was entering the smartphone market with the ChangHong H5018, a device that resembles Nokia 's Lumia 800, but is powered by a hybrid version of Google's Android OS called Baidu Yi.

BEIJING, May 22, 2012 -- It has has become a trend of the industry that Chinese Internet firms rush into smartphone market.

Don't count MercadoLibre out. The recent 17.8% drop in the stock price of this LatAm ecommerce giant's stock is a clear overreaction.

Over the weekend, Yahoo finally announced a deal with Alibaba for the latter to repurchase part of the stake that Yahoo! owns.

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When I was in elementary school, the teacher once caught a student sitting next to me copying my answers -- I wasn't a participant in it -- not during the exam, but while grading it.

Baidu is perhaps the most followed Chinese stock. And given the stock's wide following, it would be an injustice to both the company and the readers to introduce Bidu.

The Facebook IPO might have drawn a lot of the attention away from the rest of the power tech plays, but it didn't make us forget about them.

President Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration for a second term, which was streamed live on the Internet, created quite a stir among Chinese netizens Sunday, with some saying they support Ma's description of the cross-Taiwan Strait status quo as "one country, two areas." The mainstream media in China gave only limited coverage of the event in Taiwan, ... (more)

In my May 12th note titled Baidu's Entry-Level Device Hits The Sweet Spot, But Challenges Remain I pointed out that Baidu's 1000-yuan smartphone allows the company to: However, Baidu's entry-level smartphone is unlikely to have a meaningful contribution to Baidu's mobile ambition unless the company: In my view, Baidu will likely face cost pressure ... (more)

The most profitable Chinese Internet company and its red scarf clad penguin mascot, has been growing into quite the force by competing with other Chinese Internet companies on many fronts like portal business , online games , social networking service , software and anti-virus services , online video , eCommerce , travel booking , online payment ... (more)

It was little more than a year ago that China's Facebook , Renren, went public on the NYSE.

Wow, the market is going straight down. While most stocks and sectors did not rally hard from the summer of last year through mid-April, the market has sold-off hard over the last several weeks.

Shares of Chinese gaming company NetEase Inc hit a new all-time high following better than expected earnings .

Internet search giant Baidu and popular forum mop.com jointly launched a campaign with Sina Weibo yesterday, calling on Internet users to expose bad behavior by foreigners in China.