The online search market in China is quickly changing and developing. Baidu has ruled the market for online search engines for an extensive amount of time, and it still holds a significant share. At the start of the new millennium, Google began to offer its search services in a Chinese-language format with the hope of furthering its mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Disappointingly, the website was consistently unavailable for “about 10
Q1) For this question, we will take a deep dive internal analysis of Baidu. Firstly, let us take a look at tangible resources. Under this category, we have financial resources, organizational resources, physical resources and technological resources. Financial resources [Tangible] In 2007, Baidu earned about $86 million net income and $239 million in revenue (Ireland, Hoskisson, Hitt, p266). Majority of the revenue is contributed by an enlarged active online marketing customer base. We will
retail and payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. Alibaba.com is a global website for members to find suppliers and buyers. Consumers can both sell and buy products on Alibaba.com. The company began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers
Baidu CASE: A-197 DATE: 02/05/09 BAIDU.COM, INC.: VALUATION AT IPO Since its official launch in January 2000, Baidu.com, Inc. (Baidu) quickly grew to become the leading Internet search engine in China. After three rounds of private funding, Baidu registered to go public on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Ticker Symbol: BIDU) on August 5, 2005. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for a listing of Baidu’s private funding sources and pre-IPO share allocations.) The initial public offering (IPO) turned out to be one of
platform concentrates on products and services that unite users in the network. The triumvirate of Schmidt, Brin and Page has the CEO and two presidents orchestrating (in Schmidt's own words) a kind of "run-and-shoot offense" (Google:3), allowing the search engine to profit both as a place where web searchers can locate information and a place where businesses can advertise their products. What began as a Stanford University research project became an algorithmic dream, providing quick access to web surfers
Opportunities: Advertising partnership with Yahoo ? With recent discussions between Microsoft and Yahoo, top officials for both companies have spoken in attempt to form a partnership. Discussions now revolve around Yahoo potentially using Google?s search program as well as their ad system with revenues split between the two. Experimental
Comment on the legal and regulatory environment in China and its implications for the chinese media. In light of the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government of internet access, how do you think the media industry is affected? On google agreeing to ensure its search content, Reporters without borders commented, “Google’s statement about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China.” However, Google’s Director of Research was of the view, “What’s
attention recently because of the conflict between Google and the Chinese government’s self-censorship policies. In fact, censorship has been practiced since ancient China and the intensity only increases by the years. Nowadays, the most notable measure of censorship is being done on the Internet. More and more restrictions have been put into actions by the Chinese government, which make the life of Chinese Internet users, the Chinese netizens, very inconvenient. With the intensity of censorship increasing
also known as Human Flesh Search or Internet Mass Hunting is primarily a Chinese Internet phenomenon of massive searching in which numerous Internet users participate to filter the search results and assists users in clarifying their search request. It literally means to uncover the true identity of a particular person with the connected efforts of all netizens. Because of the convenient and efficient nature of information sharing on the cyberspace, the Human Flesh Search is often used to acquire
Some of Chinese ISP(Internet service provider) just like Tencent, Baidu, Sina etc. are entering the next phase in China's development: they are establishing co-operations with international partners, licensing their services, and some of them are even in the phase of initiating overseas operations