Baidu

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

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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

Introduction Baidu is a Chinese web services company that mainly offers Chinese language search engine for websites, music and images. Baidu also offers other services such as Baidu Baike which is similar to Wikipedia, Baidu Maps, etc. Baidu was founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu and now the company’s headquarters is located in Beijing. Portfolio 1 1. Why is Baidu number one in its industry? Where is its competitive advantage? As a Chinese search engine provider, Baidu is almost unrivaled compared

charged when the ad is clicked. As a result, Baidu has an incentive to place ads from higher paying companies in prime locations. It is estimated that 99.7 percent of Baidu’s $3.5 billion in 2012 revenue was generated from online marketing and advertising services. Baidu’s web based services most similarly replicate Googles; offering a variety of services such as maps, news, video and encyclopedia searches. How Google generates income While Google and Baidu operate in similar web based services, Google’s

Market officially, and 5 years since Google established Google China. Despite having a brand value of an amazing $66.4 billion, Google.cn still fails to dominate the search engine market in mainland China and faces stiff competition from bitter rival Baidu. In other words, Baidu’s market share in China is nearly 75 percent to Google China’s 25 percent. The secret to Baidu’s success and Google’s failure is largely positioning. Chinese authorities blocked Google

There are many factors that lead Alibaba to sustaining its leadership position in the Chinese e-commerce markets, some of the factors explained in the case are: • First mover advantage was created when Alibaba enter the e-commerce market with the business to business transactions for small and medium business. This give the advantage for the firm to gain greater market share, obtain specialized sources and human capital, and it gain a great part of customers that are loyal to the company. • Local

Alibaba Case 1. Critically analyze the factors that led to Alibaba sustaining its leadership position in the Chinese e-commerce market. There are many factors that lead Alibaba to sustaining its leadership position in the Chinese e-commerce markets, some of the factors explained in the case are: • First mover advantage was created when Alibaba enter the e-commerce market with the business to business transactions for small and medium business. This give the advantage for the firm to gain greater

1. Critically analyze the factors that led to Alibaba sustaining its leadership position in the Chinese e-commerce market. During the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the internet was not very popular in China and people were ignorant to its proper use. Knowing this, Jack Ma decided to start this internet user-friendly company that would allow his clients to perform business transactions with other businesses/suppliers in China. He first started the company on a local level and as Alibaba has

Opportunities Increasing focus on cloud computing There is a flare-up in businesses wanting to be “in the cloud.” Cloud computing could be the next revolution in computing, a gold rush that could become even more lucrative than the hundred-billion dollar operations that run today. According to Structure Research reports, the global market for massive-scale public cloud services is growing at more than 61%. They project it to reach $122 billion in 2020.This amazing statistics tells us how the market