Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Baidu

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Baidu, Inc. (ChinesepinyinBǎidù, pronounced BY-doo in English), incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District in Beijing.[3]
Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language-search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum.[4] Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li, a University at Buffalo's former graduate student, and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who studied and worked overseas before returning to China. In October 2012, Baidu ranked 5th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.[5] During Q4 of 2010, it is estimated that there were 4.02 billion search queries in China of which Baidu had a market share of 56.6%. China's internet-search revenue share in second quarter 2011 by Baidu is 76%[6] In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100index.[7]
Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[8] Baidu offers multimedia content including MP3 music, and movies, and is the first in China to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant (PDA)-based mobile search. Baidu released its low-cost smartphone, Changhong H5018.[9]


TypePublic
Traded asNASDAQBIDU
IndustryInternet
FoundedJanuary 1, 2000
Founder(s)Robin Li
HeadquartersBeijingChina
Area servedWorldwide
Key peopleRobin Li
(Chairman)
ProductsInternet search engine
RevenueIncrease CNY 23.3 billion (12/31/2012) [1]
Operating incomeIncrease CNY 11.1 billion (12/31/2012) [1]
Total assetsIncrease CNY 45.7 billion (12/31/2012) [1]
Total equityIncrease CNY 18.5 billion (12/31/2012) [1]
Employees21,800 (March 2013) [2]
Websitewww.baidu.com

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