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[Karlll]

Es gibt weitere hoffnungsvolle News, ich stell sie mal ein, obwohl
hier scheinbar die Resonanz im Thread gegen asyptotisch 0 tendiert.

04.06.2009 07:44
M2B Enters China Market in Strategic Agreement With Baidu / US-listed broadband entertainment company launches WOWtv in China to tap into online advertising market and partners leading Chinese search engine for internet traffic

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Amaru, Inc. (AMRU) has announced that its subsidiary, M2B World Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (M2B), Asia's leading broadband entertainment provider, has entered into a strategic agreement with Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Baidu.com, Inc., the world's leading Chinese language internet search provider.

This partnership with Chinese search engine giant Baidu (http://www.baidu.com/) involves M2B making available a WOWtv site customized for China (http://cn.wowtv.com)and/ streaming free and legal video content from M2B's infrastructure. Baidu, in turn, will drive internet traffic to the Chinese WOWtv site upon its launch.

This partnership will enable M2B to expand its worldwide viewership and generate additional advertising revenue by tapping into the fast growing online video and advertising markets in China.

"We recently launched the WOWtv Global site and continue to aggressively pursue our expansion plans in China through this strategic alliance with Baidu," said Colin Binny, President and CEO of Amaru, Inc. and M2B World Asia Pacific.

"Despite the current economic downturn, we see this period as an opportunity for us to grow our broadband businesses by harnessing the rapidly growing online advertising market as an increasing number of large scale advertisers start looking online due to tighter marketing budgets."

According to a 2008 report by the China Internet Network Information Center, there are close to 180 million online video users in mainland China and online video is the second most popular internet application used there.

M2B will offer Baidu.com's search engine users a range of free and legal online movies, TV series and variety shows via video-on-demand streaming on the Chinese version of WOWtv. Users can look forward to watching WOWtv's most popular programs like travel series Estelle's Paradise, fashion videos from Video Fashion Network, Thai movies and award-winning Chinese short films. All the content on the Chinese language site will be made available with Mandarin subtitles.

The Chinese version of WOWtv was launched on 15 May 2009. M2B is in the process of integration with Baidu for generating traffic to the new site.

For more information on WOWtv, visit the global site at http://www.wowtv.com/, Singapore site at http://sg.wowtv.com/ and Chinese site at http://cn.wowtv.com/.

About Amaru Inc.

Amaru, Inc., through its subsidiaries under the M2B brand, is a leader in the Broadband Media Entertainment business, and a major provider of interactive Entertainment-on-demand streaming over Broadband channels, Internet portals, and 3G devices. To date, the company has launched Broadband TV websites featuring Hollywood and Asian entertainment, with multiple channels designed to cater to various consumer segments and lifestyles. Its content covers diverse genres such as movies, dramas, comedies, documentaries, music, fashion, lifestyle, edutainment, and more. The M2B brand has established its competitive edge by offering access to an expansive range of content libraries for aggregation, distribution and syndication on Broadband and other media; including rights for merchandising, product branding, promotion and publicity. For more information, visit http://www.amaruinc.com/.

About Baidu.com, Inc.

Baidu.com, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information. In addition to serving Internet search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potential customers. Baidu's ADSs, each of which represents one Class A ordinary share, currently trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU". For more information, visit http://www.baidu.com/.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to change. The information posted in this release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by use of the words "may," "will," "should," "plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, growth and demand for broadband services, the unproven nature of the advertising model, the ability to execute content deals on favorable terms, government controls on media in various regions, the ability to manage rapid growth, disruptions to networks, competitors and new entrants, changes in product mix, our efforts to establish independent broadband sites in countries where conditions are suitable, our ability to expand our offerings of content and various other factors beyond the Company's control.

For media enquiries, please contact: Alexis Ng Senior Marketing Manager M2B World Asia Pacific Pte Ltd Tel: [phone] Email: [e-mail]


Karlll

[Karlll]

Baidu heute zur Zeit mit gigantischen + 9%.

Grund sicher auch nachstehender Artikel:


Baidu boasts 74 pct of China's search request share in Q1, research report
Monday, June 01, 2009; Posted: 05:14 AM

| PowerRating -- China's search page queries have hit 44.27 billion in the first quarter of 2009, a little lower than that in the fourth quarter of 2008, but Baidu.Com.Inc. (BIDU.NASDAQ), the largest Chinese language search engine company, accounted for 74.1 percent of the total, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous quarter.

iResearch Consulting Group, a leading market research firm in China, said in a research report that Google and Baidu received 95 percent of China's total search queries.

The research firm attributed Baidu's dominant share to increased searches for Spring Festival topics during the quarter. Besides, Baidu's ads for the Spring Festival Gala Evening held by CCTV, China's national TV station, also helped push up the requests.

The research firm forecasted that the second quarter would witness a sharp increase in queries, strongly contributed by prevalent issues like the anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake and A/H1N1 flue.

Baidu accounted for 63.5 percent of all search queries in 2008, according to iResearch

Karlll

[Karlll]

Google ist erster, Yahoo zweiter, Baidu dritter


28.05.2009 11:42
Google weltweit und in Deutschland vorne

Der Marktanteil von Google liegt weltweit bei 62 Prozent, auf Position zwei folgt Yahoo mit 10,1 Prozent, auf dem dritten Platz die chinesische Suchmaschine Baidu mit 8,2 Prozent.

Der Erfolg von Baidu ist vor allem deshalb beeindruckend, weil die Suchmaschine keine Ergebnisse in englischer Sprache ausliefert. Auf den Plätzen vier und fünf folgen Microsoft und die koreanische Suchmaschine NHN. Diese aktuellen Zahlen hat das Marktforschungsunternehmen Comscore für den Hightech-Verband Bitkom ermittelt, Untersuchungszeitraum war April 2008 bis März 2009.

Auch in Deutschland ist Google Marktführer: Von April 2008 bis März 2009 beantwortete Google vier von fünf Suchanfragen (80 Prozent). Den zweiten Platz belegt eBay mit 5,8 Prozent, den dritten Platz die Seiten der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck mit 3,1 Prozent.

Microsoft startet in Kürze seine neue Suchmaschine Bling, bekannt unter dem Arbeitstitel "Kumo". Ein Werbebudget von 100 Millionen US-Dollar soll den Erfolg garantieren.

Stephen Wolframs lang erwartete "Computational Knowledge Engine" WolframAlpha ist seit 15. Mai online verfügbar. 60 Prozent der internetworld.de-Leser sind jedoch mit den Ergebnissen der neuen semantischen Suche unzufrieden.






So siehts mal aus.

Karlll

[Karlll]

Baidu Announces China Telecom Partnership

Posted on May 18, 2009 | 18:05


Baidu (Nasdaq:BIDU) announced May 18 that it has entered a strategic partnership with China Telecom (NYSE:CHA, 728.HK) directory information service Best Tone to provide wireless search service to China Telecom's 3G users, reports 163.com. Baidu's search services including, but not limited to, web, news, images, forum and mp3 were rolled up and imbedded in Best Tone's service platform on May 17, said the report. The Baidu service will be preinstalled on China Telecom's customized 3G phones and offered as a downloadable application for non-custom phones, said the report. Baidu and China Telecom intend to continue to cooperate on products, technology and services for 3G users in the future, said the report.

Baidu Union General Manager Cai Hu said earlier this month that Baidu would partner with all three of China's telecom operators.

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China's Baidu Holds Talks With Its Striking Workers

By LORETTA CHAO

BEIJING -- Executives of Baidu Inc., China's leading Internet search company, held talks over the weekend with striking workers who say they are angry over salary cuts and new sales commission policies that they believe are designed to force them out of their jobs.

Hundreds of Baidu employees in southern China have either stayed home or gone to the office and refused to work since May 4.

The industrial action burst into the open on Friday, when several hundred employees of the Shenzhen office marched to their local labor bureau to file a complaint against the company, according to strikers and officials in the labor bureau. In the nearby city of Guangzhou, the labor bureau said it had received complaints from "scores" of employees.
[baidu and striking workers] Associated Press

Baidu employs thousands of staff in China, which has the world's largest number of Internet users but a relatively immature Internet advertising market.

Baidu executives declined to comment. Several striking workers, who spoke to The Wall Street Journal on condition of anonymity, said that on May 1 Baidu cut the base salaries of sales agents, which averaged about 4,000 yuan ($590), by about 30%. At the same time it raised sales targets and threatened to withhold commissions and dismiss sales agents who failed to meet them.

The company "wants us to feel uncomfortable and choose to leave the company voluntarily," said one of the strikers in Shenzhen, adding that he didn't think negotiations would be easy.

Employees said they believe the measures apply only to staff in the company's southern offices. The strikers are demanding that the company cancel the new policies and fire the regional executives who introduced them. They will go to work on Monday to hear the company's response, and may continue the strike if they are not satisfied.

Baidu has been investing heavily in marketing to restore its image after receiving negative publicity late last year for carrying ads from unlicensed medical companies.

The company employs thousands of staff in China, which has the world's largest number of Internet users but a relatively immature Internet advertising market. Baidu relies heavily on its sales teams to aggressively call and educate potential customers, typically small- to medium-sized business owners with limited knowledge of Internet marketing.

Baidu is by far the leader in China's Internet search market with about three times the share of industry revenue as chief rival Google Inc. But it is facing a challenge from reduced advertising spend in the slowing economy and posted quarter-to-quarter falls in revenue in the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

Still, Baidu reported that year-to-year income in the first quarter of 2009 rose 24% to 181.1 million yuan ($26.5 million), exceeding expectations despite spending 40 million yuan ($5.85 million) on a high-profile television ad campaign to offset the bad publicity.

Liu Ning, an analyst for consulting firm BDA China Ltd., said that despite its better-than-expected income performance, Baidu is facing growing pressure from all sides. "Their clients are small to medium-sized enterprises, which are under a lot of pressure now because of the economy," Mr. Liu said.

Baidu's shares have rebounded since taking a dive in November after the bad publicity. Shares closed at $235.01 Friday, 134% higher than its lowest trade in the past year.
—Ellen Zhu in Shanghai contributed to this article.

Write to Loretta Chao at [e-mail]

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Baidu to post high growth rate for years
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-04 07:49
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Baidu to post high growth rate for years

Baidu's market share in China rose to 62.2 percent last year from 59.3 percent in 2007. [Agencies]

Baidu Inc, operator of China's most-used Internet search engine, will post a high growth rate "for years to come" as online demand surges in the world's third biggest economy, Chief Executive Officer Robin Li said.

The Chinese company plans to generate growth through its search-engine operations and won't shift focus, Li told analysts in a conference call last week. Baidu doesn't intend to follow Google Inc in offering online music, he said.

Baidu said first-quarter profit rose 24 percent as advertising sales surged after the company spent more on marketing to maintain its lead over Google in China, the world's biggest Internet market by users. The Beijing-based website's shares have gained 72 percent this year, outperforming Chinese Internet stocks including Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sina Corp.



Google, the world's biggest search engine, said in March it will start a free online music service in China with companies including Warner Music Group Corp and Sony Corp.

Baidu offers services that allow users to search for music files on the Internet. Advertising sales from related services account for less than 5 percent of revenue, Li said.

Opportunities in online music "have not been as strong as expected", Li said.

Baidu's market share in China rose to 62.2 percent last year from 59.3 percent in 2007, according to research company Analysys International. Google's share grew at a faster pace, to 27.8 percent from 23.4 percent, the Beijing-based researcher said.

The Chinese company's first-quarter net income rose to 181.1 million yuan ($26.5 million), or 5.22 yuan a share, from 146.6 million yuan, or 4.22 yuan, a year earlier, the Beijing-based company said in a statement. Sales jumped 41 percent to 810.7 million yuan.

First-quarter expenses for sales, marketing and administration climbed 39 percent to 204.3 million yuan from 147 million yuan a year earlier, the company said. This included about 40 million yuan spent on sponsorships during China Central Television's annual Spring Festival gala, the most-watched annual TV broadcast in the nation.

"Organic Internet user growth, government stimulus plans and Baidu's brand campaign on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala are major reasons for the upside," Zhao Ming, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group, wrote in an April 23 report. He has a "positive" rating on the stock.

Second-quarter sales will be 1.07 billion yuan to 1.1 billion yuan, Baidu said. That's more than the 983.6 million yuan average of 14 analysts' estimates.

China added 16.2 million Web users in the first quarter, the Xinhua News Agency reported last month, citing Xi Guohua, vice-minister of industry and information technology. The nation had 316 million Web users at the end of March, the report said. That's more than the total US population.

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[Karlll]

So, hier sind sie und sehen wohl recht ordentlich aus. Heute Abend
werden wir dann sehen, ob bereits alles eskomptiert ist, oder noch
Luft nach oben.


27.04.2009 23:24
Baidu.com schlägt Prognosen - Aktie steigt nachbörslich
Beijing (BoerseGo.de) – Der chinesische Marktführer bei Suchmaschinen, Baidu.com, (News) übertrifft im ersten Quartal mit einem Gewinn von 0,86 Dollar pro Aktie die Erwartungen von Wall Street um 10 Cent. Der Umsatz klettert gegenüber dem entsprechenden Vorjahresquartal um 41,5 Prozent auf 118,6 Millionen Dollar, was ebenfalls über den Konsensschätzungen der Analysten von 116 Millionen Dollar ausfällt.

Für das zweite Quartal prognostiziert das Management einen Umsatz von 157 bis 161 Millionen Dollar, was über den Erwartungen von Wall Street von 145,92 Millionen Dollar liegt.

Die Aktie steigt nachbörslich aktuell um 2,7 Prozent auf 231,00 Dollar.
(© BörseGo AG 2007 - http://www.boerse-go.de, Autor: Hoyer Christian, Redakteur)

[Karlll]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 36.999.482 von sohu am 20.04.09 08:54:33

Hört sich doch wohl alles recht gut an.

Umgekehrt wärs ja wohl schlechter gewesen. Eine
Woche vor den Zahlen ist das Musik für meine Ohren. Wenn man dann
zur Q-Zahlen-Präsentation auch noch weiterhin positive Zeichen für
die Zukunft sieht, sind wir hier genau richtig.

Karlll

[sohu]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 20.609.904 von Geduld am 10.03.06 10:23:51

Baidu: Deutlicher Anstieg des Anzeigenaufkommens belebt Suchmaschinen-Aktie

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