Washington: An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR). "Nehru Place is reportedly one of the many markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods," said the report...
03:00 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Shanghai: Mobile operating systems developed by Asia's top technology firms will at best only chip away market share from dominant leaders Google's Android and Apple's iOS. And such a scenario would only be possible if these companies, such as China's Baidu Inc and Alibaba Group are able to court enough application developers, analysts said. "The challenge for Baidu, Alibaba, other firms looking to deploy their own mobile operating systems is...
10:41 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Shanghai: Dell Inc is partnering China's top search engine Baidu Inc to develop tablet computers and mobile phones, targeting the Chinese market now dominated by Apple Inc and Lenovo devices. China is one of the fastest growing markets for tablets and is home to more than 900 million mobile phone subscribers. Analysts said the tie-up could be Dell's way to revive its flagging tablet business. "I suspect this is just...
01:11 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Beijing: China's top search engine Baidu Inc offered a glimpse of its upcoming mobile operating system and launched a new mobile application platform on Friday aimed at bolstering its presence in the increasingly competitive mobile web market. The platform, named Baidu Yi, will enable third-party application developers to create apps such as games, maps and other tools that they can distribute in a similar way to Apple Inc's App store....
05:29 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Beijing: China's top search engine Baidu Inc launched a new mobile application system on Friday, seeking to bolster its presence in the mobile web as competitors including Alibaba Group increase their mobile offerings. The platform, named Baidu Yi, will enable third-party application developers to create apps such as games, maps and other tools that they can distribute in the Yi store in a similar way to Apple Inc's App store....
12:58 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Shanghai: Chinese search engine Baidu Inc may face tighter regulations after facing a barrage of criticism from state media over its business practices at a time when it is cementing its dominance of the booming Internet market. Analysts and various state media have suggested tougher rules could be imposed on the company in the wake of an investigative report by China Central Television (CCTV) which exposed how easy it was...
04:37 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Beijing: Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, said Tuesday it will distribute music from three global labels in a deal that its partners say could help clean up China's piracy-plagued music market. Music companies have sued Baidu twice over accusations it profited from unlicensed music copying by maintaining "deep links" on its search engine directly to sections of pirate websites. The venture steps up Baidu's rivalry with...
04:49 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Shanghai: China's Baidu is to partner with Microsoft for English-language search, giving the US software giant a chance to expand its tiny Web presence in a market Google has stepped back from, and helping the Chinese company's international ambitions. The tie-up will direct English searches from Baidu to Microsoft's Bing, which will deliver the results back to Baidu's Web pages, Baidu said in an emailed statement on Monday. Baidu has...
07:30 AM, Jul 05, 2011
New York: Eight New York residents sued Baidu Inc and the People's Republic of China on Wednesday, accusing China's biggest search engine of conspiring with the country's government to censor pro-democracy speech. The lawsuit claims violations of the US Constitution and according to the plaintiffs' lawyer is the first of its type. In an unorthodox move it names not only a company but also the Chinese state as defendants. The...
07:30 AM, May 19, 2011
Shanghai: China's Ministry of Culture will punish Baidu Inc for providing illegal music downloads, Xinhua, China's official news agency reported on Monday. The government will punish 14 websites that have provided illegal music downloads, including Baidu, China's top search engine. Xinhua reported that an official said the websites continued to provide that music despite repeated warnings not to. Details regarding the punishment were not released. Baidu could not be immediately...
03:59 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Shanghai: Baidu Inc, China's top search engine, will launch a licenced music search service in May, in a move to legitimise its current music search that critics say enables music piracy. Baidu will launch Baidu Ting sometime in May, said Kaiser Kuo, a Baidu spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The service will allow users to stream, download, create libraries of licenced music and will have a social-networking aspect. Music piracy...
04:44 PM, Apr 06, 2011
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