Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU)
Beijing, 100080, China Phone: +86-10-8262-1188
Fax: +86-10-8260-7007
http://www.baidu.com
Overview
Baidu wants to increase Web search results success one hundred times over. Baidu, which means a "hundred times," is a leading Chinese-language Internet search engine (Baidu.com), with about 80% of the search market in China. (Google is Baidu's main competitor, with about 20% of the Chinese market.) Baidu offers news, MP3, video, and image search. It earns nearly all of its revenues through online advertising services. In order to reap the rewards of a market that consists of a whopping 470 million Internet users, the company has had to accept a massive government bureaucracy and its censorship rules. Baidu also operates in the Japanese market through Japanese-language search service Baidu Japan.
Sample OverviewKey Numbers from Hoover's UK
Key financials for Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU)
| Company Type | Public (NASDAQ: BIDU) |
|---|---|
| Fiscal Year-End | December |
| 2010 Sales (mil.) | £773.6 |
| 1-Year Sales Growth | 83.9% |
| 2010 Net Income (mil.) | £344.5 |
| 1-Year Net Income Growth | 145.3% |
| 2010 Employees | 10,887 |
| 1-Year Employee Growth | 48.1% |
Key People from Hoover's UK
Key people and executives for Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU)
| Chairman and CEO | Robin Yanhong Li (Subscribers see complete biographies -- view sample)
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|---|---|
| COO | Peng Ye |
| CFO | Jennifer Li |
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