FROM CHINA, WITH LOVE. On Wednesday, Internet giant Baidu (the Google of China) announced a new partnership. Baidu has agreed to produce 10 of its self-driving Apolong buses for SB Drive, a subsidiary ...

Baidu.com has launched a Japanese search engine, part of the company’s plan to expand beyond its home market in China. The new search engine, Baidu.jp, shares the same clean look as the company’s ...

Baidu eyes Japan as its next growth market. China and Japan couldn't be further apart in so many ways, but working off a somewhat familiar language platform has Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) believing that ...

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SHANGHAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Baidu.com Inc. has set up a Japanese subsidiary and will officially unveil it as early as this month, in the Chinese Internet search leader's first overseas expansion, ...

In the same week that the US identified Baidu as one of the notorious markets for pirated content, the Chinese search engine yet again faces criticism on how it manages copyrighted material. The ...

Chinese search leader Baidu and Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce player, have announced an agreement to jointly invest US$50 million over three years in a joint venture to build a huge online ...

Baidu aims to take on Google and Yahoo in Japan from Reuters reports Baidu has relaunched in Japan at https://www.baidu.jp/. The press release called the launch a ...

Japanese Internet giant Rakuten announced on Friday it would end a major e-commerce business in China with local search company Baidu, citing its failure to meet expectations in the midst of intense ...

Baidu has started mass-producing its Level 4 autonomous mini-buses with the intention of deploying them not just in China, but also in other countries. Their first destination outside of China? Japan.

Bottom line: Baidu's new go-slow global expansion strategy focused on emerging markets like Brazil and Egypt looks smart, but will provide limited contributions due to the small size of those markets.