Posts Tagged ‘Google’

• Chinese Press Reports Say Google China Maps May Be Facing Shutdown (UPDATED)
  Posted by bbishop on January 31st, 2012 at 9:53 pm, Comments: 0

  Grim if not unexpected. Chinese press reports say Google ($GOOG) has not met the deadline to apply for a mapping license and so is likely [...]

• Baidu Has A Killer Quarter. It’s Good To Be A Monopoly
  Posted by bbishop on October 28th, 2011 at 2:56 am, Comments: 0

  Congratulations to Baidu ($BIDU) on an excellent quarter and good guidance. From the earnings release: Third Quarter 2011 Highlights Total revenues in the third quarter [...]

• Unredacted Wikileaks Cable About The Google Hacking
  Posted by bbishop on September 3rd, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Comments: 0

  Last December we learned that one of the Wikileaks cables contained a claim by someone with high level connections that the attacks on Google ($GOOG) [...]

• Investors Shrug Off CCTV Attack On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 19th, 2011 at 11:02 pm, Comments: 0

  Baidu ($BIDU) shares dropped 15.42% during this week of CCTV reporting on the company. Google ($GOOG) shares dropped 12.92%. It was a bad week for [...]

• Impact Of CCTV Attack On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 19th, 2011 at 8:53 am, Comments: 0

  The CCTV attack seems to be Baidu ($BIDU) specific as opposed to be part of a broader campaign against Chinese Internet firms ($SINA $SOHU $NTES), [...]

• CCTV Continues Its Assault On Baidu
  Posted by bbishop on August 16th, 2011 at 10:27 pm, Comments: 0

  China’s main TV network CCTV is running a concerted campaign to discredit Baidu ($BIDU). Yesterday we discussed the first TV report and the possible CCTV [...]

• CCTV Attacks Baidu, Again
  Posted by bbishop on August 16th, 2011 at 5:15 am, Comments: 0

  Last night CCTV aired a 26 minute report critical of Baidu ($BIDU), its sales practices and its Phoenix Nest system for advertisers. Using undercover reporters [...]

• China Sovereign Wealth Fund CIC Has No Plans to Invest in “Overvalued” Facebook
  Posted by bbishop on July 6th, 2011 at 9:05 pm, Comments: 0

  CIC Says it Has No Plans to Invest in Facebook–Caixin. No word from SAFE, another China sovereign wealth fund, on whether or not it wants [...]

• Should We Care If A Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund Invests In Facebook?
  Posted by bbishop on July 4th, 2011 at 5:22 pm, Comments: 0

  Last week Business Insider reported a rumor that one of China’s sovereign wealth funds (SWF) was interested in acquiring a $1.2B stake in Facebook. At [...]

• Does Gmail Have A Basic Security Design Flaw?
  Posted by bbishop on June 4th, 2011 at 9:20 pm, Comments: 0

  I am a heavy Gmail user who lives in China. So far my Gmail account has not been hacked (or at least as far I can tell). [...]