Google's music service in China hasn't achieved much so far; no one should look for Google's next quarterly financial report to say it's brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or toppled Baidu. But neither has it failed, and one person who's close to the service recently indicated that it's picking up steam.
Many products are initially available in English, and then branch out into languages like French, Italian, German, and Spanish. (There's even an acronym, FIGS.) But Google Search by voice broke with tradition - and started to make its way into a huge market - by moving straight from English to Mandarin Chinese today.
Don't be surprised if Google's sites and services become inaccessible to people within China. The search giant has gotten in trouble with a newspaper called the People's Daily, and said publication just happens to be the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
Baidu shared its third quarter earnings report last night, and the part that actually concerned the third quarter was quite positive - the Chinese search giant reported higher revenues and profits than most experts expected. Unfortunately for the company, its forecast for the fourth quarter then caused what can only be described as panic.
One of the largest click fraud rings ever detected, originating from China, has been shut down by click fraud monitoring firm Anchor Intelligence.
"This is really the first time anyone has ever been able to catch click fraudsters 'in the act.' Anchor has identified fraudsters down to the publisher site, IPs used (likely via botnets), and even the names and address of some perpetrators," an Anchor spokesperson told WebProNews.
Baidu announced that it has launched a new mobile search service in Japan. The company says Baidu Japan wireless search will build upon the existing Baidu.jp services, which include web search, image search, and video search, and have special features tailored to Japanese users.
The company has already been offering wireless search in its home country China. There, it has partnerships with carriers and all of the major handset manufacturers.
Yahoo should soon have about $150 million more to its name. By selling 57.48 million shares, the Sunnyvale-based company is liquidating its stake in Chinese business-to-business site Alibaba.com and collecting a tidy profit.
A few questions surrounding the departure of Kai-Fu Lee from Google China have now been answered. Lee isn't leaving due to any perceived failure - indeed, he thinks Google China is doing rather well - and it turns out that he's landed a position as the head of a venture capital firm.
The man over whom Microsoft and Google practically started a war in 2005 is now quitting that second company. Kai-Fu Lee, the president of Google's operations in China, will leave his post sometime this month.
In case you were in search of one, here's another good reason for Eric Schmidt to have stepped down from Apple's board of directors: devices relying on the Android operating system are about to take a run at the iPhone in China.
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