Topic: Baidu.com Inc.

What Chinese companies want: intellectual property protection

Chinese-American business relations, long fraught with distrust for China because it was not controlling piracy, appear to be benefiting from a new Chinese respect for intellectual property rights.

Google, an underdog in Asia, lays plans for Taiwan data center

Taiwan gets Internet traffic easily from the United States. I sits at the ends of undersea cables that extend directly from North America before branching off to other parts of Asia.

Will China's Communist Party prove James Madison wrong? Unlikely.

Ruling in China used to be like hammering a nail into wood. Now it is much more like balancing on a slippery egg. Whether the authorities can sustain their present balancing act seems doubtful.

Valentine's Day with a Chinese twist

Other than red roses and a candlelit dinner for two on Valentine's Day, nothing in Beijing says 'I love you' (vaguely, in Chinese) like an investment offering an annual return of 5.2 percent.

Can Facebook and China be friends?

China, the world's biggest Internet market, is a huge draw for Facebook as it prepares to go public, but Beijing is deeply suspicious of social networks that lie beyond the control of the ruling Communist Party.

Wikipedia blackout: Why even supporters question anti-SOPA move

The Wikipedia blackout is intended to spotlight the value of open access to information on the Internet, but also underlies how fractious the move is, drawing fire from both critics and supporters.

Week ahead: new transparency at the Fed and a gusher of earnings

The Fed will hold its first-ever quarterly briefing, and new data will likely reveal sluggish economic growth for the first quarter

Is Facebook headed to China?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the offices of a popular Chinese search engine on Monday, prompting speculation that Facebook is eyeing business opportunities in mainland China.

Mark Zuckerberg in China: Plans to expand Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, toured the headquarters of Baidu, China's top search engine, Monday. Zuckerberg also had lunch with Baidu's CEO in Beijing. Is a business partnership in the works?

Google stops routing Chinese users to Hong Kong after Beijing objects

Google said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users to its Hong Kong site after the Chinese government objected.

A bull market eulogy

A few of the things we'll miss most from watching the market's snack-back rallies day after day.

Google out of China: Doing no evil

Google tried for years to cooperate with censorship in China. But in the end, cofounder Sergey Brin's boyhood experience under totalitarianism demanded a different decision.

Google China pullout: What has changed?

The Google China pullout means that operations were shifted overnight, with the company saying it will no longer comply with Chinese government demands that it censor its search results. Some in China expect Google will eventually be kicked out of the mainland.

Now that Google China says 'no' to censoring, who wins: Google or China?

Google China announced Monday that it will stop censoring search results. For both Google and China, the risks are big.

Google in China: lionized online, brushed off by Beijing

Beijing’s steely response Thursday to Google’s threat that it will leave China unless censorship stops contrasted with Chinese Internet users’ outpouring of support.

Can Google afford to leave China?

There's huge potential but also massive challenges if Google stays in China.

For Google, China remains closed commercially, too

Since launching in 2006, Google’s China search engine has struggled to attract users. Homegrown competitor Baidu enjoys twice the US firm's market share.

Will the West's criticism of China for jailing top dissident backfire?

The Chrismas Day sentencing of literary critic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison has drawn unusually strong criticism from Western governments, but some experts say that may only result in China taking a harder line.

In China, a Google-killer looks to solidify its gains

Open China's great firewall

The largest online community in the world suffers under a heavy hand.

Open China's great firewall

The largest online community in the world suffers under a heavy hand.

Chinese get one news source on Tibet

The official news agency provides all coverage for print and TV, while censors closely monitor the Web.