Apple diving into China with new stores, could add Baidu to iOS

Apple is strengthening its push into the Chinese market, and with that may come the iOS integration of China’s largest search engine Baidu.

Bloomberg‘s sources say Apple is going to announce that Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is a new …

As venture capitalists turn their backs on China, funding dries up

Venture capital investment is hitting the skids in China, the world’s largest Internet market.

VC investment fell to its lowest level in six years this quarter, as reported by Dow Jones VentureSource. A slew of unprofitable companies going public have …

Japan’s DeNa moves into Chinese smartphone game market in deal with Baidu

Japan’s DeNA is bent on being a global powerhouse in social games on mobile platforms. Today, the company announced it will put its Mobage mobile gaming social network on Baidu-Yi smartphones in China.

As the market for games becomes global …

Chinese tech chiefs, including Alibaba’s Jack Ma, pledge to support government censorship

Leaders of 10 top Chinese tech firms, including Alibaba CEO Jack Ma (pictured), have pledged to uphold the censorship and surveillance goals of the Chinese government.

These firms met for three days in Beijing at the behest of the State …

Desperate? Dell strikes a deal with China’s Baidu for tablets, smartphones

Dell has been struggling for years to get a toehold in China. Now it has help: China’s leading search engine, Baidu, has teamed up with Dell to develop tablets and smartphones, according to Reuters.

The partnership adds a dose of …

SMS GupShup raises $10M for text-message social networks

Beerud Sheth, a serial entrepreneur in India, figured out the way to reach the most people was not through computers or smartphones. It was through old-fashioned text messages on aging feature cell phones.

His Mumbai, India-based company, SMS GupShup has …

Baidu adds English search results from Microsoft’s Bing

Chinese search giant Baidu announced on Monday that it would add English results from Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, to its own search engine.

The results from Baidu are currently primarily in Chinese. That includes search queries that users type in …