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Chinese Internet company Baidu has announced that it has completed amendments to its e-commerce platform and will now accept up to 10,000 applications for beta testers. For customers who apply to become beta testers, and are accepted, Baidu's e-commerce platform will offer independent .CN domain names, free promotions, and customized marketing activities.

Google and Chinese software company Kingsoft have announced a co-branding strategy on China’s online market— the launch of a web-based dictionary. With this alliance, netizens can use Google’s translation service on Kingsoft’s popular English-Chinese dictionary software PowerWord that has estimated 30 million users.

Just two weeks after Baidu Hi launched its public beta test, Baidu announced on yesterday that over 1 million users has tried Baidu Hi. An IM service from Baidu will definitely attracts users’ attention, similar to Google’s GTalk. The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.

Just two weeks after Baidu Hi launched its public beta test, Baidu announced on yesterday that over 1 million users has tried Baidu Hi. An IM service from Baidu will definitely attracts users’ attention, similar to Google’s GTalk. The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.

Baidu Hi, the new Chinese Instant Messenger (IM) is in public test started from last week. Users were desperate for an invitation and discussing about it. The Chinese Internet is suddenly very Hi(gh). In this post, we share with you some of our views on Baidu Hi, the hottest product nowadays.

The IM penetration rate is in China is much higher than email (81% vs. 57%), and Tencent has built a cash machine around its popular IM client QQ. So it is totally not surprised that Baidu will roll out its own IM tool, and it has been rumored in the market for about a year.

Baidu.com is testing its new IM product "Baidu Hi." Only Baidu employees can use it now. Only one other company cares about it - Shenzhen based Tencent, which runs QQ. QQ platform holds about 80% of China's IM industry. Tencent has 580 million registered users and earned Y1 billion in the 3Q last year by providing Internet value added services.

"China's top search engine, Baidu, announced plans to launch their own instant messenger (IM) called "Baidu Hi." Research and development for Baidu Hi has been underway for almost one year. Baidu is currently in the process of recruiting additional personnel for the team dedicated to developing the product.

Baidu instant messages Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Newsman ’“” China’s top search engine, Baidu, said it plans to launch an instant-messaging service called “Baidu Hi.” Read more » Popularity: 3% [?] Filed under: Internet | No Comments » Tags>> baidu | hi | im | instant messenger

People who are counting the ways in which Baidu has beaten Google may soon have to make one more tally mark; reports state that the Chinese giant is testing an instant messaging service. read more