The Big Data Joint Laboratory between the United Nations Development Programme in China and Baidu was launched to pioneer new methods and frameworks for using big data to support development goals.

Cloudary, the Internet literature subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, and Qihoo 360 have inked a strategic cooperation to jointly provide Internet literature search contents to Chinese users.

In observance of Consumer Rights Day, Chinese search engine company Baidu Inc. launched a special campaign to enhance Internet security in China.

Li Guoqing, joint president of the Chinese Internet shopping website Dangdang.com, has announced that the company will stop putting advertisements on search engine Baidu.com from April 2011 due to the recent accusation that Baidu.com is involved in literature and music piracy.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com and an e-commerce subsidiary of Alibaba, Taobao.com, have just been placed on the United States Trade Representative's "Notorious Markets List".

Chinese Internet companies Kingsoft and Tencent have announced their intentions to join Baidu's recently launched campaign to make the Chinese Internet a safer place.

Baidu Wireless, a service of the Chinese search engine company Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred mobile internet service providers in China, including Sina.com for creating a green mobile Internet.