3 Key Drivers To Baidu's Stock Value

Third Party Feed: Media Tech Analyst submits: Google (GOOG) is having a rough time. Earlier this week Goldman Sachs removed it from the conviction Buy list.

By Freedonia Freelance: There have been some recent reports indicating the situations in the Chinese and U.S. search markets. In China, the market is growing significantly, and Baidu (BIDU) continues to dominate its competitors.

Alacra Pulse Check Blog submits: By Sheena Lee

Trefis submits: AOL (AOL) recently acquired Huffington Post for $315 million, which is another one in the series of acquisitions that AOL has done since its spin-off with Time Warner (TWX) in December 2009. Since its spin-off, AOL has struggled to grow its advertising business. AOL’s revenues from the U.S.

Trefis submits: Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which makes money through contextual search advertising, has seen its ad revenue per 1,000 searches (RPS) fluctuate in recent years. Our estimates have indicated that Yahoo’s RPS grew until 2008 and has since declined due to the weak ad market.

Bret Jensen submits:Google (GOOG) reported earnings after the bell on Thursday. The company disappointed Wall Street with numbers of $6.45 a share versus the $6.51 consensus estimates. The main cause of the earnings miss was that Google had the audacity to add almost 1200 highly skill professionals to its workforce.

Xiaofan Zhang submits: Expecting strong Q1 results and Q2 guidance. Chinese search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) is reporting 1Q10 results on April 28. For the quarter, I estimate Baidu generated $183 million revenue and $1.57 GAAP EPS, above management guidance of $176-181 million.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google (GOOG) in January 1996 with the objective to ‘organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful'. Since then, the company has gone on to become the goliath of the Internet.