Baidu (BIDU) Stock Rushes Up On E-Commerce Move

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Baidu (BIDU), which operates the most popular search engine in China, has traded as high as 70x revenue. The stock was beateen down last week, but it appears that the little drop is about to end.

Baidu shares are up over 4% on news that it will enter the Chinese consumer e-commerce market.

The company said it has a strategic plan to enter the Chinese e-commerce market. Baidu will leverage its high user traffic and large online communities to build a consumer-to-consumer service,

Search engines already play a critical role in the Chinese e-commerce market. According to iResearch, 49% of China’s current consumer-to-consumer users conducted searches before visiting e-commerce sites

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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