Baidu, Inc. (BIDU)

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Baidu, Inc.

Baidu Campus
No 10, Shangdi 10th Street
Beijing 100085
China
86 10 5992 8888
http://www.baidu.com

Sector: Technology
Industry: Internet Information Providers
Full Time Employees: 45,887

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Age
Mr. Yanhong Li	Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer	N/A	N/A	48
Dr. Qi Lu Ph.D.	Vice Chairman, Group Pres and Chief Operating Officer	N/A	N/A	55
Mr. Lee Liu	VP of HR and Admin.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sharon Ng	Director of Ir	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Victor Liang	VP, Gen. Counsel and Exec. Assistant to Chief Exec. Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2005 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Baidu, Inc. provides Internet search services in China and internationally. It operates through three segments: Search Services, Transaction Services, and IQiyi. It offers Chinese language search platform on its Baidu.com Website that enables users to find relevant information online, including Web pages, news, images, documents, and multimedia files through links provided on its Website; and transaction platform, including Nuomi.com to connect online and offline services provided by third-parties. The company also provides transaction services, such as Baidu Nuomi, Baidu Deliveries, Baidu Mobile Game, Baidu Wallet, Baidu Maps, and others; and iQiyi, an online video platform with a content library that includes licensed movies, television series, cartoons, shows, and other programs. In addition, it offers auction-based pay-for-performance services; online marketing services based on search queries, contextuals, audience attributes, media and placement attributes, and other forms; and consultative services. The company serves online marketing customers, including SMEs, large domestic companies, and Chinese divisions and subsidiaries of multinational companies operating in the retail and ecommerce, local services, medical and healthcare, network service, financial services, education, online games, transportation, construction, business services, and decoration industries. The company was formerly known as Baidu.com, Inc. and changed its name to Baidu, Inc. in December 2008. Baidu, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

Corporate Governance

Baidu, Inc.’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of N/A is N/A. The pillar scores are Audit: N/A; Board: N/A; Shareholder Rights: N/A; Compensation: N/A.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.