Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba are all private companies.

1. Baidu: The word "Baidu" comes from a phrase by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji, who wrote 800 years ago: "I've searched for him for thousands of miles". The phrase describes the lyricist's persistent pursuit of ideals.

By the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in Silicon Valley in the United States, saw the huge potential for the development of the Internet and Chinese search engine services in China, and with the dream of changing the world with technology, he resigned from his high-paying job in Silicon Valley, and with the patented search engine technology, he founded Baidu on January 1, 2000, in Zhongguancun.

As a high-tech company that believes in technology, Baidu takes technological innovation as its foundation, focusing on Internet core technology breakthroughs and talent training, and is a global leader in search, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, and other technology areas. Baidu believes that the development of the Internet is ushering in the third act - artificial intelligence, which is also an important technical strategic direction for Baidu.

Baidu has a world-class research institute, the Baidu Research Institute, which has recruited top technological talents at home and abroad, and is committed to research and exploration of artificial intelligence and other related cutting-edge technologies, with an eye to fundamentally improving Baidu's information service level.

At present, Baidu's AI research results have been comprehensively applied to Baidu products, allowing hundreds of millions of Internet users to benefit from them; at the same time, Baidu also opens up its voice, image, machine translation, and other leading technologies that are highly difficult and heavily invested in the industry, in order to lower the threshold of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and to further unleash the vitality of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2, Tencent: Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. was founded in November 1998, by Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan, Zeng Liqing five founders **** with the establishment. It is one of China's largest integrated Internet service providers and one of the Internet companies with the largest number of service users in China.

Tencent's diversified services include social and communication services QQ and WeChat/WeChat, social networking platform Qzone, Tencent Games' QQ Game Platform, portal website QQ.com, Tencent News Client and online video service Tencent Video.

3, Alibaba: Alibaba Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Alibaba Group) is a company founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher. The Alibaba Group operates a number of businesses, and in addition receives support in operating its business ecosystem from the businesses and services of its affiliates.

The Alibaba Group's businesses and those of its affiliates include Taobao, Tmall, Juhu, Global Express, Alibaba International Marketplace, 1688, Alimama, Aliyun, Ant Financial Services, and Cainiao Network.

Expanded information:

Baidu's international development history:

1. Establishing 7 branches and offices around the world: In January 2013, Baidu's International Division was officially established. It currently has branches and offices in Japan, Egypt, Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia, India, and the United States.

2. Achieving leapfrog development in the mobile field: In the global context of the rapid development of mobile Internet, Baidu International has taken "mobile first" as its core development strategy, and has formed the DU Battery Saver, DU Speed Booster, ES File, MoboMarket, Simeji, Magic Map and other star products as the basis of the mobile product matrix, covering more than 200 countries and regions around the world, with a total of 1.6 billion users, 300 million monthly active users.

3, from the application layer to the platform layer to complete the ecological closed-loop construction: as the largest giant enterprise in China's Internet industry, Baidu's internationalized product layout has gone farther than other overseas enterprises. While focusing on the development of its own application products and acquiring a large number of mobile users, Baidu International has built an open platform and perfected the construction of the ecosystem in areas such as native advertising and O2O.

In October 2014, Baidu acquired Peixe Urbano, a Brazilian group-buying site, and after the acquisition was completed, Baidu Nuomi worked closely with PU, and through the export of Chinese group-buying experience combined with localized operations, PU's sales increased by 165% in just one year, and the proportion of mobile revenue grew from 17% at the beginning of the year to more than 50%.

In June 2015, Baidu acquired popIn, a Japanese native advertising company. popIn's unique READ technology can accurately measure user acceptance of content, and then carry out more effective advertising recommendations. Baidu has been committed to cooperating with outstanding global Internet companies overseas*** to win. On one hand, Baidu applies advanced technology to its internationalized products; on the other hand, Baidu also brings some of the international advanced technology to China. After the acquisition is completed, Baidu's advertising platform will adopt popIn's READ technology and content recommendation technology to further improve Baidu's big data and increase the accuracy of ad placement.

In September 2015, Baidu launched the DU Ad Platform, a global mobile advertising platform for its partners around the world. With years of experience in overseas promotion, 1.6 billion high-quality overseas users, and accurate advertising technology, Baidu's internationalization has opened up to carry more Chinese mobile application developers to go overseas. "Baidu International is open to carrying more Chinese mobile application developers to go overseas, helping developers to solve the problems of overseas user acquisition and overseas cash flow, and seizing this round of market window of mobile Internet outbreak. Currently, DU Ad Platform has access to more than 1,400 developers, with a daily ad response of 1.5 billion times, ranking among the global leaders.

In October 2015, Baidu Brazil joined hands with 21 local heavyweight Internet companies and 3 investment funds to establish the first O2O industry alliance in Latin America, with Baidu as the permanent chairman of the alliance and releasing the first Brazilian O2O industry white paper. The alliance is committed to providing and introducing more cooperation opportunities for Brazilian O2O enterprises, organizing O2O trends for members, explaining O2O experience, and helping to attract investment and channel traffic.

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