The consolidation of president Xi Jinping´s power is going to be the news story of 2014, says Kaiser Kuo, director international relations at Baidu in PRI. Kuo has a rather positive view on 2014, despite recent rise in international tensions.Read More →
Innovation is no stranger in China, as CEO’s of Baidu, Tencent, Haier, Alibaba and Huawei show. But it is only a handful, argues IMD professor and leading author on innovation Bill Fischer in the Harvard Business Review. There is not a innovative culture, although Haier offers hope.Read More →
Until recently, the mobile internet was one of the weak points of China’s leading search engine Baidu. Apps are key for mobile internet, explains their director international communication Kaiser Kuo to CKGSB Knowledge. And that explains exactly the recent acquisitions by Baidu.Read More →
More than half of the world’s richest female entrepreneurs come from China, says the latest annual Hurun Rich List, according to the China Daily. A proof for China’s good business climate, says Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf.Read More →
No smoking and no pets are the major bans at China’s largest search engine Baidu, tells Kaiser Kuo, director international communication at the firm. Despite restrictions, China’s internet offers its users more freedom than the average American might thing, he tells in Star Tribune.Read More →
Private companies have for long been trailing behind their state-owned competitors, but times are changing, says chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf of the Hurun Brand List. Branding is blurring that old difference, although the process is slower than expected, he tells in WARC.Read More →
The internet censorship is worse than ever over the past ten years, tells business analyst Shaun Rein at Bloomberg. And it is hurting business. For internet companies going global, China’s internet policies are a big hurdle to enter markets outside China, he says.Read More →
China’s largest search engine Baidu, number two in the world, is expanding globally. Kaiser Kuo, director international communication, explains in Knowledge CKGSB its global strategy, and why Egypt is high on the list of countries it wants to conquer.Read More →
China’s government has picked Google’s Android for its dominant position, because the government simple does not trust Google, tells business analyst +Shaun Rein to Bloomberg. But Android has not real local competition for the next two, three years, and China’s consumers just want the best, he addsRead More →
Chinese companies are going global, but they would rather take on developing countries. Those are not always the easiest markets, tells Kaiser Kuo, communication director of the country’s largest search engine Baidu in CKGSB Knowledge. Read More →
Smart Beijing sat down with “Baidu International Communications Director/Sinica podcast co-founder/pioneering Beijing longhair” Kaiser Kuo, and asked him about life and music in China’s capital Beijing. About Cui Jian, the Black Panther and much more.Read More →
Liu Bei, the Chinese warlord during the three kingdoms, emerging from the mighty Han empire, has inspired inspired many, and taught valuable management lessons, recalls Kaiser Kuo, both rock musician and communication director at Baidu in the BBC News Magazine. Read More →