The public relations department of Chinese search engine Baidu.com has confirmed to local media that Li Mingyuan, general manager for Baidu.com's Internet shopping branch Baidu Youa, is departing the company for personal reasons.

Travel review website TripAdvisor.com announced it is buying Kuxun.cn, a Chinese flight and hotel search engine, as it taps into a burgeoning tourism market buoyed by China's resilient economy.

China's leading travel website Ctrip.com (CTRP) has won an infringement lawsuit against a Beijing-based travel search engine Qunar.com, and according to the decision of Haidian People's Court of Beijing, Qunar.com should stop its infringement activities within ten days, pay relevant notarization fees of CNY1,000 to Ctrip.com and make an apology lasting for 24 hours on [...]

Alisoft, the software subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce giant Alibaba, has announced that the company will initially invest over CNY100 million to set up a cloud computing center in Nanjing, Jiangsu and to invest more in the next few years to promote the e-commerce applications development of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises.

Internet travel search website Qunar.com says the People's Court of Haidian District in Beijing has failed to come to a decision regarding the case filed by China's top travel website Ctrip.com (CTRP) in which Ctrip contends that Qunar willfully broke copyright regulations pertaining to Ctrip.

After Chinese online auction website Taobao.com last week announced plans to block the search engine of Baidu.com (BIDU), social networking services websites, including Blog.sohu.com, 51.com, Xiaonei.com and Hainei.com, also have admitted to blocking Baidu, the top search engine in China.

Chinese Internet travel provider eLong.com (LONG) has just reported its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 and says while total gross revenues slightly increased, its operating loss and net loss both expanded.

Chinese travel website Ctrip.com (CTRP) has announced that it will carry out a full strategic cooperation with Internet search engine Google (GOOG) for the Google Rebang and electronic map services.