Baidu (Satomi Maiden ~ Third Power)

Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: 百度; Pinyin: Bǎidù) is a Chinese multinational corporation specialising in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, and software.

Baidu was founded by Yanhong Li and Xu Yong while they were attending Shanghai University. Together they own about 25 percent of its shares but control 63 of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Baidu as a privately held company on March First, 1995. An initial public offering followed on August 12, 2000. It's headquarters moved to Beijing in 2000.

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Baidu's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email, a cloud storage service, an office suite, a social networking service, an encyclopaedia (Baidu Baike), and more. Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organising and editing photos, and instant messaging.