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Baidu Earnings Seen Falling As Mobile Drive Continues

Earnings at Chinese search leader Baidu (BIDU) are expected to slip in Q1, as the Beijing company continues to invest heavily in mobile technology and marketing. Earnings per share minus items is expected to be 95 cents, down 6% from $1.01 in the year-earlier quarter, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. That would mark the company’s first EPS decline in at least four years. Sales are expected to climb 61% to $1.54 billion, according

HP "Moonshot" Servers Seen Gaining Data Center Share

Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) “Moonshot” server technology is gaining traction in the “hyperscale” data-center market as Internet companies ramp up spending on cloud-computing infrastructure, says Morgan Stanley in a research report. Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Amazon.com (AMZN), Tencent and Baidu (BIDU) are among companies building their own data centers, packed with flexible servers designed to scale up in volume as computing needs grow. Dell is

Ctrip Reportedly In Talks To Be Sold To Baidu’s Qunar

Baidu (BIDU)-owned Web travel firm Qunar Cayman Islands (QUNR) and Ctrip.com International (CTRP) are in wide-ranging discussions that may include a possible merger, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing two sources with “direct knowledge of the talks.” The two companies reportedly are in the preliminary stages of discussing potential deals that may include partnership arrangements that fall short of an actual merger. Bloomberg says the