Baidu opens office in Australia

Thus, according to informed sources, the chief executive of the Australian division of the search engine will be assigned a well-known players to the Australian market Fon Hindman (Fionn Hyndman) - a successful marketing manager, who previously worked in the division Baidu in Singapore.

In the post advisor in a new subdivision Baidu appointed Dean Capobianco (Dean Capobianco), who worked previously at Microsoft and Yahoo. It is reported that Mr. Capobianco has experience in positions of commercial and executive director, and is also known as a successful director of sales department Yahoo Search Marketing, which he left in January of this year.

Also, the team will join the Australian office Baidu Paul Christie (Paul Christy), for many years served as general manager and specialist in mobile strategy a major Australian telecommunications corporation Telstra.

"Today, more than 175 million Chinese users make purchases online. It is also beneficial and western vendors and the market as a whole. As you know, Australia is in close proximity to China and this country has always been a major trading partner of Australia. Today, Australian companies are in an ideal position - they have a great chance to take advantage of growth markets of China and its withdrawal to the international level "- says Fon Hindman.

Recall also that currently Baidu has an active policy of entering the markets of Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia. There are also rumors about the Chinese search engine has opened an office in Brazil.