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...easy to see the Baidu story as so many in China now do: Chinese upstart whips the American Goliath. But it's more complicated than that, as Li is the first to admit. The fact is, Baidu's success resembles a typically American success story. Li was born in an impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted...
Apple could also look to buy a blogging upstart like Tumblr or Posterous. Both are so easy to use that they make iWeb's instructions feel like a calculus textbook. Posterous lets anyone create and add to a blog by e-mail - you can post pictures, audio and videos just by adding attachments. When asked if he could envision partnering with his former employer at some point, Posterous founder Agarwal says, "I think Apple would be a great acquirer for Posterous." (See the best travel gadgets...
France has earned a reputation for stubborn arrogance in the wine world for boasting of its inimitable terroirs and millennia-old viticultural traditions, while slapping lawsuits on any upstart foreign wine maker who dares to label his tipple champagne or chablis...
...Murray's F1-honed competitiveness clearly remains intact. But in this race - to be the first to manufacture and market eco-friendly cars on a mass scale - he's betting that the upstart lightweights, not the big-name players, will have the winning edge...
...that two state attorneys general began investigating the site for possibly violating consumer-protection laws and its own terms of use. But wannabe sites are eager to replace the once mighty JuicyCampus. So eager, in fact, that the defunct site was paid by ACB to redirect traffic to the upstart gossip...