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Google (GOOG) Tries To Get Into China, But Microsoft (MSFT) Has The Former President’s Son

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Google (GOOG) is still trying to break the hold that Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine has on its local market. The US company is not having much success.

The Chinese government does not allow uncensored content from Google News, but Baidu has been able to start its own news service. Google cannot use its music search function in China due to copyright laws there. As one analyst pointed out to Reuters: "The media is not an open marketplace in China yet — the state has its own agenda and has a lot of policies to regulate the market," said Edward Yu, president at research firm Analysys International.

Matters get worse in the mobile space. China Mobile (CHL), the world largest cellular company, controls what internet functions will work on its phones and what it will charge for them.

But, Google’s biggest problem in the world’s most populated country may be that it does not have enough "friends". The MSN unit of Microsoft (MSFT) is run as a joint venture in China. And, the head of that JV is the son of China’s former president, Jiang Zemin

Maybe the son of the current president is available.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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