Net Applications market research firm released the latest statistics show that despite the introduction of Microsoft's IE 8.0 browser, but have not yet been able to stop the IE browser market share continues to decline trend. In April of this year, IE market share fell 0.72 percent, hitting 10-year low . Net Applications statistics show that April this year, IE browser market share of 66.10 percent, 66.82 percent lower last month.

At the same time, Mozilla's Firefox browser from the market share in March rose to 22.05% of 22.48%. Apple's Safari browser market share has decreased slightly, from 8.23 percent down to 8.21%. Opera browser market share from dropped 0.70 percent to 0.68 percent, Google Chrome market share of 1.42%.

Net Applications statistics also showed that in April this year had IE browser market share during the day down 60.90 percent burst; Firefox browser has been two days in the month, market share exceeds 25%.

In addition, April this year, IE 7 browser market share of 44.51 percent, down from the previous month by 2.05 percentage points; IE 6 browser market share of 18.36 percent, down from the previous month by 0.86 percentage points. IE 8 browser month a market share of 3.99 percent the previous month increased by only 2.16 percentage points.

Net Applications also given a share in April the report of the operating system, including Apple Mac OS X from 9.77 percent last month fell to 9.73 percent, but still second place, Linux operating system and the iPhone have increased by 0.1 percentage points, respectively, 0.70 percent and 1.02 percent, which ranks the operating system market share, respectively, the third and fourth. Although Windows systems are still the top market share of 87.90 percent, but market share continues to decline in .

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Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) advertised on March 31 as of the unaudited fiscal report. Quote, Profile, Baidu first quarter of 2009 running wages was 810.7 million yuan, up 41.1 percent; running yield of about 198.5 million yuan, up 34.7%; returns per share 5.25 yuan.

At the matching time, Baidu in addition is looked frontwards to to ring the second quarter expansion will arrive at more than 32% -36%.

All the major Internet companies in general in the fourth quarter of 2008 than a ring down. Data show that 14 consecutive quarter of year-on-year doubling of Baidu, the first quarter of year-on-year growth rate was significantly lower than the past.

The first quarter, Baidu's income from online trading to 810.2 million yuan, an boost of 41.5%. The first quarter, Baidu has more than 185,000 customers for the provision of services in 2008 than the 14.9 per hundred boost over the identical time span, mean earnings of 4400 yuan, contrasted with 22.2 per hundred growth.

However, since the third quarter of 2008 Baidu to pay customers in a clear "problem" of offering apex customers, as well as regular elements, and macro-economic slowdown, effecting in the first quarter of their midpoint expenditure flexible chain of bonds quarter plunged by 6%, respectively, and 4%. JI Wei Dong a examiner at Morgan Stanley incisive out that Baidu quarter running margin in the first quarter diminish of 10 percentage points to 26%, emotive its least stage in two years, due in part to examine and development charges and traffic acquisition costs.

Baidu search for new profit growth point. People in the industry are two of the most promising one is the original product to upgrade the system's "phoenix nest" and the other is based on the wireless network search service.

Phoenix nest last week on-line checking, the merchandise was that Baidu will become the short-term income development and new impetus to the commerce gaze ahead to.

During the Boao Forum, Li confirmed that Baidu and China Telecom, China Unicom (6.61, -0.01, -0.15%) to discuss cooperation between the news and said Baidu and China Mobile is negotiating cooperation in the field of mobile search, and he searches the market for wireless optimistic about the prospects.

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It is described that China's aluminum commerce bosses a clear opponents to the suggestion in agreement with certain facets of the company's 19.5 billion U.S. dollars buying into in Rio Tinto's design to make alterations, even though more and more suggestions that we have to strive to the other shareholders of Rio Tinto support may need to make some concessions.

Some of Rio Tinto shareholders to receive the same opportunities in the aluminum, the purchase of convertible bonds, but the aluminum Overseas Holdings Limited Wang wen fu, president of the United Kingdom in the "Financial Times" interview, not on such a request.

Aluminum want to buy 7.3 billion U.S. dollars investment in convertible bonds, which will be its shareholding in Rio Tinto rose from 9% to 18%. The company also plans to pay 12.3 billion U.S. dollars, Rio Tinto acquired the assets of some of the best minority stake in mining.

Opponents said the deal ignores the existing shareholders a priority right to subscribe, that is, without dilution of their shares, the refinancing of the company.

Rio Tinto portions last Friday's concluding cost in Australia come to 64.18 Australian dollars (46.85 U.S. dollars), has been more than two assemblies of convertible bonds of a assembly of 45 U.S. dollars which the workout price. Another assembly of convertible bond charge in the 60 U.S. dollars.

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