New Beijing Office Location!

We have moved to a new office and have changed our address. If you have tried to contact us recently but have not yet received our reply, please accept our apologies. Our new address is as follows:

Dongwai Building 8/F #812,
12 Xinzhong St., Dongcheng District,
Beijing, China 100027

北京市东城区新中街乙12号东外公馆8层812室

Tel/Fax: +86 (10) 6416 8586

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Maverick China on "Maverick" in China

 

We chose the name Maverick for our company back in 2006. We wanted a name that expressed our willingness to put forth our own views on China's markets, even when they went against the conventional wisdom of the time. Fast forward to 2008, with China and the rest of the world following the U.S. presential race. Lisa Chiu interviewed us shortly before the election about the word "maverick" in Chinese for her Chinese culture blog on About.com:

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All-out War between Baidu and Alibaba

Chinese search company Baidu has stayed in the headlines for much of 2008. In October my colleague Ed examined the company's entry into e-commerce (Youa.com) and e-payments (Baifubao). In September, my colleague Miranda Chen wrote about Alibaba's attempts to block Baidu's crawler from gathering data on Taobao. With the announcement last week that Alibaba will spend RMB 300 million to develop its "local search engine," Yahoo Koubei, it's clear that Alibaba and Baidu are locked in a long-term struggle for internet supremacy in China.

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