A study done in China found that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) surpasses its Chinese competitor Baidu.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ: BIDU) in technical sophistication, but it trails in the quality of its web connection and in its grasp of local tastes. Google achieved an overall satisfactory rating from 48.2% of the 2,740 web surfers who participated in the study, a blind test, beating Baidu's 39.
8%. I'm not sure what President Bush drinks at home, but in the G8 summit currently held in Heiligendamm, Germany, he may be drinking Afri Cola. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is hard to find in the summit.
Meanwhile, the company today announced that it has closed its acquisition of Energy Brands, Inc., known as glaceau So that's it. On Sunday Time Warner Inc.
's (NYSE: TWX) hit HBO series, "The Sopranos," will come to an end, and with it perhaps the end of Tony Soprano himself (although most bets I've heard go the other way). But with the end of , some speculate HBO could return to its roots as a movie network. The Sopranos was a huge source of revenue for the unit.
China has granted three more firms including ExxonMobil Corp (NYSE: XOM) and Saudi Aramco the license to distribute fuels in the domestic wholesale market. A study done in China found that Google Inc.
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