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03/17/08 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in FRiENDi Mobile
ePlanet Ventures, the world’s leading global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced an investment in FRiENDi Mobile.more >>

03/14/08 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in Korea Bone Bank
ePlanet Ventures, the world’s leading global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, has announced a Series B investment in Korea Bone Bank.more >>

03/01/08 - Dubai company plans virtual mobile network in Middle East
A Dubai-based company is planning to launch a "virtual mobile network" across the Middle East in hopes of accomplishing what companies such as Virgin Mobile have done in Europe.more >>

01/28/08 - ePlanet Ventures’ Asad Jamal Named to Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Global VCs
The firm's Chairman and CEO, Asad Jamal, has been named to the prestigious Forbes Midas List of the Top 100 Global Venture Capitalists.more >>

01/25/08 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in Naseeb Networks
ePlanet Ventures, the world's leading global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced an investment in Pakistan's leading consumer Internet company Naseeb Networks (“Naseeb”).more >>

01/24/08 - Creating Asia's White Picket Fence
David Chao acknowledges that when he started flying to China in 1999, people thought he was crazy to chase deals around the globe.more >>

01/24/08 - Big Wins For Venture Capitalists
Recent credit crunch and market woes be damned: Technology's most powerful deal makers have been on a winning streak.more >>

01/24/08 - Hot Or Not: Where VCs Will--And Won't--Invest
Venture capitalists don't just have to be right about which technologies hold the most potential.
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01/23/08 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in Palringo
ePlanet Ventures announced a Series A investment in PalringoTM, an innovative platform for next generation mobile messaging.more >>

01/23/08 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in iKang
ePlanet Ventures, the world's leading global Venture Capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced a Series E investment into iKang.more >>

11/05/07 - ePlanet Ventures Invests Series B in Direct Flow Medical
ePlanet Ventures, the world’s leading global Venture Capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced a Series B investment into Direct Flow Medical, Inc.more >>

11/01/07 - ePlanet Ventures Invests in Trivitron
ePlanet Ventures, the world’s leading global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced an investment in India’s leading medical technology company Trivitron.more >>

12/06/06 - European Private Equity Awards 2006
The European private equity industry met tonight in London for the fourth European Private Equity Awards. more >>

1/30/06 - The World's Hottest VC?
The World's Hottest VC? Asad Jamal, the man who found Baidu.com, goes on his own.more >>

12/21/2005 - Top 10 Venture Capital Firms of the Year in China in 2005
Zero2ipo for the second straight year, ranks ePlanet Ventures among the Top 10 Venture Capital Firms of the Year in China in 2005 (Beijing, Dec. 2005) more >>

12/20/2005 - ePlanet's receipt of the 2005 China Exit of the Year Award
Shares in Baidu rose $95.54 or 354% on their first day of trading on the NASDAQ exchange. Photo: Alvin Wenhai Sun, Sr. Vice President of ePlanet, based in Beijing , accepts the 2005  China Exit of the Year Award. more >>

9/12/2005 - EBay Agrees to Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion in Cash, Stock
"EBay Inc. agreed to acquire Internet-calling startup Skype International SA for roughly $2.6 billion in cash and stock, posing a new threat to phone companies and expanding the reach of the online-auction company. more >>

9/12/2005 - EBay paying up to $4 bln for Skype
EBay has agreed to buy fast-growing Internet start-up Skype for up to $4.1 billion in cash and shares, in a move to tap new sources of growth and add free Web telephone calls to its online auctions.
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8/7/2005 - Baidu.com Quadruples in Debut
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP - 'China 's Google' Debut
Is Flashback to Hysteria Of the Net-Stock Boom. In the three months ending June 30, Baidu's revenue rose 53% to $8.4 million from the previous quarter, and net income almost quintupled to $1.5 million. more >>

8/6/2005 - Baidu.com recalls dotcom mania as shares soar 250%
Shares in Baidu.com - "China's Google" - shot up more than 250 per cent in New York yesterday, in one of the most spectacular stock market debuts since the height of the dotcom mania of the late 1990s. more >>

8/6/2005 - China's search engine makes stunning debut
Irish Times - At the initial public offering price, Baidu's American depository receipts were offered at 540 times historical earnings. Google, which owns a 2.6 per cent stake in Baidu, trades at about 74 times earnings. more >>

8/6/2005 - Baidu soars 400% on Nasdaq debut
The Independent - United Kingdom - China's answer to Google " an internet search engine called Baidu.com " saw its shares soar more than 400 per cent yesterday on their first day of trading on the US stock market Nasdaq, valuing the Beijing-based company at $4bn (pounds 2.2bn). more >>

8/5/2005 - Gotta have growth; putting Baidu in perspective
SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) -- The immense appetite for Baidu shares underscores the scarcity of and the hunger for growth stories in the U.S. as much as it reflects the global economic significance of China. more >>

8/5/2005 - Baidu.com more than triples IPO market sees biggest open since 2000
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of the Chinese Web-search-engine operator Baidu.com vaulted 354% Friday in the IPO market's biggest splash in at least five years. more >>

8/5/2005 - Baidu.com, Inc. [BIDU] CEO to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell
Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.com, Inc. ( BIDU ) will preside over the closing bell to celebrate the company's initial public offering. more >>

8/5/2005 - Baidu.com, Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering of American Depositary Shares
NEW YORK, Aug 05, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Baidu.com, Inc. ( BIDU ), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced its initial public offering of 4,040,402 American depositary shares, or ADSs. more >>

6/15/2004 - China's Search Leader Baidu Closes Financing
BEIJING, CHINA, Baidu.com, Inc., a leading Internet search engine in mainland China, today announced that it has closed a strategic round of financing co-led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures and Google Inc.more >>