{"id":6692,"date":"2010-11-19T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-18T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:11:07","slug":"Fortune-s-2010-Top-Business-People-of-the-Year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Fortune&#8217;s 2010 Top Business People of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune set out to pick the <strong>Businessperson of the Year &#8212; and the 49 runners-up<\/strong>. They searched for leaders who didn&#8217;t just crawl from the wreckage of the Great Recession, but sprinted from it.  Some <strong>Asians<\/strong> made the list!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 6. Robin Li , Bidu (BIDU)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s loss was Baidu&#8217;s gain &#8212; especially when that loss was China&#8217;s 420 million web users. In March, Google stopped censoring its search results in China and redirected Chinese searchers to its Hong Kong site. The company&#8217;s market share began tanking &#8212; and there to take up the slack was Robin Li&#8217;s Baidu. Baidu, which already led the Chinese market, is now a juggernaut. Its end-of-2009 market share of 58% is now up to an amazing 73%. With some 8.5 billion search requests a month, it&#8217;s poised to overtake Yahoo as the world&#8217;s second-largest search outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Asians who made the list:<\/strong><br \/>\n21. Wang Chuanfu, BYD (BYD)<br \/>\n39. Geesung Choi, Samsung Electronics<br \/>\n50. Li Li, Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/11\/19\/news\/economy\/Fortune_businessperson_of_2010_complete_list.fortune\/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote\">Read the rest of the winners<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune set out to pick the Businessperson of the Year &#8212; and the 49 runners-up. 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