RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's business news starts with Microsoft in China.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: Details of Microsoft's deal aren't known. But the company says that English- language searches on Baidu will be directed to Microsoft's Bing search engine.
China's biggest search engine Baidu controls more than 75 percent of the Chinese market. The deal with Microsoft raises questions about how Microsoft will deal with censorship by the Chinese government. Google scaled back its operations in China last year, partly because of a dispute with Beijing over government censorship.