FASTTAKES: Baidu, Motorola, Ericsson

Baidu.com reports that its chief financial officer has died after an accident while on vacation in China. Shawn Wang, who joined the company in 2004, helped Baidu list on the Nasdaq stock exchange the following year.

Motorola and Argentina's Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) of the city of Córdoba, partner to work together on software engineering and quality projects. Participating in the project will be UTN students in the final year of their degrees.

Ericsson announces that a brand-new security device with positioning capabilities has been launched in Japan. NTT DoCoMo has launched a safety device that gets high-precision location information by using the GPS function, Ericsson said.