Tag: baidu

Retail Asia01/04/2022
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Swiss Re and Chinese tech group Baidu are teaming up to help advance autonomous driving, the Swiss reinsurer said on Friday. Swiss Re will provide risk management expertise and insurance products for Baidu’s autonomous driving business, it said without giving any financial terms. “This partnership will advance risk management research and insurance protection for autonomous […]

Retail Asia20/01/2022
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Self-driving cars were invented by Google and the Google of China, Baidu, isn’t behind its American counterpart. It has created a new brand called JiDU which has announced plans for launching a self-driving car by 2023. They are calling it the robocar which will be fully unveiled at the Beijing auto show in April. “JiDU […]

Retail Asia14/06/2021
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Chinese users were reportedly unable to find results for popular cryptocurrency exchanges on major search engines in the country. Keyword searches for trading platforms such as Binance, OKEx and Huobi yielded no results, according to various media outlets. The searches were conducted on major search engines like Baidu, Sogou, Zhihu, and Weibo. This marks yet […]

Retail Asia18/11/2020
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Baidu, China Internet search and AI giant, has agreed to pay $3.6 billion in cash for the Chinese live-streaming business of JOYY. The deal may help Baidu catch up in the fast-growing live and short video sectors, where it trails TikTok-owner Bytedance and social media leader Tencent. Driven by changes in consumer behavior that were accelerated […]

Retail Asia09/11/2018
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An automated Alibaba hotel is set to open in Hangzhou. The move showcases the e-commerce giant’s technological capacity and serves to diversify its scope of business – with a view to demonstrating and selling its data-driven innovations. The company has claimed the hotel will be more efficient than manned properties within a comparable price range. […]

Retail Asia08/08/2018
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China’s Baidu reported strong sales and profit in the recently closed second quarter, on the back of surging online advertising revenues. The Internet search engine said total revenues rose by nearly 25 percent to 26 billion yuan, marking the sixth straight quarter of revenue growth at the company. For the three months ended June 30, […]

Retail Asia05/03/2018
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to buy out Baidu Inc. and other investors in Chinese startup Ele.me to shore up its delivery network, a person familiar with the matter said, placing its biggest bet yet in online food and local services. An acquisition would hand Alibaba the biggest chunk of Chinese online food delivery and […]

Retail Asia26/12/2017
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Huawei has entered a partnership agreement with Chinese search giant Baidu covering AI platforms and technology, internet services and content ecosystems. The two companies plan to develop an open mobile and AI ecosystem using Huawei’s HiAI platform and Baidu Brian, a collection of AI assets and services. The HiAI platform is being developed on Huawei’s […]

Retail Asia16/11/2017
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JD.com profit soared 50 per cent after a 39 per cent increase in sales during the Chinese online retailer’s latest quarter. Its unaudited results for the three months to the end of September show revenue of RMB83.7 billion (US$12.6 billion), with a record 50.3 per cent surge in gross profit to RMB13 billion. Non-GAAP gross […]

Retail Asia18/01/2017
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China’s government has issued an order for all app stores on the mainland to be registered. In a notice on its website, the Cyberspace Administration of China says its offices should ensure that records are kept on the country’s many app stores. “Many apps have been found to spread illegal information, violate user rights or […]

Retail Asia05/01/2017
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The OpenDaylight Project, the open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks (SDN), said Chinese search engine Baidu has joined the project at the Silver level. This follows a recent announcement by Baidu to open source one of its key machine learning tools, PaddlePaddle, and demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to open source. Growing mobile markets […]

Retail Asia27/12/2016
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Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has launched its first artificial intelligence-enabled store in the Chinese capital city and plans to further expand its layout of smart restaurants, creating more innovative and interesting dining experiences for customers. With the cooperation of Baidu Inc, China’s largest search engine, KFC started its first smart restaurant in the Financial Street […]

Retail Asia17/12/2016
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Luxury brands need to use new technologies and offer experiences for their customers, the second Luxury Society keynote event in Shanghai has been told. UCO Cosmetics CEO Arthur Zhang told the event that the early-stage eCommerce model of simply providing a platform for selling products online is dead. He said key technologies being experimented and improved […]

Retail Asia22/11/2016
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‘Boycott China’ messages may have become routine on WhatsApp in India. But in the startup world, India and China are drawing closer. Chinese firms and funds have become big investors in Indian startups , and they are becoming particularly useful now as US funds slow down. Beijing Miteno Communication Technology, a Chinese tech conglomerate, made […]


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