Sina Tech, Author at Pandaily

Ele.me is Now Available on Alipay’s Home Page

On October 16, Ele.me announced it would run food-delivery service on Alipay and Koubei, preceded by its consolidation of Baidu’s food delivery unit—Baidu Takeout. Meanwhile, food delivering is changed into “Ele.me Takeout” on the front-page of Alipay’s app, making Ele.me one of the 11 original applications on Alipay home page interface. A while ago, Takeout […]

Baidu Plans to Mass Produce Self-driving Vehicles with BAIC by 2021

At the night of October 13, it is reported that during the day the agreement singing ceremony for Baidu and BAIC Group was held in Beijing Vehicles Industry R&D Base, where both parties agreed to cooperate in self-driving, Internet of Vehicles, and cloud computing service and build “AI Plus Vehicles” ecosystem. On the ceremony, both […]

Cheng Wei Says Didi Has Only Achieved 1% of The Mission

Cheng Wei, the founder, chairman and CEO of Didi, was invited to speak at Tsinghua University yesterday evening. When sharing his experience of starting up business with college students born in 1990s and 2000s, Cheng Wei said, we possibly were at the best time now since the millennium. With technology explosion and industrial revolution, young […]

Zhang Yiming Says he hopes Toutiao could Become Another Google without Boundaries

On the afternoon of October 10, in GGV2017 Lifestyle Change Conference held by GGV Capital (纪源资本) today, Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of Toutiao.com, said that only after making Douyin APP, which enables many people to display their life ways, did he find that what various lifestyles the society had. “Entrepreneurship enables you to contact […]

Baidu Established the Second R&D Center in Silicon Valley

On October 4 morning, Baidu set up its second R&D center in Silicon Valley. Currently, the R&D center has been put into use. The goal is to recruit more talents in the field of AI and automatic driving. The R&D centre, located in Sunnyvale, covers an area of 36,000 square feet. At present, the Intelligent […]

Landlord Leased Wedding House in Mayi.com but All Was Stolen by Habitual Theif

On the theft case a Hangzhou landlord encountered which was reported by media, Mayi.com said in a statement that, in July, after receiving the landlord feedback, it set up a working group on track. At present, the case is still under investigation and Mayi.com will continue to cooperate with public security for investigation. Some media […]

Baidu Established Rumor-Refuting Platform

Users are likely to see some information will be marked as “rumor” when searching in Baidu searching engine. Today, Baidu officially launched its rumor-dispelling platform（百度辟谣平台） and hosted the launching ceremony with the national network police. 372 Net police law enforcement accounts from all over China will release information about the rumors on the platform and […]

Tencent is Setting Up Advertising Division in Silicon Valley

Outline: WeChat is expanding into the U.S. market. Tencent will offer advertising services to American brands that want access to Chinese consumers. Tencent is setting up an advertising division in Palo Alto, CA., aiming to promote its services to U.S. enterprises. “Advertisers can spend some budget in gaining brand awareness in China,” said Yang Baoshu, […]

Apple tax won’t influence live-streaming platforms

Abstract: Apple has canceled the 30% “Apple tax” once attacked by domestic application developers that provide content service. Recently, the updated Apple Store Review Guidelines showed that Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by […]

“Shared Girlfriends” are now Available in China

With the buzzword “Sharing Economy” spreading like wildfire recently, some folks online started joking about having sharable girlfriends next. Taqu (Touch), a popular Chinese adult product m-commerce and socializing app that just went listed on NEEQ (National Equities Exchange and Quotations), recently launched a service for delivering “shared girlfriends”. However, the service isn’t delivering actual […]

Well-known Quantum Technology Scientist Yaoyun Shi Joined Alibaba

Yaoyun Shi, a world-renowned quantum computing scientist, tenured professor of the University of Michigan and winner of Career Award, National Science Foundation, USA, has officially worked for Alibaba and now serves as the chief quantum technology scientist for Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd. Shi is another top scientist that works for Alibaba since the company […]

Meituan CEO says China has a lot to be learned about entrepreneurship and innovation

On the afternoon of September 4th. at the BRICS Summit, Wang Xing, the Meituan CEO, thinks China’s development and management in the field of Internet, especially the Internet+, has more referential significance to other BRICS countries and developing countries than the United States. Wang said that the integration between the Internet and people’s living level […]

MIX 2 with Edge-to-Edge Screen and Possibly Facial Recognition will be Released on September 11

After a round of preheating, MI release posted a microblog today that it will host a conference on September 11 to promote its all-new edge-to-edge MIX 2. MI Mobile: edge-to-edge screen 2.0 is coming! Evolution, a perfect evolution. 309 days ago, the MIX edge-to-edge screen mobile came out. Today, we move further to the future. […]

Baidu’s Face Recognition Auto Gate is being tested in Beijing Capital Airport

Baidu has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Capital Airport. Both sides will cooperate in fields of intelligent operation, intelligent security and management, information ability construction and others, so as to promote civil aviation airport’s upgrade in the direction of the intelligence and automation. It is reported that the cooperation between Baidu AI robot […]

Vice President of Tencent says Wechat will never read and store chat log

Huawei and Tencent in standoff over user data triggers discussion on the definition of user authorization and data security. On August 15, Ding Ke, vice president of Tencent, responded to the Beijing News about the above questions for the first time. He said that Tencent held an internal meeting with Huawei executives on Friday, which […]

Alibaba to open first unmanned retail store

Alibaba has announced that it will open its first unmanned retail store in Hangzhou at the end of the year. This project is part of the new strategy for TMall, Alibaba‘s online retail arm, which aims to improve traffic flow and discover more complex business scenarios in the unmanned retail sector Mr. Ying Hong, the […]

China now has 751 million Internet users

Recently China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 40th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (hereinafter referred to as “Report”) in Beijing. The Report shows that by June 2017, the number of Internet users in China had reached 751 million, accounting for a fifth of global netizens. The Internet penetration rate was 54.3%, surpassing […]

Apple’s Peripheral Services Set a New Record in China

On August 2nd, Apple released its Q3 quarterly data, among which, the growth of peripheral services is worth more attention. In Apple’s Q3 data, the revenues of greater China region were $8.004 billion, down by 10 percent of that of $8.848 billion than the same period last year, which stemmed mainly from Apple’s declining sales […]

Number of Female Gamers Surpasses Male Gamers in King of Glory

In the area of attracting female gamers, perhaps US gaming companies could learn from Tencent. According to recent data, the game King of Glory developed by Tencent has reached the highest percentage of female gamers in hardcore versus games. Based on data provided by internet consulting company Jiguang and supported by IDG，by last May of […]

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