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Google Puts Female Scientists in Charge of New AI China Center in Beijing

Fei-fei Li, chief scientist of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence and machine learning team, announced the Google AI China Center was established in Beijing at a Google Developer Day event in Shanghai. Li and her student Jia Li, head of research and development at Google Cloud, will lead the center and be responsible for its research, […]

Alipay, WeChat Pay Enter Southeast Asia and Local Mobile Payment Market

Ant Financial announced in Hong Kong that four local wallets in Hong Kong, Thailand, India and the Philippines – Alipay HK, Paytm, GCash, and Truemoney – participated in the Double 12 Shopping Festival for the first time.

BYD to Open Electric Truck Factory in Canada

BYD announced it would build an electric truck factory in Canada, which will be its first electric car assembly plant in Canada. The electric truck plant is scheduled to be put into operation next year.

Robin Li: AI to Drive Growth as China’s Netizen Boom Hit Plateau

“The growth rate of Internet users in China exceeded more than 50 percent a decade ago, but today it’s down to 6 percent,” Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the Wuzhen Summit. Over the past four years, China’s population of Internet users has grown at a slower pace than its GDP.

Xiaomi Launches IoT Developer Program, Announced Cooperation with Baidu on AI

Xiaomi announced the launch of its IoT Developer Program and opened it on the morning of November 28. At the same time, Xiaomi reach cooperation with Baidu, and the two sides will jointly build the IoT+AI ecosystem.

Richard Liu Criticizes Internet Monopoly: Unfortune for China if still BAT Decade Later

“The Internet is a natural monopoly industry, and if it is still dominated by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in a decade, it will be most unfortunate for China,” Richard Liu said at the release of Qihoo 360 CEO Zhou Hongyi’s new book in Beijing on November 19.

Robin Li: Baidu’s Self-Driving Car Enters Mass Production in 2018 Despite Fines

Baidu CEO Robin Li spoke at the company’s annual conference on November 16 in Beijing, introducing its latest artificial intelligence technology for mobile phones, cars and the family.

Tik Tok Climbs into App Store’s Top 10, Honour of Kings Clings to 1st Place

Although Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and NetEase products dominate the iOS market in China, a number of companies such as Toutiao and Meituan Dianping have crept into the Top 10 ranking, according to records of iOS App downloads by App Annie in the month of October. SEE ALSO: What did Toutiao’s Buy with its $1B Purchase […]

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 […]

Ele.me Delivery Robot Completed Takeout Delivery for the First Time

At 10 a.m on October 9, Wanxiaoe(万小饿), China’s first intelligent take-out robot created by ele.me logistics team, appeared in the Hongqiao Vanke center in Shanghai for the first time. From today, it will accomplish the “last mile” delivery in the office building through its smart delivery service. Wanxiaoe has three layers of incubator with large […]

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 […]

Writing Software Floods the China’s Internet

Yesterday, People’s Daily reported that plagiarism prevails in online novels and that a writer who suspected of plagiarism was found to have used material in writing software. According investigation, there are numerous stores selling writing software in Taobao. And many software storekeepers say that such software is used to assist novel writing but mainly, the […]

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 […]

Apple will build the second data center in China

Apple will build the second data center in China, located in Ulanchap, Inner Mongolia. The new data center has been named as iCloud Northern Data Center. As the host, Bu Xiaolin, Deputy Director and Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region met with Isabel Ge Mahe (Ge Yue), Apple’s Vice President and Managing Director of Greater […]

JD.com Officially Enters the Real Estate E-Commerce Business

On September 18, Zeng Fuhu, former VP of Sohu net and GM of Sohu Focus, confirmed to All Whether TMT that he officially joined JD.com at the end of July and served as GM of JD.com real estate department. The department, which was recently formed, is now hiring staff. Jd.com will also add a new […]

Costco Must Overcome Three Challenges to Break into the Chinese Market

In October, 2014, Costco opened up an overseas flagship store on TMall International to give e-commerce in China a shot. On January 23rd, 2016, Costco opened a franchised store in Wuhan to give offline retail a try. On September 8th, 2017, Costco announced the opening of its first store in Shanghai, and confirmed the store […]

How can takeout delivery riders slow down?

Recently, a figure shows that in Shanghai 76 traffic accidents related with takeout delivery happened in the first half of 2017, with one food-delivery rider injured or dead per 2.5 days on average. Riders involved in such accidents from Ele.me and Meituan both account for 26%. After the media reported this news, safety of food-delivery […]

Rap of China Brings About Marriage Between Culture and Capital

The average seasonal production cost for a network variety show in China is between 20 and 60 million yuan under the current market conditions. By investing 200 million yuan into a music talent show, iQiyi is taking quite a gamble. Why exactly did iQiyi set its eyes on such a non-mainstream reality show? A guitar […]

JD Finance is separated from JD Group

On the evening of August 14th, JD Group released the 2017 second-quarter earnings report. The financial data of JD Finance didn’t be listed on the reports, which marked the realization of the news— “JD Finance would be separated from JD Group”. With the end of Q2, JD Finance completed the separation, and its finance data […]

Tencent will get rid of the tag as a “game company” by 2020

Abstract: Though Tencent has never been more successful under the glamor of Honor of Kings’ stellar performance, its dependence on gaming industry dropped. The revenue from games to total revenue ratio decreased to 42% in this quarter, while the ratio of the same period last year was 47.9% and the ratio of last quarter 46%. […]

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