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How Chinese Search Giant Baidu Is Getting Deeper Into Banking
Chinese search giant Baidu is investing more deeply in financial technology startups as it seeks to expand its own lending efforts. On Monday, Baidu announced an investment in ZestFinance, a startup...
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Tesla Isn’t the Only Company With Bold Plans for Self-Driving Cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk shook up the tech, energy, and auto industries this week by revealing an ambitious roadmap for his company’s future. One of his most audacious plans would convert self-driving cars...
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Baidu Says an Offer to Buy Its Stake in Online Video Unit iQiyi Was Withdrawn
Chinese internet search company Baidu bidu said on Monday an offer it received in February to buy its stake in online video unit iQiyi has been withdrawn. Baidu said that the buyer group had not been...
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Baidu Posts Its Biggest Decline Ever Since Going Public
Baidu, China’s biggest Internet search firm, reported a 34% fall in quarterly net income--its biggest ever decline since going public--hurt by a healthcare scandal that embroiled the company this year....
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Ford and Baidu Invest $150 Million Into Major Supplier of Self-Driving Car Tech
Ford Motor f and Chinese search engine Baidu bidu have invested $150 million into Velodyne LiDAR, the leading supplier of technology that lets self-driving cars see and avoid what’s around them. The...
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Here’s Why Intel and AT&T are Becoming Best Friends
As more people use their smartphones for tasks like watching movies, and as more devices like wind turbines are connected to the Internet, the behind-the-scenes-infrastructure required to funnel all...
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Samsung and Tencent Surge in the Race to Become Asia’s Most Valuable Firm
Tencent Holdings tcehy and Samsung Electronics ssnlf are racing to be crowned Asia’s most valuable company as expectations for robust earnings growth push their share prices to record highs. Their...
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Baidu and Nvidia to Build Artificial Intelligence Platform for Self-Driving Cars
Chinese search engine Baidu and chipmaker Nvidia announced a partnership Thursday that will focus on using artificial intelligence to develop a computing platform for self-driving cars. The platform...
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Nvidia Shows Off New AI Computer For Baidu’s Self-Driving Car
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia nvda showed off on Monday a smaller and more efficient artificial intelligence computer for self-driving cars, saying it would power Baidu’s bidu mapping and autonomous vehicle...
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Baidu Again Promises Its Driverless Cars Are Coming Soon
Baidu, the Chinese search engine, today repeated the company's goal of producing a driverless vehicle by 2018, and putting one into mass production by 2020, dates that rank among the most ambitious of...
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Baidu Allocates $3 Billion to Internet Investment
China’s Baidu bidu said on Wednesday it has established a 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) investment fund, Baidu Capital, as the country’s dominant search engine seeks a way to remain relevant in the...
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Salesforce Wasn’t That Into Buying Twitter, Documents Show
Salesforce may not have been as interested in buying Twitter twtr as many thought, according to the Wall Street Journal. The gist is that as of last May, Salesforce crm was considering more than a...
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu Warns of Government Crackdown After Its First Loss
Chinese internet search giant Baidu bidu warned investors fourth-quarter revenue will slide, hitting shares, as a government crackdown on health care advertising that tipped the firm into its...
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Why the ‘Prince’ of Baidu Just Resigned
A top Baidu bidu executive, widely seen as a potential successor to chief executive Robin Li, has resigned after an internal company probe found conflicts of interest involving another firm acquired by...
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Baidu CEO Tells Silicon Valley Immigrants to Avoid Trump and Come to China
It’s no secret that, contrarian Peter Thiel aside, much of Silicon Valley really didn’t like Donald Trump when he was running for the U.S. presidency. Now that he is the President-elect, analysts are...
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BMW and Baidu Just Called Off Their Autonomous Car Partnership
German automaker BMW and Chinese internet giant Baidu will end their joint research on self-driving cars, executives for the two firms said on Friday, with Baidu now searching for new global research...
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Baidu Is Reportedly Planning a $1 Billion IPO of Its Video-Streaming Site
Baidu, China’s largest internet search company, plans an initial public offering of shares in its video-streaming site, iQiyi.com, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the...
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Baidu Says a $1 Billion IPO for Its Video-Streaming Site Is Not in the Works
Chinese internet giant Baidu said on Friday that reports it is currently pushing for an initial public offering for its video-streaming site iQiyi.com are inaccurate. The Wall Street Journal reported...
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Yes, Your Company Needs a Chief AI Officer. Here’s Why.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, seems to be the most buzzed-about topic in technology lately. It’s helping display the right ads within your social network, recommend the next product to buy from your...
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This New Computer Wants to Be the Ultimate AI Assistant for the Home
Amazon's Alexa and Google's virtual assistant have already made their way into our living rooms, but Chinese tech giant Baidu is betting that verbal answers may not always be enough. The company is...
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