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Why Qunar will travel with Baidu
Chinese search giant Baidu (BIDU) is making a major push into the travel market, today agreeing to acquire a majority stake in privately-held Qunar for $306 million. So I spent some time on the phone...
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Bitcoin's tipping point
The four-year-old virtual currency was once dismissed as something of a fad that only gangsters and drug dealers used, but in recent weeks, it has found new sources of credibility.
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Does Baidu’s Robin Li have the hardest job in the world?
FORTUNE — Unlike Google GOOG , Baidu, Chinas largest search engine, cooperates with the governments policy of censorship. The western press commonly asks the companys CEO, Robin Li, how he justifies...
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Top women in Asia embrace risk
When Jennifer Li moved from General Motors GM to Baidu BIDU as chief financial officer in 2008, the stock of the Chinese Internet search company was selling for $21 a share. Today, the shares trade...
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This $100-million building looks exactly like Star Trek’s Enterprise
A Chinese executive who sits on the board of Baidu has constructed an office that pays faithful homage to Star Trek‘s USS Enterprise. The building, which was built by NetDragon Websoft’s 43-year-old...
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Mercedes is partnering with this Chinese tech giant on cars
German automobile manufacturer Daimler announced a partnership Monday with Chinese search giant Baidu BIDU . The companies plan to work together to integrate software from Baidu, sometimes referred to...
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China is making a massive new move to censor the Internet
China, long known for its strict Internet censorship laws, is now sending online censors to take posts at the country’s biggest online companies. Key “network security officers” will monitor the work...
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Fidelity, Microsoft, and Baidu just invested millions in this hot cloud startup
A group of big name companies have invested $110 million in the networking and cyber security startup CloudFlare, the company said on Tuesday. Fidelity Investments led the funding round along with...
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From carwashes to karaoke: See China’s advanced mobile economy in action
The sharing or on-demand economy, epitomized by companies like Uber, Airbnb and Instacart, is a booming business in the United States, but it might be nothing compared with what’s happening in China....
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How Apple’s next big move in China could fail
Apple Music launches in China on Wednesday. The streaming service, available in the States since the end of June, will be available to Chinese customers for 10 yuan per month, or less than $2. That’s...
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Secrets of Intel’s “Super 7” Cloud Computing Customers
There are seven companies whose computing buying power is so impressive they not only get early access to chips that aren’t available to any other customer, but they also influence how an increasing...
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Here’s Why Elon Musk and Everyone Else is Betting Big on AI
Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and fellow tech kingpins committed $1 billion to researching artificial intelligence. The group’s findings would be made available for the world. The possibilities where...
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Microsoft Cozies Up to China With a Custom Version of Windows
Microsoft will provide a customized version of Windows 10 to the Chinese government, the company announced on Thursday, as it continues to strengthen its relationship with Chinese regulators. The...
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Chinese Automaker GAC Group Joins Uber China as Strategic Investor
Uber’s China-based business has received a new cash infusion from GAC Group, a Chinese automaker, the company said on Tuesday. Though Uber declined to share the size of the investment, it seems the...
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AI Is Super Hot, so Where Are All the Chip Firms That Aren’t Named Nvidia?
This week, several of the big brains in artificial intelligence met in New York to discuss technical and societal challenges associated with building “intelligent” machines. I wasn’t able to attend,...
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A New Player Is Entering The Driverless Car Race
Baidu bidu is reportedly ramping up efforts to develop its own autonomous vehicle in a bid to compete with other tech giants. The online search company is talking to city authorities in China, and has...
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Here’s Why Baidu Shares Are Booming
China’s Baidu, the country’s long-dominant Internet search firm, turned in a slightly better-than-expected fourth quarter, but is now grappling with a protracted slowdown in revenue growth--one that...
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These Are the Super-Rich People Shaping China
At the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress that begins Saturday, one group clearly stands out - the 114 of the nearly 3,000 delegates of the National People’s Congress (NPC) that are on...
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The Google of China Says Robots Will Take Your Job
Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Chinese Web giant Baidu, isn’t concerned about the idea of killer robots. But he does foresee advanced robotics using artificial intelligence taking people’s jobs....
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Chinese Tech Giant Baidu to Bring Self-Driving Cars to the U.S.
The “Google of China” is reportedly bringing its driverless cars stateside. In a push to release a self-driving vehicle in less than three years, Baidu bidu will begin testing its autonomous cars in...
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