Tag: Baidu
China’s Baidu says its answer to Alexa is now on 200M...
A Chinese voice assistant has been rapidly gaining ground in recent months. DuerOS, Baidu’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa, reached over 200 million devices, China’s...
How a Chinese anti-virus software maker builds a fintech firm to...
360 Finance, an online consumer loan platform that spun off from China’s anti-virus service giant 360 Group, has joined a raft of Chinese fintech...
Alibaba replaces video streaming boss amid anti-corruption probe
A top-level reshuffle is sending shockwaves across one of China’s biggest online video businesses. Yang Weidong has stepped down as the president of Alibaba’s...
China leaves Huawei founder off honor roll marking 40 years of...
In the lead up to China’s 40th anniversary of reforms and opening up, People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, published a...
China’s hottest news app Jinri Toutiao announces new CEO
You may not have heard of ByteDance, but you probably know its red-hot video app TikTok, which gobbled up Musical.ly in August. The Beijing-based company also...
Baidu leads $300M investment to bring its search smarts to elevator...
China’s largest search engine Baidu is getting an offline revenue boost after it led a $300 million strategic round in Xinchao Media, a company...
Baidu’s DuerOS is now on 150 million devices, up from 100...
Watch out, Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and the Google Assistant: Baidu’s voice assistant is coming for you. Beijing tech giant Baidu this week announced that...
Baidu hits the gas on autonomous vehicles with Volvo and Ford...
China’s search engine giant Baidu is continuing its partnership spree for Apollo, its open development platform for autonomous driving, after it inked a deal...
China’s ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes world’s most valuable startup
Move aside Uber, China’s ByteDance is now the world’s highest-valued tech startup.
That’s according to reports from Forbes and Bloomberg both of which claim that...
SoftBank and Toyota team up to develop services powered by self-driving...
SoftBank is getting into self-driving car services after the Japanese tech giant announced a joint-venture with Toyota in its native Japan. SoftBank is invested in...
