Don't panic if you see a driver in a moving car with no hands on the wheel because chances are the vehicle is self-driving. Such scenes, previously only found in fiction, are likely to be reality very soon. In late March, Volvo ...
Tags: BMW, Volvo, Transportation
The automobile industry has officially become the latest battleground for China's three Internet giants after Tencent Holdings Ltd announced a foray into smart cars. The owner of China's most widely used instant messaging app WeChat has ...
Tags: Auto Market, Automobile Industry
An innovative technology made headlines recently by allegedly offering users the ability to measure the quality of olive oil. The device comes from China, where there is an enormous problem with illegally reprocessed cooking oil appearing ...
Tags: olive oil, illegally reprocessed cooking oil, Agriculture
BMW is planning to team up with Baidu to test autonomous driving technology in China under a project, code-named "Vision Zero". The company aims at achieving accident-free mobility without compromising on the comfort and efficiency of the ...
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China and the U.S. are benefiting from and straining under 35 years of normalized relations. There have been tons of exports shipped from China to our shores during this time. However, none are more important than Chinese culture. The ...
Tags: Chinese Culture
Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
Tags: China Economy
For merchants, search engine and B2B website there are similarities, both even can replace each other. But due to the mobile Internet and social networking & E commerce, search engine and B2B are under threat. Search engine faces the ...
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Stream TV Networks will be showcasing consumer-ready 4KTVs featuring breakthrough Ultra-D? glasses-free adjustable 3D technology during 2014 International CES. Of the various sizes to be brought to market by the company's brand partners in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, TV, Stream TV
The price of bitcoins may be soaring, but China isn’t too thrilled with the virtual currency. On Thursday, it moved to regulate use of bitcoins, stating that its financial institutions could not deal in the virtual currency. ...
Tags: bitcoins, usage, investment
A new round of shorting is emerging on China's bitcoin market after the central bank announced last week that the vitrual currency is not legal tender. A platform under Baidu, where users can pay to improve their network speed, has ...
Hearts must have sank at 58.com and Qunar Cayman Islands late last month when a report from short seller Muddy Waters sent shares at the US-listed Chinese firm NQ Mobile plummeting by 47%. The two firms, both based in China, planned to list ...
Tags: Chinese Listings, Investors
Tourism service provider Qunar.com under Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) has gotten listed on the NASDAQ. According to IPO price range fixed for USD 15 per ADR, financing of Qunar.com will reach USD 167 million. The figure will swell to USD 192 ...
Video service provider PPTV, Suning Commerce Group Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 002024), Hony Capital jointly declared that the latter two will put USD 420 million strategic investment in the former, being the biggest like investment ever kicked off by ...
Providers of online advertising services in the China market generated total revenue of CNY28.77 billion (US$4.70 billion) during the third quarter of 2013, growing 24.2% on quarter and 40.9% on year, according to China-based consulting ...
Tags: Online Advertising
While Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) is suing Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd (NYSE: QIHU) and demanding compensation of CNY 100 million, a local court in Beijing has also accepted a lawsuit of the latter suing the former for shielding search ...
Tags: web service, Baidu, Qihoo 360