Mobile apps aid workers in flood prevention (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
Shanghai flood control authorities are using mobile applications such as WeChat and Baidu Map to raise work efficiency and they opened a WeChat account to offer real-time flood information....

Circle Raises $60 Million in Funding Round Backed by Baidu, IDG

Edit Bloomberg 23 Jun 2016
Circle Internet Financial raised $60 million in a funding round backed by Baidu Inc ... Alex Norstrom, an executive at Spotify Ltd., will join the company’s board.  ... and IDG Capital ... Baidu’s investment is the latest in a series by the search company as it tries to diversify ... Baidu’s investment in Circle gives the company a stronger foot-holding in the payments space that’s dominated by Tencent Wechat and Alipay ... LEARN MORE. ....

Boys' basketball: Stephen Gilling is new head coach at Chino Hills

Edit The Los Angeles Times 23 Jun 2016
... by former coach Steve Baik, has been named the head coach for the Huskies....

Boys' basketball: Stephan Gilling is new head coach at Chino Hills

Edit The Los Angeles Times 23 Jun 2016
... by former coach Steve Baik, has been named the head coach for the Huskies....

Coupang Among 'Smartest Companies' in the World

Edit Chosun Ilbo 23 Jun 2016
Amazon topped the list, noticeably followed by many Chinese companies such as Internet giant Baidu (2nd), smartphone maker Huawei (10th) and Internet service portal Tencent (20th). ....

Baidu Creates Own Indexes to Paint Picture of China’s Economy

Edit Yahoo Daily News 22 Jun 2016
Baidu Inc ... Baidu’s Big Data Lab will use its tracking of people across the country to help produce new measures of China’s economy ... Starting from simple location data and gradually adding other clues such as search destinations and keywords, Baidu says its data scientists can make pretty accurate estimates about everything from a shopper’s purchasing intent to staffing levels in a factory....

Law School's new Doctor of Laws degree garners strong international interest (University of Hawai?i at Manoa)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Hawai?i at Manoa) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Contact.. UH Law School SJD planning committee members, with Program Director/Professor Tae-Ung Baik, at left ... The new SJD (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor) has been in development for several years at the William S ... Korean legal scholar Professor Tae-Ung Baik has been named SJD Program Director ... For more information, visit. https.//www.law.hawaii.edu/ ... (noodl. 34208523) ....

World's Smartest Companies: The Chinese Are Rising

Edit Forbes 22 Jun 2016
China’s companies are getting smarter, beating their Japanese and Korean counterparts and catching up with their American counterparts. According to recent MIT’s listings of the 50 smartest companies, that is. Two Chinese companies made it to the top of the 2016 list—Baidu in the second position and Huawei in the [...] ... ....

Tencent leads Supercell Oy deal

Edit Taipei Times 22 Jun 2016
Tencent Holdings Ltd (騰訊) is to lead a US$8.6 billion acquisition of game maker Supercell Oy, getting its hands on some of the industry’s most popular mobile titles through potentially its largest-ever overseas deal ... Tencent, Baidu Inc (百度) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) have embarked on an acquisition spree, seeking content and technology in their tug-of-war over the world’s largest Internet population ... ....

Best ETFs for the Buck

Edit Forbes 22 Jun 2016
Each month ETF Channel sorts through more than 800 exchange-traded funds to find the funds with the greatest trailing twelve month return coupled with the lowest expense ratio. ETFS Silver (SIVR), Expense ratio. 0.30, Return (ttm). 161.6%. A simple way to access the precious metals market, SIVR is intended to provide a return equivalent to movements in the silver spot price less fees ... 44.8% ... Top holdings include Baidu and Priceline.com ... ....

Clash of Clans May Spur Tencent’s Marvel-Like Aspirations

Edit Bloomberg 22 Jun 2016
Clash of Clans could be the type of tent-pole entertainment that helps Asia’s biggest internet company build a Marvel-like universe of movies, comic books, online videos and T-shirts. Tencent Holdings Ltd ... and Baidu Inc., and comes after Tencent bought the rights to 300-plus Japanese anime franchises in a push to become a worldwide multimedia brand like Marvel, DC and Disney ... Clash of Clans was named an “essential” app by Apple Inc ... ....

GSMA Announces New Keynote Speakers, Programmes and Events for Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2016 (GSMA - GSM Association)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. GSMA - GSM Association). June 22, 2016. Press Release ... Hong Kong ... We're excited to welcome the mobile world to Shanghai.' ... These executives will join previously announced keynote speakers from the world's leading mobile operators, infrastructure providers and device makers, including AT&T; Mobility, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, HTC, KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, Oberthur Technologies, Telenor Pakistan and ZTE ... Dr ... -ENDS-. Translation.....

Baidu Takeout Delivery is now in Strategic Cooperation with SUNMI

Edit PR Newswire 21 Jun 2016
SHANGHAI, June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SUNMI Technology Co., Ltd announced their strategic partnership with Baidu Takeout Delivery. This cooperation symbolises the new age of industrial segmentation and service evolution that the 020 takeout service is entering. Baidu Takeout ... ....
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