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Tag Archives: Baidu

08Nov/17

Snapchat owner’s shares plunge

November 8, 2017FinanceAli Mogharabi, Alibaba, Alibaba Group, Baidu, Beijing, Business, Business/Finance, China, Companies, Company: Snap, Company: SNAPCHAT, Company: Tencent Holdings, Company: Tesla, Donald Trump, Economy of China, Evan Spiegel, Lyft, Magic Leap, Nanshan District Shenzhen, Roselle, Roselle Chen, RSS, Snap, Snap Inc., Snapchat, Tencent, Tesla, United States, Video game publishers, WeChat, World Wide Websmbale

Snap’s shares tumbled after it disappointed with revenue and user growth. But the stock recovered slightly after Snap said China’s Tencent holds 12 pct stake. Roselle Chen reports. Continue reading →

03May/16

Baidu faces probe after student death

May 3, 2016InternetBaidu, Baidu Yi, Beijing, China, Company: Baidu, Computing, Death of Wei Zexi, Economy of China, Google, Google Search, information technology, Internet search engines, PAUL CARSTEN, Robin Li, Ryan Brooks, Science and technology in the People's Republic of China, search engine, Web search engine, Wu Zexismbale

Regulators have launched a probe at Baidu after a dying student accused the country’s top search engine of promoting false medical information. As Ryan Brooks reports, investors have cuts more than $5bln from Baidu’s market capitalisation. Continue reading →

01Apr/15

Internet giants drive into the electric vehicle space

April 1, 2015TransportAlibaba, Apple, AXA Framlington, AXA FRAMLINGTON ASIA, Baidu, Battery electric vehicles, Business/Finance, Cars, Companies, Electric vehicle, Electric vehicles, Foxconn, Google, Hon Hai, MARK TINKER, Nanshan District Shenzhen, PAMELA AMBLER, Private transport, REPORTER, RSS, Technology/Internet, Tencent, Tencent Holdings, Tesla Inc., Tesla Motors, TESLA MOTORS INC., Tesla Roadster, THORSTEN JAEDE, Transport, Volkswagensmbale

(BVO) – Pull over, auto giants – tech companies are moving into the fast lane.

With Internet-enabled electric vehicles making inroads worldwide, Chinese Internet players Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have each announced plans to develop their own smart EVs.
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31Mar/15

China suspected of launching massive cyber attack against GitHub

March 31, 2015SecurityBaidu, Baidu Inc., China, Computing, Cyberwarfare, Denial-of-service attack, Denial-of-service attacks, Dot-com, GitHub, GITHUB INC., GreatFire, Human rights in China, Information Age, Internet, Internet activism, Internet censorship in China, Internet in China, NEXT MEDIA, Politics, Project management software, search engine, search traffic, Technology, Technology/Internet, The New York Times, THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, United States, Version control, Web traffic, web traffic capabilitiessmbale

China (Next Media) – US coding website GitHub says it is facing the largest cyber attack in its history. China is thought to be behind the attack, which began on Thursday and is ongoing.
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