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China’s Baidu Wallet has launched its mobile payment service in Thailand, on the eve of the traditional Thai new-year celebration Songkran. Part of the Baidu search-engine group, the digital payment service is now connected to more than 400 merchants in four…
Customers at a new digital KFC concept store in Shanghai give their orders to a voice-activated robot. Dumi the robot is sophisticated enough to handle changes and substitutions in orders. Dumi is the result of 10 years of research and development into…
Chinese search engine Baidu is experiencing rapid growth as more and more Chinese shop online. Releasing its September quarter sales results, the US Nasdaq-listed business says Online to Offline is driving a massive growth in mobile users, gross merchandise…
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