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China’s government has issued an order for all app stores on the mainland to be registered. In a notice on its website, the Cyberspace Administration of China says its offices should ensure that records are kept on the country’s many app stores. “Many apps…
The OpenDaylight Project, the open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks (SDN), said Chinese search engine Baidu has joined the project at the Silver level. This follows a recent announcement by Baidu to open source one of its key…
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has launched its first artificial intelligence-enabled store in the Chinese capital city and plans to further expand its layout of smart restaurants, creating more innovative and interesting dining experiences for customers. With…
Luxury brands need to use new technologies and offer experiences for their customers, the second Luxury Society keynote event in Shanghai has been told. UCO Cosmetics CEO Arthur Zhang told the event that the early-stage eCommerce model of simply providing a…
‘Boycott China’ messages may have become routine on WhatsApp in India. But in the startup world, India and China are drawing closer. Chinese firms and funds have become big investors in Indian startups , and they are becoming particularly useful now as US…
TravelersBox kiosks are being launched in Asian airports allowing travellers to deposit their leftover foreign coins into their preferred online accounts. More than 40 are expected to be service by the end of the year. TravelersBox is the first service…
Baidu is Qlik Sense to improve its cloud services platform and provide an enhanced data analytics experience to its customers. Qlik Sense will be integrated into Baidu Palo to enable self-service visualization analytics on the Palo OLAP engine, giving Chinese…
Some brands are even advertising via Snapchat. In a fast-paced and technologically-savvy city-state such as Singapore, brick and mortar shops of retailers, however traditional, may not be adequate anymore. According to a report by Cushman and Wakefield,…
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…
China’s retail sector shines China is facing an economic downturn, but Chinese consumers are hopeful about its economy. According to Boston Consulting Group, China’s total retail sales are forecasted to grow by 50% to $6.5 trillion by 2020 with online…
As more people start using their smartphones or the internet to order food, China’s eCommerce leaders are in a battle for supremacy. Now a food-delivery startup backed by Tencent Holdings, Ele.me, is planning a fast funding round of at least $1.25 billion, in…
The two Internet giants in China, Baidu and Amazon have reached in an agreement to strengthen their respective positions in the strong Chinese market.. The two companies, digital heavyweights, formalized the agreement Thursday, December 3, 2015 in a press…
China’s total retail sales of consumer goods rose 11.0% year-over-year (or YoY) to 2.8 trillion yuan in October. The data indicated better-than-expected growth in retail sales and a slight improvement from September’s rise of 10.9%.On a year-to-date (or YTD)…
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…
Chinese language web search engine Baidu has raised US$800,000 in simply an hour in a charity undertaking aimed toward serving to critically sick orphans. Baidu teamed up with 800,000 web sites and 50,000 app suppliers to kick off this yr’s “One Hour,One…
Alibaba and Tencent spent more than USD8 billion last year alone backing often strikingly similar ventures, as the Chinese Internet giants race to create online one-stop-shops to win the digital loyalty of a tenth of the world’s population. Before China…
