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World’s most valuable AI startup SenseTime unveils self-driving center in Japan
The world’s highest-valued artificial intelligence startup SenseTime has set foot in Japan. The Beijing-based firm announced on Friday that it…
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China’s Baidu says its answer to Alexa is now on 200M devices
A Chinese voice assistant has been rapidly gaining ground in recent months. DuerOS, Baidu’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa, reached over…
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How a Chinese anti-virus software maker builds a fintech firm to wrestle with giants
360 Finance, an online consumer loan platform that spun off from China’s anti-virus service giant 360 Group, has joined a…
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China’s JD.com teams up with Intel to develop ‘smart’ retail experiences
Months after it landed a major $550 million investment from Google, China’s JD.com — the country’s second highest-profile investor behind…
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Tencent-backed fleet manager G7 racks up $320M in funding
A sizable funding round is poised to heat up a race to automate China’s logistics infrastructure. Beijing-based fleet management company G7…
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Still a year away from launch, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi keeps adding talent
Video won’t start rolling on Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new bite-sized streaming service with the billion-dollar backing until the…
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JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music
India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn, the startup it acquired earlier…
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Alibaba’s speech recognition algorithm can isolate voices in noisy crowds
Chinese conglomerate Alibaba is one of the world’s largest ecommerce companies, but increasingly, it’s turning its attention to artificial intelligence…
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China leaves Huawei founder off honor roll marking 40 years of economic success
In the lead up to China’s 40th anniversary of reforms and opening up, People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling…
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Finance
WeChat e-wallet teams up with Line to target Japan’s 7M Chinese tourists
China’s biggest chat app WeChat is set to make its payments service more ubiquitous in Japan, a popular outbound desitnation…
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