Bloomberg-Baidu Inc. (BIDU)’s travel-booking website, China’s biggest, expects to double sales this year to about 1 billion yuan ($160 million) helped by an expanding middle class and rising use of its mobile application.
Currently, the govt of India banned 118 Chinese apps such as PUBG, Baidu, VooV, Cut Cut, Zakzak, Rise of Kingdoms, and others.
While tech giants in the West squabble over who owns what propitiatory tech one of their Chinese competitors has decided to do the opposite. The Chinese technology firm Baidu has announced the “Apollo” project. With the aim of making all of their self driving tech open source and available to the automotive industry at large.
MIT Technology Review
China’s leading Internet search company, Baidu, says that data collected from its customers could be used to predict and preëmpt potentially deadly crowd gatherings in the real world.
Baidu has an incredible amount of data to mine. Out of a total population of 1.35 billion in China, more than 657 million people use its services. And some 302 million use its map services each month.
