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Walmart, JD back online grocer
Aug 10, 2018
Chinese online grocery and delivery company Dada-JD Daojia announced on Thursday it had raised $500 million from US-based retail giant Walmart Inc and Chinese e-commerce behemoth JD in its latest round of financing.
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Beijing's AI tech luring global investors
Aug 9, 2018
The $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund is seeking to buy more than one billion dollars' shares of SenseTime, a Beijing-based AI startup, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Fangshan to upgrade smart manufacturing
Aug 9, 2018
The Zhongguancun Frontier Technology Salon and Smart Manufacturing Industry Conference were held in Beijing's Fangshan district on Aug 3.
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Sina, Weibo report strong Q2 financial results
Aug 9, 2018
Chinese internet company Sina Corp and its social media platform Weibo Corp both reported strong second quarter growth on Wednesday, according to the two Nasdaq-listed companies' financial reports.
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China will give international students work options
Aug 8, 2018
China will allow international students at Chinese universities nationwide to take part-time jobs during their studies to make the country's higher educational system more attractive, the Ministry of Education said in a statement provided to China Daily exclusively.
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Google 'to offer mainland cloud services'
Aug 8, 2018
Google Inc is in talks with Tencent Holdings Ltd, Inspur Group and other Chinese companies to offer its cloud services in the world's second-largest economy, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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JD alliance to launch smart trucks soon
Aug 8, 2018
JD Logistics, the delivery arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD, has announced a joint venture with transport company Juma Logistics, logistics firm GLP and domestic carmaker Welt-Meister, to develop smart trucks.
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Language the next frontier of artificial intelligence
Aug 7, 2018
In the near future, news anchors face the prospect of being replaced by virtual anchors while you won't realize it at all, through artificial intelligence, including the process of lip motion synthesis, speech synthesis, joint modeling of audio and video, and in-depth learning.