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Baidu sues Tencent, Sohu for reputation infringement

Chinese search giant Baidu is suing internet juggernauts Tencent and Sohu for reputation infringement.

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Baidu gears up driverless technology

Baidu Inc has added fuel to its effort to put driverless cars into mass production within five years with its multimillion dollar investment on Tuesday in a major US producer of lidar sensors, a key technology that helps the cars "see" their surrounding environment by using light to measure distance.

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Baidu posts biggest profit decline since going public

Baidu Inc, China’s largest Internet search company, posted its steepest-ever quarterly profit decline and slowest growth in revenue in nearly eight years, hit by a healthcare scandal that ensnared the company this year.

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Major Baidu shareholder challenges sale of iQiyi to chairman Robin Li

​New York hedge fund Acacia says in open letter the purchase of China’s leading online video subsidiary, not in shareholders’ interests

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Baidu under investigation for advertising gambling

Chinese search engine giant Baidu is being investigated for allegedly advertising gambling websites, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) confirmed Tuesday.

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Chinese search giant Baidu forms new online car insurance business

Internet search titan Baidu is poised to ratchet up its expansion in China’s nascent online insurance market through a new alliance with China Pacific Property Insurance.

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Baidu's objectivity compromised by profit model: investigation

​The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Monday demanded an overhaul of China's leading search-engine Baidu following an investigation.

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China's Baidu search draws unusually loud outcry after student's death

Sponsored results in China’s dominant search engine can be hard to distinguish, users say

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China shows new style of governance in handling student death

​The nationwide uproar following the death of a young university student is uncommon in recent years as angry posts and messages keep pouring into China's social media.

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Baidu in spotlight over ad scandal

One of the largest sources of internet giant Baidu Inc's revenue has been put under threat as a government investigation looks into the company's search business after the death of a cancer-stricken college student.

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Spoon Business Reviews|Baidu's“moral dilemma”—How a cancer case aroused national attention

After a glorious financial quarter and the stock price up from its trough in February, Baidu faced perhaps the strongest public scrutiny ever, due to a cancer death case of a college student, Wei Zexi, who was treated in a privately contracted hospital (public in name) recommended by Baidu.

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The Baidu disconnect

​Just days after Baidu chief executive Robin Li said the company had "an excellent start to 2016," its public image has taken a huge battering.

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Baidu develops AI algorithm to predict crowds, avoid stampedes

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has developed a machine-learning algorithm that predicts whether crowds are likely to form at certain locations in two hours, which could be used to prevent stampedes.

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Crowd control? Baidu has an algorithm for that

A unit of Chinese internet giant Baidu has developed an algorithm that can predict crowd formation, which it says could be used to help warn authorities and individuals of unusually large crowds that could lead to public-safety threats.

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Baidu to test drive autonomous cars in the U.S.

Baidu will soon start testing autonomous cars in the U.S., part of the Chinese tech giant’s effort to introduce a commercially viable model by 2018.