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Quick Take: Baidu Acquires xPerception as Competition in Sensory Computing Heats Up

Blog post by Zach Fuller

14 Apr 2017

Alibaba

Amazon Echo

Apple

Chinese tech giant Baidu announced today they will be acquiring xPerception, in what can be interpreted as a strategic play for the Augmented Reality market. At face value, xPerception covers much of 2017...

Four Companies That Could Buy Spotify

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Feb 2017

1 billion

21st Century Fox

Alibaba

For much of 2016 it looked nailed on that Spotify would IPO in 2017 and that the recorded music industry would move onto its next chapter, for better or for worse. The terms of Spotify’s $1 billion debt...

The Chinese Online Video Landscape Is About To Change

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2016

Baidu

China

iQiYi

Last Friday, Baidu, the Chinese tech group mainly known for its leading search engine in the Chinese market, announced that it was effectively spinning off Qiyi (recently rebranded to the domestic market...