With an 80% share in the Chinese search engine market, Baidu is the undisputed leader in the region where Google has entry restrictions. Baidu is now looking at ways to retain its users when they travel to other countries where Google has a presence. The company recently announced that it had launched a desktop and mobile mapping service in Japan, Thailand, South Korea and Singapore where most Chinese tourists travel. Baidu wants to ensure that its users have access to its mapping service while travelling overseas to avoid the risk of losing them to other competitors such as Google. While this strategy should enable the company to protect is domestic market share we believe it also opens up avenues for the international expansion of Baidu, especially in regions where its local advantage can work in its favor.
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Recently Google announced that it is piloting an app called Hands Free which allows its mobile payment (Android Pay) users to pay in stores quickly and completely hands-free, through a voice command. The company stated that with this pilot, it wants to explore what the future of mobile payments could look like. The app is being piloted in the San Francisco area and is being rolled out to a small number of McDonald’s, Papa John’s and local eateries in the area. As Google focuses on launching Android Pay in several countries in 2016, increasing the convenience of mobile payments via Hands Free could give it a competitive edge and increase adoption. Google’s technology can provide enhanced security and convenience for the feature; however, user and retailer adoption is key for its success.

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As the corporate email situation grew increasingly desperate, you might expect LOBs to demand a solution from the IT department. However, much as a frog in gradually heating water won’t save itself from boiling, LOB employees didn’t call IT. Instead, IT brought them a solution in a surprisingly serendipitous manner.

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Over the past several years of testing, Google’s fleet of autonomous vehicles have been involved in a number of minor accidents, but up until now all of them were caused by human driven vehicles running into Google’s machines. That has now changed as an autonomous Lexus RX450h slowly ran into the side of Mountain View, Calif. transit bus. While autonomous vehicles like Google’s prototypes can often see a lot more than human drivers and respond properly, they can miss things that we do pick up on and that’s where vehicle-to-external (V2X) communications can help.

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Diego Dzodan says he was ‘treated with respect’ during his 24 hours behind bars, but it would have been impossible to hand over encrypted WhatsApp messages to officials.

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Since 2013, Robert Epstein and colleagues have conducted a number of experiments in the US and India to determine whether search results can impact people’s political opinions.

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Now that AT&T owns DirecTV, they have plans for several streaming packages for computer and mobile devices. But, baseball fans are still stuck paying for other services. Here’s the details.

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