Last month at the GeekWire Summit Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta said Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods for .7 billion would be a “blessing in disguise” for his company. Turns out he was on to something.
Last year Amazon invested in Plant Prefab, a Rialto, Calif.-based startup that builds prefabricated single and multi-family homes. The company also continues developing Alexa-enabled products for the home, including its Echo speakers, and acquired home security company Ring last year. It competes with Google and Apple in the growing smart home market.
Last year, BMW authored a white paper on autonomous driving safety with Chinese companies including Baidu. It also inked deals with China Unicom in terms of 5G services and NavInfo in high-precision maps. In the same year, it joined hands with Tencent to build a high-performance, data-driven development platform.
Last year, ICBC established a specialized company in Hong Kong for its internationalized asset management business. Only one year after it started, assets under management of the company have reached over HK0 billion (.74 billion).
Large numbers of employees working from home would likely hurt businesses dependent on an influx of office workers five days a week, including restaurants, delis and retail shops in business districts.
Laos detected three more confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, with its total number rising to six, Lao Deputy Health Minister Phouthone Moungpak said.
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Last month, I took a weeklong trip to the Yellow River's second-largest tributary, the Fenhe River in Shanxi province.
Last week, the government urged the country's technology trinity-namely Tencent, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Baidu Inc-and iFlytek Co Ltd to delve into research of AI-powered medical diagnosis, civic services, autonomous driving and voice recognition.
Lao Dongyan, a professor of law from Tsinghua University, called for stricter regulations on facial recognition in the collection, storage and use of biological information.
Last month's staging of Farewell My Concubine, featuring actors based in Hong Kong, including Keith Lai as Xiang Yu and Janet Wong as Yu Ji, was adapted from the classic Chinese story set against the backdrop of conflict between the Han and the Chu, major contending powers in the latter years of the Qin Dynasty (221206 BC).