Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an extremely wideranging term that can mean different things to different people. For some of us in India, it conjures an image of Chitti, the humanoid robot played by the Indian superstar Rajnikanth in the movie Robot.
Jun 22, 2018
According to a reporter from Forbes on September 12, “A global power shift in the technology sector is underway… China has moved from imitator to innovator, and in the new era of fintech, biotech and machine learning, I expect it to take a global leading role.”
Oct 13, 2017
Google left China five years ago after disputes over censorship with the Chinese government, but according to a report published on (www.time.com/4023367/google-china/) September 4th, the Californian company will be returning to the Chinese mainland shortly. According to western critics, Google is planning on doing a U-turn back by reentering the Chinese market, which ironically makes their previous choice seem nothing more than some bad drama. In 2010, the world famous IT giant withdrew its core search engine from Chinese mainland with a clear and tough attitude – much to the shock of China’s internet industry. So, why does Google actually want to come back to China? We can probably find out what has Google missed during its absence. In 2008, China had 118 million mobile internet users, the figure increased to 557 million in 2014. As a result, dozens of entrepreneurial internet-based firms such as Didi Da Che( an app for booking taxis) have mushroomed with the help of the local giants like Tecent, Baidu and Ali. As result, this greatly changed the ways of that Chinese people shop, eat out and commute. Although Google’s dissatisfaction of the censorship seemed unsolvable, it is not the only company that faces the contradiction between the globalized corporation principles and the local censorship. IT companies like Microsoft, Apple and LinkedIn all paved their […]
Sep 11, 2015