ByteDance quietly launches its Wukong search engine in China, promising no ads in its results, days after Tencent shut down its Sogou search app
ByteDance , owner of the hit short video app TikTok , has quietly launched a new search engine that promises no advertisements in a cyberspace …
Tencent to take NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou private in a $3.5B deal; Tencent previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July
Tencent offered to buy out and take private NYSE-listed Chinese search giant Sogou for $2.1B; Tencent owns about 39% of Sogou and has majority voting power
- The WeChat operator is bidding $9 per ADS for Sohu's unit — Chinese tech firms are increasingly exploring U.S. delistings
Local reports say Apple has removed 700+ apps, including apps by Sogou and Pinduoduo, from the Chinese App Store for pushing app updates without Apple's review
Apple has removed hundreds of iPhone apps from its App Store in China, in the company's latest crackdown in one of its biggest markets.
China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou
- AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system
Chinese search engine Sogou closes up 4% on its first day of trading on the NYSE, at a market cap of around $5.3B, after raising $585M in its IPO
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Sogou, a Chinese search engine backed by Tencent, sets its US IPO price range to $11 to $13 per share, plans to raise up to $585M
Sogou Inc., the Chinese search engine backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., aims to raise as much as $585 million in a U.S. initial public offering.
Microsoft extends map site to China, sort of includes Taiwan
Microsoft has launched Live Search 地图, the China branch of its Virtual Earth project. — Compared to Google's ditu.google.cn and Sogou's (搜狗) map.sogou.com, the seems about the same, if a little fast...