China’s Baidu posts 25% rise quarterly revenue on ad, cloud boost
China’s Baidu Inc reported a 25% rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, powered by advertising on its core search and video-streaming platforms. The Beijing-based company’s aggressive push into cloud services, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and smart transport technology has helped grow its non-advertising revenue and offset competition to its core search platform from Alibaba and […]
Twitter is free to ban users
Jan Bouwens discusses the decision by Twitter and other social media platforms to ban President Trump and members of his campaign, and the objections to the bans raised by politicians. In January 2021, Chancellor Merkel and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire objected to the bans that social media platforms have imposed on certain users. The Economist reported that “even Alexei Navalny, a […]
