Previously, the company has also purchased German's KraussMaffei Group. Also, Chinese companies investment overseas is growing.
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JD Finance, JD.com subsidiary raises $1 billion
JD.com, China’s largest online direct sales company, has raised $1 billion, for its JD Finance subsidiary from investors including Sequoia Capital China, China Harvest Investments and China Taiping Insurance.
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Robots, Automation and Artificial Intelligence to replace Human Jobs According to The World Economic Forum
With the advancement of technologies, businesses would prefer robots or artificial intelligence as workers. However, the industries would still need growing numbers of certain skilled workers.
Spotify and Genius Collaboration: Displaying lyrics and facts on your screen
Spotify and Genius work together to provide a better and deeper music experience for their users. Fact Tracks shows lyrics, along with annotations from the community or the artist itself.
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TrueBridge Capital Partners announced the closing of its fourth venture capital fund-of-funds on January 13. The fourth fund-of-funds is secured at its $400 million hard cap.
The video streaming company, Netflix prepares a huge amount of dollar for its content: $6 billion. The amount will be spent on 600 hours of original program. Netflix currently launches an aggressive global expansion which bothers many local content providers.
Airbus partnered with Uber to provide on-demand helicopter rides to people using its H125 and H130 choppers.
Microsoft is planning to bring its Windows Phone keyboard Word Flow to the iPhone, and is now recruiting iPhone users to test a beta version of the software.
Russia’s Rosneft OJSC is suffering more due to the below $30 crude oil prices than its privately owned counterpart Lukoil PJSC, which seems to be showing more resilience.
Brent oil drops to $28 per barrel as Iran increases production and exports after international sanctions against the country were lifted.
