Common takes us cross-country for a whirlwind promotional tour. We’re Embedded with him at morning radio shows, record store signings and on stage.
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ODU Provost Carol Simpson and the Center for Learning Technologies presents Conversations on Teaching and Learning, a speaker series designed to provide faculty members from across the campus with the opportunity to share, think and reflect on a wide range of teaching and learning issues. This p...
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Think back to the first few years of Baidu. What were the three strategy decisions--or pick any number--that you now recognize in hindsight were both pivot points of inflection points that really changed the trajectory of the company? Robin Li: Sure. That’s a very good question. It's very critic...
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What it is about Baidu and the Chinese search market that’s allowed Baidu to become much more successful than Google and Yahoo! in China? Specifically, what is it that American companies that, both then and now, still don't understand about China that you think you do and they don't? Robin Li: ...
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But in any case, I thought I had no choice. So I put my head down and focused on operation technology, focused on the user’s experience, and I delivered. At the time of the IPO, Baidu had about 40% of the traffic share in China for Chinese search. Four years later, as of today, I think ...
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In this exclusive Tour Stop outtake, Lykke Li talks about what music she listens to when she wants to chill (Nina Simone) and what she likes when she’s ready
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About a year ago, we started a project called Aladdin. It’s really a technology initiative that's aimed to index the "dark" web or the hidden web, because according to computer scientists, right now the conditional search engines only index about 1% of the information on the Internet. The rest 9...
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From an investment perspective, we’ve invested quite a bit in open sourced models. J Boss and Zen Source are two recent ones, and a slope of others. And I think open source is not a model for every business, so don't every go start of with open source businesses. But I think there are certain dy...
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I would say more entrepreneurs are commandos like Ashwin. The reality is we got comfortable on a couple of dimensions. One is we saw that there’s a huge opportunity here, with some really fundamental deep technology, solving a really big problem. That's kind of the first order bit that you have ...
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It’s not a million-dollar question. It's a trillion-dollar question. I think many of the Chinese are very eager to find out what it takes to form a Silicon Valley in China, especially for the government officials. During the past 30 years, China maintained a very high growth rate in terms of GDP...
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You know, Baidu was founded at the beginning of 2000, and quickly NASDAQ reached its historical high of 5,000. I remember it was March of 2000. Then it dropped to about 1100 a little over a year later. That is a very difficult time for people in the Internet industry. I think it’s much severe th...
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