Jia Yueting’s personal bankruptcy and reorganization formally entered the effective process.
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The settlement work of BOC “Crude Oil Treasure” is still in progress. Some investors hope to be able to clearly divide the responsibilities and obligations of both parties before they can accept compensation. Some investors also said, “We will not accept the settlement agreement because the content of the settlement cannot be accepted by us.” Several analysts in the futures industry said that “Crude Oil” is essentially a trading channel and belongs to the agency. The overseas futures and derivatives business is not a simple financial product for financial institutions. (Securities Daily)
I learned from people familiar with the matter that Toutiao is supporting a catering brand called Kubox. According to the person familiar with the matter, QuTiaoTuan has set up a library box for taking meals at the Shanghai headquarters office, and will issue coupons to employees every day to encourage ordering on this platform. Kubox is a catering service platform mainly for urban white-collar workers. The delivery address is also specified in the scope of deliverable offices. At the same time, Kubox is not a food delivery service platform for merchants, but a self-service catering platform with a complete supply chain. The service scope covers everything from catering production and packaging to final delivery. (Interface)
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We learned that on May 22, WeChat released the “Mini Program Live Broadcast Progress Report”. The briefing shows that since the public beta of the small program live broadcast in February 2020, the number of open broadcast merchants has grown rapidly, and a single live broadcast room has been shared up to 200,000 times. Among them, the scale of single-user live broadcast orders in April increased by 220% month-on-month. The data shows that the number of live streaming merchants that opened the mini program in April has increased by 90% month-on-month, and the average daily live streaming time of the merchant has doubled from the previous month. The live streaming time on May 1st was nearly 5000 hours.
Apple ’s new patent: auto window color adjustment, also adjustable reflectivity and haze
According to foreign media, Apple has recently been granted several patents related to the Titan project, one of which is called “Adjustable Window System” and can be used in “vehicles and buildings.” The adjustable window may have an adjustable color layer, an adjustable reflectivity layer, and an adjustable haze layer. Each adjustable layer will be combined with one or more transparent structural layers (such as a pair of glass window layers). (Geshi Automobile)
Tencent 27 papers selected for ACL 2020
I learned that the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Conference (ACL, The Association forComputational Linguistics) announced the ACL 2020 list of papers on the official website, with a total of 779 papers. According to incomplete statistics, this time Tencent has a total of 27 papers selected, 20 from the Tencent AI Lab team, and 7 from the WeChat AI team. The research directions include dialogue and text generation, machine translation and text understanding, information extraction, unsupervised text, etc Multiple NLP focus areas.
Ctrip acquires Dutch OTA group Travix
Ctrip confirmed that the company and BCD Group completed the transaction on Travix in April this year, which has been owned by Ctrip Group. It is understood that Travix’s business covers the European, American, and Asian markets. Through this transaction, Ctrip obtained multiple travel brands such as Vayama, Vliegwinkel, and CheapTickets.nl. (Finance Association)
Panasonic will close the Thai home appliance factory and shift production to Vietnam
Panasonic Corporation announced on the 21st that in March 2021 it will close the Thai factory that manufactures washing machines and refrigerators, and shift its production functions to the Vietnam factory. Panasonic proposed a plan to cut costs by 100 billion yen (approximately RMB 6.7 billion) in the three years to March 2022, and this adjustment is also part of the plan. With the rise of overseas manufacturers such as China, the price competition of white goods has become increasingly fierce. Panasonic hopes to improve cost competitiveness by improving the procurement efficiency of parts and components. (Kyodo News)