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Innovation Ranking
NewInnovation Ranking – Baidu Inc
Baidu Inc (Baidu) is a provider of Chinese-language Internet search services. It offers a search engine that is a bundle of web search, video search, image search, news, web dictionary, top searches and search index and open platform. It also offers online marketing services and advertising services. Its products portfolio includes Baidu App, Hoakan, Quanmin, Baidu Wiki, Baidu Knows, Baidu Experience, Baidu Post, Baidu Union, DuerOS, Baidu Maps, and Baidu Health. The company also offers services such as P4P, Marketing...
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Company Insights
Innovation and Patenting activity of Baidu Inc Q4 2023
GlobalData, the industry analysis specialist, has released its latest company patent databook "Innovation and Patenting activity of Baidu Inc Q4 2023". The databook highlights patenting activity of the company in terms of growth in filings and grants, regions protected, impact of various themes, sector applicability of technologies protected. It provides contextual analysis of technical peers, their strategy, dominance (Grant share) and their recent activities. This is an on-demand databook that will be delivered upon request. The report will be delivered...
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Thematic Analysis
NewEcommerce Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Consumers expect a seamless digital experience when shopping online, and central to this is a safe and secure payment process. Digital payments is an important theme for ecommerce companies, with all of the top five companies in the thematic screen of GlobalData’s ecommerce sector scorecard scoring at least 4 out of 5 in this theme. Additionally, the top three ranked companies (Visa, Mastercard, and Klarna) all provide consumer payment services, highlighting the importance of this aspect of ecommerce.
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Thematic Analysis
NewAdvertising Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Advertising has been caught up in the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy and will be one of the industries most disrupted by AI. Generative AI is reshaping advertisers’ practices through tailored, effective ads and dynamic campaigns that evolve according to consumer response. As a result, the relationship between technology, artists, and brands paying for campaigns will profoundly change over the coming years. There is a real concern that advertisers will divert their money into AI-generated art rather than paying artists and...
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Thematic Analysis
NewApplication Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring well in the artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s application software sector scorecard. This screen is dominated by the large US cloud vendors (Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet), but also includes leading enterprise software companies such as IBM, SAP, and Infor, as well as Apple. There have been minor score changes for companies such as Broadcom, OpenText, and Software AG due to their divestitures following recent acquisitions.
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Thematic Analysis
NewCloud Services Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
The thematic screen of GlobalData’s cloud services sector scorecard is led by the global hyperscalers Microsoft and Amazon, with Alphabet and IBM also in the top 10. Microsoft and Alphabet, in particular, are aggressively investing in generative artificial intelligence (AI), developing foundational large language models (LLM), and building the infrastructure to offer related services to customers. In recent months, Alphabet launched its Gemini AI model, Microsoft launched its own AI chips and also invested in Mistral, and Microsoft’s strategic partner...
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Thematic Analysis
NewSemiconductors Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring strongly in artificial intelligence (AI) and geopolitics-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s semiconductors sector scorecard. Indeed, the AI, AI chips, geopolitics, and China impact themes jointly account for 50% of the weighting of the thematic screen, reflecting both the growing importance of AI, particularly generative AI, in the industry and the impact of the ongoing US-China trade dispute. Among the thematic leaders are companies with either advanced AI products, such as Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, and Alibaba,...
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Thematic Analysis
NewGeopolitics in Tech, Media and Telecom (TMT) – Thematic Intelligence
Geopolitics in Tech, Media and Telecom (TMT) Thematic Report Overview A world with slower growth and heightened geopolitical tensions is making the operating environment for tech, media, and telecom (TMT) companies riskier, more complex, and costlier. The global supply chains organized to optimize profit and speed, which ruled international trade for two decades under globalization, have been twisted out of shape. The geopolitical factors impacting the TMT sector include US-China, Europe, India, the Middle East, and Latin America. The Geopolitics...