Rosensweig added that shareholders of the public company should love the news, as it will no longer be investing capital in physical textbooks, “and we will have the flexibility on our balance sheet to accelerate our investments in the high growth, high margin digital services that enable today’s self-directed learners.”
Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said the company will join hands with Guangzhou to strengthen cooperation in areas such as autonomous driving, intelligent connected vehicles and intelligent transport.
Retail sales in rural areas rose 9.1 percent year-on-year, outpacing the 8.3 percent expansion of retail sales in urban areas in the first half year.
Reviewing the global scene, the world's second-largest economy stands out all the more, the article added, calling China "indispensable" as other major economies are still "going the wrong way."
Returning to the production of 20 percent enriched uranium "bears messages for the United States," he said without elaboration.
Roberts joined with the court's liberal wing in delivering the court's 5-4 majority opinion.
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Revenues from online games dipped 10.7 percent in Q4, as NetEase's mobile games are contributing less income, compared with growth in advertising, e-mail, e-commerce and other areas.
Revenues of the catering sector, one of the worst-hit industries, fell 31.1 percent year-on-year in April, said the NBS.
Retail sales suffered a record 24.3 percent year-on-year decline in October, the fourth month of double-digit decline. Exports of goods were down 7.1 percent in the third quarter, while exports of services fell by 13.8 percent, the biggest drop since the second quarter of 2003. Overall investment expenditure plunged 16.3 percent, and home prices retreated by 5 percent in October from May.
Roger Sheng, vice-president of research at global consultancy Gartner Inc, said before considering the ban's possible impact on Huawei, a key question needing to be asked is whether the US government's long-arm jurisdiction can really cover all chip companies around the world.