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Baidu, Tencent retreat from US$3b tie-up
Published Wed, Aug 3, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
BAIDU INC and Tencent Holdings Ltd have pulled out of a US$3 billion venture with one of China's richest men, barely two years after it was launched with the ambition of revolutionising mall shopping.
China's largest search engine and its top Internet company teamed up with billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group to set up ffan.com in 2014. At the time, they talked about how the ventur…
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