Today in News: Haidilao 海底捞 submitted IPO, Ofo is into blockchain research

OneSpace just launches the country's first private rocket, Walmart Q1 financial report is out

Today in News are brief updates by the BEAM team of what's happening in the business, finance, and technology space around the world (as well as in China). Download the BEAM App to get curated news like these from over 100 sources.

Around the world:

Apple sold an estimated 600,000 HomePod speakers in Q1 2018, equals 1/4 of Google Home Speaker’s and 15% of Amazon Echo
Google acquired Cask Data to beef up his tools for building and running big data analytics
Walmart Q1 financial report http://s2.q4cdn.com/056532643/files/doc_financials/2019/Q1/Q1FY19-Earnings-Release-Final.pdf
Twitter is going to limit the visibility of tweets from people behaving badly
Intel's Mobileye gets self-driving tech deal for 8 million cars

China:

Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and other Internet giants may become Foxconn’s strategic investors
Haidilao 海底捞 submitted IPO application in HongKong
Zhihu 知乎 disclosed that they have over 160 million users
Hainan Airlines will build a global aviation hub in Hainan, adding more routes and code sharing.
SAIC Motor is trying to do car-hailing business
Meituan’s new offline retail store 小象生鲜
泛阿网络 OneMena (Target Middle East, News and content platform) raised tens of millions USD led by IDG, followed by 快手 kuaishou and DotC.
OneSpace北京零壹空間 (China's SpaceX/Blue Origin) just launches the country's first private rocket

Blockchain: