China’s biggest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), is hosting its annual Baidu World event today, so new features are being dished out like free coffee. Here’s another. Baidu Maps has gotten a couple of pretty sweet new features in the form of a highly-detailed 3D digitized landscape for some cities – sort of like in the game Sim City. At full zoom, you can make out Mao’s portrait very clearly atop Tian’anmen, or see the cherry trees in bloom outside a hall in Shanghai. Read More
