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Searching giant Baidu and leading online retailer JD signed a strategic agreement today to jointly launch an innovative hardware open platform (source in Chinese). Projects that joined the program will be supported in terms of technologies, products, marketing channels, data, etc. All the smart devices incubated by the platform will use the logo of Baidu Inside and JD+, according to the report. Moreover, Baidu also planned to launch an official website for Baidu Inside brand to showcase products and provide marketing supports. JD is a popular e-commerce sales channel for smart hardware, like Hiwifi and STB developed by Skyworth and iQiyi.