Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions
Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
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Alibaba’s hyperscale cloud
Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall
Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm
Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO
Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected
Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 1
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses
Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal
Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits
What? How?
Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4
Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud
Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines
Off-Prem21 Jun 2023 | 1
BROADER TOPICS
Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months
Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1
US sanctions cut Huawei profits by half in first quarter
The Chinese tech giant has 'yet again increased investment in R&D' to make up for technology losses
Networks28 Apr 2023 | 10
China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers
Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO
PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |
Alibaba Cloud to offer custom LLMs-as-a-service
'Tongyi Qianwen' will drive cloud consumption, industry-specific AI, and smarter smart speakers
AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 3
Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits
Cloud and AI bundled into an entity that’s free to seek its own funds or list
Off-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 4
AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service
Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more
Software16 Jan 2023 | 1
Refrigeration failure at Hong Kong datacenter takes out Alibaba Cloud and others
Unlike Oracle and Google, this time there's no heatwave to blame
Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 1
Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that – trust us – won't take your jobs
Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights
Networks08 Nov 2022 | 14
Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025
Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures
PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4
Alibaba Cloud goes even more serverless as it tries to become a utility
Laptop-shaped thin client tied to DaaS also illustrates the concept, and its downsides
Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 2
Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral
AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry
Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7
Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research
Asia In Brief Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more
Security16 Oct 2022 | 5
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'
It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts
Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1
SoftBank offloads part of Alibaba stake to raise much-needed cash
Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now
Off-Prem11 Aug 2022 | 9
China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba
Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity
Off-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 4
Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak
Asia In Brief Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors
Security18 Jul 2022 | 2
Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions
Microsoft, Amazon and Google all have products showing the damage you do and now so does Softbank offshoot
PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 4
TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look
Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year
Legal20 Jun 2022 | 9
Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS with its own custom smartNIC
Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next?
Networks14 Jun 2022 |
Alibaba continues international expansion – adds two datacenters and a bank
Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore
Off-Prem08 Jun 2022 |
Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits
Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride
Off-Prem27 May 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany
More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1
Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft
Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4
Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
Cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are operational – maybe China’s wider tech independence plan is, too
OSes27 Apr 2022 | 5
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba makes 9 datacenter energy patents available
Part of a Low Carbon Patent Pledge with Meta, Microsoft, and others
Systems22 Apr 2022 | 7
Alibaba Cloud's homegrown Arm CPUs emerge in VM trial
Yitian 710 chip boasts 128 Armv9 cores, available to test
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 | 4
Alibaba Cloud opens first South Korean datacenter
Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there
Off-Prem31 Mar 2022 |
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