Alibaba

Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb

Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan

Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 |

Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year

And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout

Systems20 Mar 2024 | 8

India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs

Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea

AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2

Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition

Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines

AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |

South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China

Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too

Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |

China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence

Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too

Software11 Mar 2024 | 7

Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units

Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts

Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |

China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas

If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market

Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 6

Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university

Three guesses where DAMO plans to focus research from now on. Yep, you guessed it...AI

HPC27 Nov 2023 | 2

Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions

Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down

PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2

China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile

Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6

Dirty dancing grabs the attention of China's cyberspace regulators

Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services

Security02 Nov 2023 | 6

China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears

Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle

Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 12

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

SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe

Asia In Brief PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more!

Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2

Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky?

Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8

Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is

Summer push proved less disruptive than feared

OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40

Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits

What? How?

Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4

Alibaba opts out of Ant Group stock buyback

Sign of confidence or … something bigger?

Systems24 Jul 2023 | 1

China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent

Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO

Networks10 Jul 2023 | 1

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

Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months

Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1

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 and Huawei set to debut generative AI chatbots

China's tech giants show, yet again, they're as much a slave to Silicon Valley fashion as anyone

AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 21

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

Jack Ma is back, and he has some feelpinions to share

Offering wisdom on AI signals the Alibaba boss is in Beijing's good books again

AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 12

China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency

Asia In Brief Plus: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more

Science06 Mar 2023 | 21

Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID

Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye

Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3

Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing

After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers

Software17 Jan 2023 | 2

Beijing official says crackdown on tech companies is over

We might be looking at a new China for 2023 and the Year of the Rabbit

Legal10 Jan 2023 | 3

Alibaba's Jack Ma out as boss of fintech Ant Group

'Corporate governance optimization' sees founder's role reduced, but not in pursuit of a listing

Legal09 Jan 2023 | 3

Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips

PRC and chums see open-source chip architecture as safer alternative to Arm

Systems01 Dec 2022 | 11

Alibaba hides 11.11 shopping festival sales figures for the first time

PLUS: US/Singapore CBDC trial; Digital Ocean down under; Boeing's Indonesian touchdown; and more

Off-Prem13 Nov 2022 | 3

Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans

Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street

AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 62

China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators

Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation

Software28 Sep 2022 | 3

Beijing signals Digital Yuan will integrate with existing payment schemes

It needs to, because the likes of Alipay are already ubiquitous – and already used overseas

Software13 Sep 2022 | 3

Alibaba Cloud launches RISC-V developer platform for edge SoCs

Says it's already used Wujian 600 to pull up its own SoC

Systems25 Aug 2022 | 2

China cybersecurity regulator wants to support tech growth

New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down

Legal23 Aug 2022 | 2

Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition

OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible

Databases16 Aug 2022 | 7

China's internet regulator details algorithms used by local Big Tech players

Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and censor content

Software15 Aug 2022 | 5

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

Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans

Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too

Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 3

Alibaba mimics Amazon by slashing jobs after poor results

Covid lockdowns, Chinese regulations and SEC threats make Alibaba's job numbers worrying

Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 4

Alibaba's e-commerce arm counts carbon to encourage you to buy more stuff

Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts

Software09 Aug 2022 | 6

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity

Off-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 4

US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting

Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC

Legal01 Aug 2022 | 23

Alibaba to upgrade its Hong Kong listing to parity with New York

And ponders more listings in China – the day after Beijing announces super-regulator for tech

Legal26 Jul 2022 | 2

Alibaba affiliate Ant Group open sources its privacy software and a 'Secure Processing Unit'

Well, that's one way to ensure it is more widely used ...

Security05 Jul 2022 | 1

Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools

Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies

Software30 Jun 2022 | 1

Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man

Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death

Offbeat09 Jun 2022 | 40

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 opens up code for federated learning platform

Claims FederatedScope is easy to use and keeps training data private

AI + ML06 May 2022 |

Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

DingTalk goes into 'extended reality'

Personal Tech06 May 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