Alibaba

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

China: Our big tech companies are hiring, not shrinking

Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy

Software11 Apr 2022 | 4

China's digital currency comes to WeChat. Next stop: over a billion users

For now, a mere 80 million more citizens can trial the Digital Yuan

Software08 Apr 2022 | 5

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 |

China's top e-tailer sends sacked staff a 'graduation certificate'

Massive job losses reported across Middle Kingdom's tech sector

Personal Tech29 Mar 2022 | 16

Alibaba opens DingTalk collaboration tool to enterprises and developers

Teams-like application boasts 500 million users, but Microsoft has more active users

Software28 Mar 2022 | 2

China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years

25 per cent CAGR will see $87 billion a year spent by 2026, says Canalys

Off-Prem24 Mar 2022 | 2

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm leaves Alibaba board to focus on his main job

Chinese giant expands share buyback program, Big E still working through corruption issues

PaaS + IaaS22 Mar 2022 |

Alibaba Cloud lets its tiny desktop-as-a-service client leave China

Singapore-only release means this is not a major move on the DaaS or VDI markets

Virtualization22 Mar 2022 |

Three Chinese web giants create streaming video 'standard'

Updated ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud team on improvement to WebRTC's startup times

Software11 Mar 2022 | 13

Alibaba smart electric vehicles now in mass production

Joins Xiaomi and Huawei in making EVs, but IM L7s not available on e-commerce sites yet

Edge + IoT07 Mar 2022 | 2

China makes using cryptocurrency a crime – again

In the Middle Kingdom DeFi is seen as defiance, not delightful disruption

Personal Tech25 Feb 2022 | 7

WeChat, AliExpress added to US Notorious Markets list

Trade watchdog admits China is #1 ... at cranking out counterfeit products, sometimes with forced labor

Legal18 Feb 2022 | 33

Alibaba gazes into crystal ball to spy coming advances in AI and silicon photonics

Machine learning to propel us into glorious era of scientific discovery

AI + ML14 Jan 2022 | 6

Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com

Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing

Off-Prem23 Dec 2021 | 3

Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j

Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong

Security23 Dec 2021 | 12

Chinese paper runs interview with Alibaba staffer who claims she was fired after exec rape claim

E-commerce giant's #metoo moment takes sinister turn

Legal13 Dec 2021 | 21

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 |

Alibaba teases a breakthrough chip, merging processor and memory

And open sources Yun on Chip IoT silicon and ecosystem

On-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 7

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'

Off-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 6