Alibaba

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more

Off-Prem19 Nov 2021 | 5

Beijing orders Alibaba, Tencent, more Big Tech to stop blocking links to rivals

Play nice or else, Chinese government tells app, web giants in meeting without coffee

Personal Tech14 Sep 2021 | 10

Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager

Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report

SaaS08 Sep 2021 | 6

Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China

AI + ML24 Aug 2021 | 38

Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation

Pledges to 'strengthen organizational guardrails' with raft of new policy and training initiatives

Legal13 Aug 2021 | 10

Naughty karaoke is China's next tech crackdown target

Work drinking culture also criticised in wake of Alibaba sex assault scandal

Bootnotes12 Aug 2021 | 33

Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague

Chinese netizens and State media unleash as it emerges web giant lacks formal sexual harassment policy

Legal09 Aug 2021 | 31

Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers

Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed

Security16 Jun 2021 | 1

China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips

Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time

Personal Tech08 Jun 2021 | 18

Generous Alibaba to scatter 0.9% of annual revenue over Southeast Asia to develop tech talent and infrastructure

Also announces buttload of new products at Cloud Summit event

Off-Prem08 Jun 2021 | 8

Beijing gives Ant Group the blessing to operate a consumer finance company

After some heated exchanges, tensions seem to have cooled (for now) between Chinese government and Jack Ma’s empire

Legal04 Jun 2021 |

Alibaba Cloud growth slows after mystery international customer - maybe ByteDance - quits over ‘non-product related’ factors

Updated First loss as a listed company thanks to Beijing’s $2.8bn antitrust fine

Off-Prem14 May 2021 |

China cracks down on ‘excessive’ user data harvesting, gives 33 apps ten days to clean up their acts

Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu among those in strife

Legal03 May 2021 | 20

China cracks down on web infomercials, which means more compliance chores for Alibaba

Proper customer protections now required, local authorities urged to make new rules stick

Off-Prem26 Apr 2021 | 3

Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks

Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up

Columnists13 Apr 2021 | 9

China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules

Alibaba takes it on the chin, apologises, promises to do better (and maybe feels it got off lightly with fine of 4% of revenue)

Legal12 Apr 2021 | 16

Alibaba Cloud quietly tests desktops-as-a-service

In seven flavours, accessible from Windows or macOS, with Active Directory support and USB passthrough

Off-Prem11 Mar 2021 | 5

China sets new rules for Ant Group to play by if it wants to think again about a float

Banks given limits to their involvement with web giants’ online lending operations

Personal Tech22 Feb 2021 | 3

Alibaba Cloud turns its first-ever profit, shows its sales are a fifth of that of Amazon Web Services

Signals analytics, not IaaS, is the opportunity it wants to chase

SaaS03 Feb 2021 |

Where in the world is Jack Ma? Alibaba tycoon not seen since October after slamming Chinese government

A new year, another, er, billionaire goes missing?

SaaS05 Jan 2021 | 28

New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos

As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle

Legal04 Jan 2021 | 13

Alibaba Cloud sets its VMware partnership snowballing with hybrid storage appliances

Reveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em

Storage17 Dec 2020 |

China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone

Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier

PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2020 | 8

China 'firmly opposes' India's new round of app bans, says it has violated trade laws

Left last couple of bans alone but now says national security argument is bogus and calls for mutual co-operation

Software26 Nov 2020 | 11

India takes aim at Alibaba with new round of Chinese app bans

43 apps axed, including those helping buyers and sellers of digital tat bazaar

Software25 Nov 2020 | 4

Alibaba chief says China's new internet laws aren’t just good, they’re right and welcome and necessary

As Beijing brings in another that regulates internet infomercials and stops teens buying their tat

Legal24 Nov 2020 | 14

FYI: Alibaba Cloud says it has robot sysadmins that swap faulty disks in four minutes

Video Plus liquid cooling to hit 580k orders/second on record $75bn 11.11 shopping bonanza day

SaaS12 Nov 2020 | 18

China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade

Share prices of China’s internet giants slump in wake of call for comment

Legal11 Nov 2020 | 5

Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry

11.11 event should be four times bigger than Amazon Prime Day

On-Prem03 Nov 2020 | 20

Cloud revenue equation: One AWS equals Azure + Google + Alibaba

Pandemic makes for huge growth, but one customer remains elusive: Facebook plans $23bn new infrastructure spend

SaaS30 Oct 2020 | 3

Alibaba’s Ant Group aims to carry away $34 billion with imminent listing

Alipay operator prices itself as most expensive IPO of all time

On-Prem27 Oct 2020 | 1

Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan

Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter

Personal Tech16 Oct 2020 | 1

Alibaba and pals grab £35m in Jisc contracts to give overseas students access to UK courses during pandemic

Bulk of deal focuses on secure, high-performance connectivity to China

Networks09 Oct 2020 | 8

Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud

Pitches tiny 'cloud computer' that streams apps and OSes over WiFi and hooks up to USB-C displays

SaaS18 Sep 2020 | 54

Alibaba’s payment service Ant fears being crushed by US bans on China trade

IPO filing spells out fears of being denied tech, cash and people

On-Prem27 Aug 2020 | 2

Alibaba and its cloud are growing like a weed, but the cloud is losing money

‘Fluid situation’ with USA not overly worrying CEO, who says company will comply with any new rules

SaaS21 Aug 2020 | 3

Donald Trump thought-bubbles an Alibaba ban as Chinese clouds clam up about Clean Cloud plan

President says ‘other’ Chinese companies could feel the ban-hammer

SaaS17 Aug 2020 | 41

How to democratise IT: Tech big four hoover 63% of global cloudy infrastructure spending

No, we have not used the term 'digital transformation'... oh bugger

SaaS31 Jul 2020 |

Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers

Payments giant could be worth $200 billion

On-Prem21 Jul 2020 | 4

Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers

Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei

Databases13 Jul 2020 | 1

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stops shining on Alibaba's board

'My work here is done, but my day job just got complicated' is the gist of it

On-Prem25 Jun 2020 |

China's clouds have hyperscale parents and global ambition – but are they contenders for your apps?

Yes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don't expect a comfortable ride

SaaS26 May 2020 |

Alibaba Cloud revenue grows 62% – but it's still just a sixth the size of AWS

But company reckons things are just getting started in China

SaaS25 May 2020 | 9

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

Hey Tmall Genie, spike my cholesterol, then coalesce my web empire with voice commands

Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 4

Singapore’s mega-investment firm Temasek joins Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency effort

To facilitate global payments, which is surely of interest to an investor in Alibaba

Science18 May 2020 | 2

Alibaba takes VMware where AWS and Microsoft don't – behind the Great Firewall

Only in China ‘for the moment’ which leaves the world to conquer

SaaS30 Apr 2020 |

With the economy in turmoil, Alibaba to spend big on pipes and plumbing to catch up with Western rivals

Chinese retail-'n'-cloud giant to splash $28bn as coronavirus pushes the online markets up

SaaS20 Apr 2020 | 2

The winners and losers of infrastructure clouds revealed: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba get fatter

Can you smell the democratisation of IT? Neither can the shrinking 'others' section

SaaS04 Feb 2020 | 14

Oh cool, Alibaba's first home-grown AI chip. Oh wait, it's only for its own cloud servers... for now

The 12nm Hanguang 800 chip has 17 billion transistors

AI + ML26 Sep 2019 | 8

China's cloud market jumps 58%: OK Alibaba, you've lost your Ma but you're still leading

Plus: Baidu's 92% growth closes gap on AWS

SaaS12 Sep 2019 | 4

Alright! Ma time to meet that shag quota! Alibaba chairman steps down at 55 with $38.6bn fortune

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

SaaS10 Sep 2019 | 20

Alibaba: There's a trade war going on? Could've fooled us – just check out these swollen digits

Cloud biz still dwarfed by retail but everything's up

SaaS16 Aug 2019 | 6

Alibaba sketches world's 'fastest' 'open-source' RISC-V processor yet: 16 cores, 64-bit, 2.5GHz, 12nm, out-of-order exec

Analysis Coming to an FPGA near you, soon, maybe, hopefully?

On-Prem27 Jul 2019 | 78

IPO sez me: Alibaba looking to raise a cool $20bn for second listing on Hong Kong exchange

Chinese giant wants insurance policy in Trumpulent times

SaaS28 May 2019 | 1

Alibaba pulls dust covers off its new London cloud presence

Can Chinese cloudy crowd check rise of AWS?

SaaS22 Oct 2018 | 17

Alibaba wants to ship its own neural network silicon by H2 2019

Middle Kingdom calls for international AI arm linkage

AI + ML20 Sep 2018 | 1