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
13 Apr 2021
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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)
12 Apr 2021
Alibaba Cloud quietly tests desktops-as-a-service
In seven flavours, accessible from Windows or macOS, with Active Directory support and USB passthrough
11 Mar 2021
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
22 Feb 2021
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
03 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?
05 Jan 2021
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
04 Jan 2021
Alibaba Cloud sets its VMware partnership snowballing with hybrid storage appliances
Reveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em
17 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
27 Nov 2020
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
26 Nov 2020
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
25 Nov 2020
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
24 Nov 2020
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
12 Nov 2020
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
11 Nov 2020
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
03 Nov 2020
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
30 Oct 2020
Alibaba’s Ant Group aims to carry away $34 billion with imminent listing
Alipay operator prices itself as most expensive IPO of all time
27 Oct 2020
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
16 Oct 2020
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