AI + ML
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
14 Jan 2022 23:15 | 6
Alibaba
Articles tagged with Alibaba
Off-Prem
Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com
Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing
23 Dec 2021 15:55 | 3
Security
Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j
Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong
23 Dec 2021 05:58 | 12
Legal
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
13 Dec 2021 06:00 | 21
PaaS + IaaS
Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon
Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand
09 Dec 2021 04:54 |
On-Prem
Alibaba teases a breakthrough chip, merging processor and memory
And open sources Yun on Chip IoT silicon and ecosystem
08 Dec 2021 01:56 | 7
Off-Prem
Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops
Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'
06 Dec 2021 06:01 | 6
Legal
Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise
Manager was fired, now wants his reputation restored with post on a prominent website
03 Dec 2021 03:32 | 13
Off-Prem
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
19 Nov 2021 06:57 | 5
Personal Tech
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
14 Sep 2021 01:45 | 10
SaaS
Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager
Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report
08 Sep 2021 03:45 | 6
AI + ML
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
24 Aug 2021 03:04 | 38
Legal
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
13 Aug 2021 03:15 | 10
Bootnotes
Naughty karaoke is China's next tech crackdown target
Work drinking culture also criticised in wake of Alibaba sex assault scandal
12 Aug 2021 01:27 | 33
Legal
Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague
Chinese netizens and State media unleash as it emerges web giant lacks formal sexual harassment policy
09 Aug 2021 08:11 | 31
Security
Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
16 Jun 2021 03:14 | 1
Personal Tech
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
08 Jun 2021 19:16 | 18
Off-Prem
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
08 Jun 2021 17:45 | 8
Legal
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
04 Jun 2021 04:58 |
Updated
Alibaba Cloud growth slows after mystery international customer - maybe ByteDance - quits over ‘non-product related’ factors
First loss as a listed company thanks to Beijing’s $2.8bn antitrust fine
14 May 2021 01:55 |
Legal
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
03 May 2021 01:15 | 20
Off-Prem
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
26 Apr 2021 04:28 | 3
Columnists
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 05:57 | 9
Legal
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 05:11 | 16
Off-Prem
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 06:06 | 5
Personal Tech
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 06:33 | 3
SaaS
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 01:01 |
SaaS
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 05:03 | 28
Legal
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 04:57 | 13
Storage
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 02:05 |
PaaS + IaaS
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 01:58 | 8
Software
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 00:12 | 11
Software
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 00:01 | 4
Legal
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 01:01 | 14
Video
FYI: Alibaba Cloud says it has robot sysadmins that swap faulty disks in four minutes
Plus liquid cooling to hit 580k orders/second on record $75bn 11.11 shopping bonanza day
12 Nov 2020 01:40 | 18
Legal
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 03:57 | 5
On-Prem
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 03:02 | 20
SaaS
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 07:39 | 3
On-Prem
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 03:58 | 1
Personal Tech
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
16 Oct 2020 02:30 | 1
Networks
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
09 Oct 2020 13:03 | 8
SaaS
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
18 Sep 2020 06:34 | 53
On-Prem
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
27 Aug 2020 04:56 | 2
SaaS
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
21 Aug 2020 01:56 | 3
SaaS
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
17 Aug 2020 05:15 | 41
SaaS
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
31 Jul 2020 16:12 |
On-Prem
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
21 Jul 2020 04:57 | 4
Databases
Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers
Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei
13 Jul 2020 04:58 | 1
On-Prem
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
25 Jun 2020 07:31 |
SaaS
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
26 May 2020 07:30 |
SaaS
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
25 May 2020 02:21 | 9
Personal Tech
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
21 May 2020 04:15 | 4
Science
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
18 May 2020 00:57 | 2
SaaS
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
30 Apr 2020 07:26 |
SaaS
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
20 Apr 2020 18:01 | 2
SaaS
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
04 Feb 2020 14:26 | 14
AI + ML
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
26 Sep 2019 06:03 | 8
SaaS
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
12 Sep 2019 06:58 | 4
SaaS
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
10 Sep 2019 10:30 | 20
SaaS
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
16 Aug 2019 17:00 | 6
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