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
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Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager
Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report
08 Sep 2021
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
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
Naughty karaoke is China's next tech crackdown target
Work drinking culture also criticised in wake of Alibaba sex assault scandal
12 Aug 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
14 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
03 May 2021
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
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
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
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