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
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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
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
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