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
Biz! Formerly! Known! As! Yahoo! Settles! Data! Breach! Cases! To! The! Tune! Of! $47m! Didja think we'd get rid of the exclaims just 'cos you're Altaba now? Security18 Sep 2018 | 21
Alibaba and Elastic slingshot searchable, analyticky cloud ... outside China That noise was AWS rolling over in its sleep SaaS15 Aug 2018 | 6
FBI for the Apple guy: Bloke accused of stealing robo-car tech Engineer facing trade secrets theft rap for allegedly trying to defect with self-driving designs Security12 Jul 2018 | 28
Alibaba and pals: We all SQream for GPU-powered databases – here, take $26.4m Startup has powerful backer to help it crack China HPC30 May 2018 |
Cloud is a six-horse race, and three of those have been lapped New Gartner Supernatural Square has AWS and Azure on top, IBM and Alibaba lagging and Oracle on an offensive SaaS29 May 2018 | 31
Alibaba fires up a cloudy quantum computer Five-qubit creation is behind the great firewall and outside it at the same time! HPC05 Mar 2018 | 19
OnePlus Android mobes' clipboard app caught phoning home to China Update Sorry! that was a test feature for Chinese users, company claims Personal Tech12 Jan 2018 | 28
Honda pores over in-car navigation software with Alibaba – report Japan's third-biggest carmaker inks deal with tat bazaar's mapping arm Science03 Jan 2018 | 22
Open source, says me: Alibaba chucks MariaDB a $27m funding round Chinese biz links up database tech with cloud platform Databases01 Nov 2017 | 9
Alibaba's Jack Ma says: Relax, we're too wise for robots to take our jobs We just have a little self-confidence problem is all AI + ML12 Oct 2017 | 18
Alibaba beats Google for IaaS market share, with IBM out of sight AWS is way in front, Azure a solid second, server-makers in trouble SaaS27 Sep 2017 | 11
Alibaba: We're no haven for pirates – we'll yank fake goods from our web bazaars within 24 hours China's Amazon steps up efforts after stinging criticism Personal Tech11 Aug 2017 | 10
Yahoo!'s Marissa! will! eject! with! $186m!.. $185m!.. $184m!.. Burning down the Purple Palace has its rewards On-Prem25 Apr 2017 | 20
IBM, Microsoft, US Govt all to blame for globalisation backlash: Jack Ma It's your own fault, Trump-friendly tycoon tells Davos Legal19 Jan 2017 | 13
We've been Trumped! China's Alibaba is a 'notorious' knock-offs souk, says US watchdog Auction site slapped on list as haven for counterfeit goods Legal22 Dec 2016 | 51
Alibaba's lights are on in Australia, but hardly anyone is home Cloud launched, but support, services, channel etc coming real soon, promise SaaS27 Nov 2016 | 8
Open sesame: Alibaba to open its first data centre in Europe Picks Germany over Blighty in deal with Vodafone On-Prem21 Nov 2016 | 9
Alibaba misses Java seat as MicroProfile champ lands a first Tomitribe secures JCP EC presence amid familiar blend Software17 Nov 2016 | 1
Open-source Sesame! Alibaba promises super-size magic for Java Commerce giant joins JCP steering group candidates lineup Software08 Nov 2016 | 4
Alibaba says its AWS-a-like division embiggened by 138% Biz has 2.3 million customers. Half a million of them actually pay, too SaaS05 May 2016 | 1
Alibaba security fail: Brute-force bonanza yields 21m logins 'Crack security team' didn't notice attempt to log in 99 million times Security08 Feb 2016 | 17
Layoffs! Lawsuits! Losses! ... Yahoo! is! in! an! L! of! a! mess! 15 per cent of staff axed, bits likely to be sold off, $4bn loss for the year On-Prem02 Feb 2016 | 51
Alibaba says 'open sesame' to AI, 1,000 new jobs in $1bn cash splash Nvidia silicon recruited by Chinese web bazaar On-Prem20 Jan 2016 | 1
In-a-spin! Yahoo! clutches! Alibaba! baby! to! breast! Purple Palace plans to chuck other assets out the door instead Legal09 Dec 2015 | 10
Alibaba presses 'play' on multi-billion video host buy Youku Tudou borged into Chinese 'net giant On-Prem09 Nov 2015 | 1
Alibaba’s bet on the fluffy white stuff paying off, revenue up 138% Company ‘positive about the cloud computing business’ SaaS27 Oct 2015 | 1
AliCloud and Foxconn join forces to train Chinese startup army Middle Kingdom players want to breed next gen companies On-Prem15 Oct 2015 |
Chinese dragon Alibaba ramps up cloud war with second US data center China cloud unit pushes deeper into Silicon Valley SaaS09 Oct 2015 | 3
Yahoo!: Who! cares! what! US! taxman! thinks!, we'll! spinoff! Alibaba! anyway! Risky maneuver could see it served a hefty tax bill someday On-Prem29 Sep 2015 | 11
Alibaba experiences ‘I love China’ company rep breakdown … 22 times With slow quarterly revenue growth, take any support you can get On-Prem21 Sep 2015 | 6
Tencent targets Alibaba, seeds data cloud with £1bn investment Chinese tech giants strap on the boxing gloves SaaS16 Sep 2015 |
Yahoo's! tax-free! Alibaba! switcheroo! gets! a! rough! ride! from! US! taxmen! Not going to make this easy On-Prem09 Sep 2015 | 1
Billionaire Soros 'likes' Facebook to the tune of $212m; Alibaba out of favour Investor's company throws millions at ad-flinging platform On-Prem17 Aug 2015 | 5
Alibaba shares down as growth slows to a continental creep Chinese tat bazaar suffers domestic economic woes following record IPO On-Prem13 Aug 2015 | 2
Cloud busting: Alibaba pumps $1bn into Aliyun, hopes it will rain cash Chinese tat bazaar ramps up anti-Amazon efforts in global cloud domination fight Channel29 Jul 2015 |
Aliyun enlists partners to take over the world's white fluffy stuff Intel and Equinix first of many to jump into bed with Alibaba SaaS08 Jun 2015 |
ALIBABA Vs AMAZON: Let the Global Tat Bazaar war begin Yep Napoleon, we should’ve let China sleep On-Prem18 May 2015 | 20
Europe targeted as Alibaba's cloudy world domination plans take shape Chinese giant tools up to take on AWS SaaS18 May 2015 | 5
Alibaba: Soon the (e-commerce) world will be ours. And the cloud Modest aims include trillion dollars in transactions, living to be 100 SaaS14 May 2015 | 3
Roar of the Dragon: Revenue up by nearly half at Alibaba as it expands into Silicon Valley Firm names new chief SaaS08 May 2015 |
Alibaba hopes to roll net-connected car out of the cave SAIC Motor j/v to smarten China's cars Networks13 Mar 2015 | 6
Alibaba splurges $590m on mobile-maker Meizu. Xiaomi the money? Megacorp moves towards making own Android mobes Personal Tech09 Feb 2015 | 1
Alibaba's magic cave empties as it misses revenue target Denies claims its stock comes from 40 thieves On-Prem30 Jan 2015 | 16
AliExpress patches account mass harvesting flaw Names, addresses and phone numbers make ripe phish food Security09 Dec 2014 | 9
Alibaba reports China's Singles Day is the world's biggest orgy of shopping More than $9bn spent in a single('s) day splurge On-Prem12 Nov 2014 | 3
Yahoo!... Our Alibaba stake's worth BILLIONS. Oh – our shares are in the toilet Worstall on Wednesday Santa Clara? Wall St? WTH? Channel24 Sep 2014 | 25
Yahoo! Made! $8bn! In! One! Day! And! You'll! Easily! Guess! How! Plenty o' grog to drink from all thar Alibaba booty On-Prem19 Sep 2014 | 9
Gigantic bazaar Alibaba WILL turn share price up to 11, er, $68 for biggest IPO ever in US Hopeful cap'ns seek PILES O'DOUBLOONS in NYSE debut On-Prem19 Sep 2014 | 7
Alibaba: Just kidding about that $21bn IPO ... we actually want $25bn Chinese gumble flogger ups goal for market debut On-Prem16 Sep 2014 | 5
Alibaba swings a large one with STONKING IPO legal bills Chinese e-commerce beast searches for $21bn from investors On-Prem06 Sep 2014 | 13
What! is! the! point! of! Yahoo?! To! sell! more! and! more! ads! says! CEO! Mayer! 2014 not as bad as 2012, says Marissa as sales slide further On-Prem16 Jul 2014 | 6
Investors eye Yahoo!'s future as China's Alibaba files for US IPO Is there value in the Purple Palace beyond its overseas holdings? On-Prem07 May 2014 | 1