Alibaba has a management reshuffle
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Tuesday, 20 June 2023 11:35

Alibaba has a management reshuffle


You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em

Alibaba Group has announced a major management reshuffle as the e-commerce giant restructures into six different business divisions.

Alibaba prepares to spin off its intelligence group
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Unlocking value

Seven weeks after Alibaba announced its historic restructuring plan to split itself into six independent companies, the outfit is gearing up to spin off its intelligence group.

Jack Ma unplugs his career juke box with Ant Group
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That music's lost its flavour, provide another flavour

Jack Ma will cede control of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group following a Communist Party crackdown on the nation's tech sector that targeted the charismatic billionaire.

ARM not sending new chips to Alibaba
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 14 December 2022 12:08

ARM not sending new chips to Alibaba


Neoverse V will not get a licence behind the bamboo curtain

ARM won't sell its latest Neoverse V series chips to Chinese tech giant Alibaba after concluding that the US and UK would not approve licenses to export them.

Chinese designers throttle chips to escape US controls
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Chips do not have to be that advanced

Chinese chip makers have worked out that while chip specs have improved over the last ten years, they have not changed that much to make a difference to products.

Alibaba releases RISC-V development platform
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Edge SoCs coming

Alibaba Cloud has released a development platform to help engineers building high-performance Systems-on-Chip (SoC) silicon based on the RISC-V open architecture.

Jack Ma gives up on Ant group
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Friday, 29 July 2022 11:46

Jack Ma gives up on Ant group


Time to unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

Billionaire Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Ant Group as part of the fintech giant's effort to move away from affiliate Alibaba Group after more than a year of pressure from Chinese regulators.

US government now targeting Alibaba
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:00

US government now targeting Alibaba


Worked so well for Huawei

Having damaged Huawei, the US government is now setting its sights on destroying Alibaba’s cloud business to protect its own cloud businesses.

Jack Ma appears to be alive
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Thursday, 21 January 2021 12:03

Jack Ma appears to be alive


At least for 50 seconds

Billionaire Jack Ma’s 50-second video reappearance has done little to resolve Alibaba’s troubled relationship with regulators that is making some investors hesitate about owning the Chinese e-commerce giant’s shares.

Alibaba and Tencent’s plans to buy iQIYI stall
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Baidu wants too much money

Talks between Alibaba and Tencent to buy Baidu’s video streaming service have stalled over the price tag.