Alibaba stories

FMI finds earphone and headphone market to expand by billions
Thu, 27th Oct 2022
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The earphones and headphones market is estimated to be worth USD$ 22.3 billion in 2022 and is projected to close in on a valuation of $35.2 billion by 2028.

Alibaba unveils latest chip development platform, Wujian 600
Fri, 26th Aug 2022
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The platform has been created to help global developers in the design of high-performance Systems-on-Chip for edge-AI computing.

Alibaba named Major Player in commercial CDN by IDC
Thu, 21st Apr 2022
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Alibaba has been named a Major Player in global commercial content delivery network services in the latest IDC MarketScape report.

Alibaba’s Cainiao Network uses solar power for warehouses
Wed, 20th Apr 2022
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Alibaba Group's logistic arm Cainiao Network has installed 100,000m2 of solar panels on its warehouses so far in its push to build a global green supply chain

Responsible Technology, Sustainable Future: How technology will help companies become carbon neutral by 2030
Thu, 31st Mar 2022
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Climate change is becoming a high profile topic all around the world - it is a Pandora’s box that will continue to unleash complex consequences that are increasingly challenging for humanity to assess and cope with.

Alibaba announces December Quarter 2021 financial results
Fri, 25th Feb 2022
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Alibaba has announced its December Quarter 2021 financial results, highlighting a 19% increase in revenue compared to the same quarter the year before.

Alibaba cloud will help broadcast the Olympic Winter Games 2022
Fri, 18th Feb 2022
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In collaboration with the Olympic Broadcasting Services, Alibaba's cloud technologies will be utilised during the Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022.

Salesforce announces new innovations across the APAC market
Mon, 17th Jan 2022
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Salesforce has announced a string of new innovations and partnerships to help expand its reach across the APAC market.

Alibaba reveals its top 10 tech trends for the year ahead
Tue, 11th Jan 2022
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Alibaba DAMO Academy has released its forecast of the leading trends it believes will shape the tech industry in 2022.

The technology behind Alibaba's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival
Thu, 18th Nov 2021
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Alibaba’s recent 11.11 Global Shopping Festival was greener than usual this year, thanks to a boost in the cloud computing power behind the event.

Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce plan to launch new commerce product
Tue, 21st Sep 2021
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Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce are working toward an agreement to launch Salesforce Social Commerce, a headless commerce product designed and built in China.

Alibaba's AI model outperforms humans in global challenge
Fri, 20th Aug 2021
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Alibaba has secured first place in the latest global Visual Question Answering leaderboard, performing better than humans in the same context.

Global IaaS market hit $64.3 billion in 2020
Tue, 29th Jun 2021
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The 40.7% boost in the Infrastructure as a Service market was accompanied by another positive statistic: almost 90% of all IaaS providers exhibited growth.

Alibaba Cloud shopping festival harnesses power of renewable energy and smart logistics
Fri, 25th Jun 2021
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Alibaba’s annual Mid-Year Shopping Festival was not only a large-scale campaign across popular retail platforms, but it was also a feat for ‘green technology’.

Alibaba Cloud 2021: eCommerce live streaming solution unveiled, plus $1b investment in APAC SMBs
Wed, 9th Jun 2021
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commerce systems
The company announced $1b support for Asia Pacific SMBs, as well as a live streaming eCommerce service.

Alibaba Group ranks third in global IaaS market, first in APAC
Thu, 22nd Apr 2021
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"We believe the report is also a recognition of our increased efforts in the education sector to help schools continue their lessons during the coronavirus outbreak via leveraging our digital-learning solutions.”

Alibaba Cloud overhauls its hybrid cloud strategy
Thu, 3rd Dec 2020
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The company's Hybrid Cloud Partner Program, Hybrid Backup Recovery solution and Hybrid Cloud Storage Array have all seen significant enhancements.

IBM, Alphabet and well-funded startups in the race for quantum supremacy
Fri, 25th Sep 2020
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"It may not come as a surprise that quantum computing one day replaces artificial intelligence as the mainstream technology to help industries tackle problems they never would have attempted to solve before.”

Amazon surges ahead of eCommerce competitors in market capitalisation
Fri, 28th Aug 2020
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The retail giant has a 125% lead over its closest rival Alibaba, which saw 10.9% growth in Q2. Quarter-on-quarter market capitalisation growth was also seen across all top 25 publicly traded global retailers, according to new research from GlobalData.

Amazon continues to dominate global IaaS market - report
Tue, 11th Aug 2020
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google
The top 5 IaaS providers accounted for 80% of the total worldwide market in 2019, according to a new report from Gartner.

Forrester analyses the top SaaS marketplace players
Tue, 4th Aug 2020
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cloud services
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microsoft
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hyperscale
The ‘New Wave SaaS Marketplaces’ report analyses the top eight players and provides analyst insight on who is excelling, or trailing, in 10 criteria.

Alibaba Cloud to invest US$283 million to accelerate global partner innovation
Wed, 17th Jun 2020
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The investment aims to bring its partners up to speed with digitalisation capabilities and create joint products and solutions to benefit more customers across all sectors.

Alibaba records growth for 2020, but it's not all smooth sailing
Mon, 25th May 2020
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The company's Cloud business saw huge gains, but the declining business activity in the early months of 2020 was not kind to the retail giant.

Alibaba Cloud to invest US$28 billion in cloud infrastructure
Mon, 20th Apr 2020
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It will also focus on building ‘the next-generation data centers’, with the goal to bolster digital transformation both when the world eventually emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.