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Ambitious Alibaba takes aim at the kings of cloud computing
When you think of the biggest cloud players in the world, one company you might not consider is Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant that held a record $25 billion U.S. IPO in 2014. Alibaba entered the cloud computing business in 2009, just three years after Amazon launched its cloud division, AWS — and Alibaba’s cloud computing efforts are among the ambitious projects that… Read More
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Alibaba gives its fast-growing cloud computing business another global push
Alibaba continues to put its chips into the cloud after it announced the opening of four new data centers across the world. A new facility in the Middle East (Dubai) went online today, while further locations in Australia, Japan and Germany are scheduled to open soon. Read More
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Jack Ma says Alibaba wants to more than double its GMV to one trillion dollars by 2020
Alibaba Group’s goal is to become the equivalent of the world’s fifth richest country in four years. Founder and chairman Jack Ma laid out the company’s ambitions during its first Investor Day, which took place this morning at its headquarters in Hangzhou, China. Read More
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Alibaba’s Cloud Computing Group Says Its New Artificial Intelligence Platform Is China’s First
Aliyun, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group, is launching an artificial intelligence service that it claims is the first in China. Called DT PAI, the platform combines algorithms used by Alibaba with machine and deep learning techniques and presents them in a simple drag-and-drop interface. Aliyun says developers can use DT PAI to predict user behavior without having to write new code. Read More
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Alibaba’s Cloud Computing Business Will Open Its International Headquarters In Singapore
Aliyun, the cloud computing unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is taking another major step toward international expansion with the opening of a data center in Singapore. Aliyun received a $1 billion investment earmarked for global expansion from its parent company last month. Read More
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Alibaba Plows $1B Into Aliyun, Its Cloud Computing Unit
Alibaba Group announced today that it will invest a further $1 billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun, which currently has data centers in China, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, into other international markets. The company plans to target the Middle East, where it recently formed a joint venture with Dubai-based holding company Meraas… Read More
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Aliyun, Alibaba’s Cloud Computing Unit, Takes Its First Steps Into The Middle East
Aliyun, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba, announced today that it has signed a joint-venture agreement with Dubai-based holding company Meraas to bring it services to companies and government organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. Read More
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Aliyun, An Alibaba Unit, Is Building China’s First “Cloud Hospital”
Alibaba’s power doesn’t just stem from being the largest player in the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market. The company also sits on hoards of data, gathered from its shopping sites, as well as its financial and cloud computing businesses. Now Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing subsidiary, has entered a deal to build what it calls the first “cloud… Read More
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Alibaba Is Expanding Its Cloud Services To The U.S. To Give Amazon New Competition
Alibaba, the Chinese commerce firm which held the largest IPO in history last year, is bringing its cloud computing services to the U.S. after announcing a data center in Silicon Valley. Read More
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Amazon Raises Its Game Against Alibaba, Will Expand AWS Cloud Services To China In 2014
Another step ahead for Amazon in its bid to become the world’s biggest cloud computing platform for businesses, and to specifically take aim at a big regional competitor in Asia, Alibaba. Today it announced that it would extend its Amazon Web Services suite of products to China beginning with a limited preview in early 2014. You can apply for early access on the AWS China homepage here. Read More
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Chinese Ministry Critical Of Android’s Dominance — But How Much Power Does Google Really Have In China?
China’s technology Ministry has criticised the dominance of Google’s Android platform, according to Reuters. “Our country’s mobile operating system research and development is too dependent on Android. While the Android system is open source, the core technology and technology roadmap is strictly controlled by Google,” a Ministry whitepaper states. Read More
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Chinese Ecommerce Giant Alibaba Spins Off Aliyun Mobile OS Team, Puts $200M In Their Pockets
Chinese web and eCommerce giant Alibaba plans to spin off the team developing its first mobile OS — Aliyun — Reuters is reporting, you know, the OS Google claims is an inappropriate fork of Android. Let’s call it a fork too far. Read More
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Alibaba VP In Response To Google Smackdown: ‘Will Someone Please Ask Google To Define Android?’
While Marissa Mayer is busy trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo’s new $4.5 billion in cash — recently gained from selling 20 percent of its holdings in Alibaba back to, well, Alibaba — the Chinese web and eCommerce giant has recently been in a heated exchange with Yahoo’s old pal, Google. The fun apparently began after Taiwanese PC maker Acer cancelled the launch… Read More
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