FreshHema: Future of Alibaba?

Other than Taobao/Tmall, the more established business line, Alibaba has another three main business focuses which are Fresh Hema, Ant Financial, and Alibaba Cloud. This report will focus on Fresh Hema.  Fresh Hema (Hema, 盒马鲜生) will help to bring Alibaba's new retail ambition into ...

Winners in China's Cloud Industry: A Glimpse of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud's Strategy

Two Chinese giants, Alibaba and Tencent, concurrently developed their own cloud service businesses: Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud.A brief review of Alibaba and Tencent's businesses-        AlibabaNot restricted to delving into the e-commerce marketplace, ...

AWS Faces Threats from Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is a critical backbone to support its (Alibaba Group's) business strategy, and Alibaba Cloud itself is becoming an increasingly important business for Alibaba, as what AWS is for Amazon," said Charlie Dai, principal analyst at Forrester Research, reported by China Daily. ...

Alibaba Partner Hu Xi Resigns

The management of Ant Group had undergone a new round of ...In addition, compared with the prospectus submitted by Alibaba to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 13, 2019, Alibaba's chief legal officer and company secretary Timothy A.Steinert is also no longer on the list of partners.

China’s Tech Giants Tencent and Alibaba: Survival of the Most Connected

Notwithstanding, it is impossible to talk about digital business in China without focusing on either Alibaba, Tencent, or both. The business ecosystems built by the two Mr. Mas cannot easily be avoided, either by consumers, businesses, investors, or competitors. These two Chinese tech giants are ...

Alibaba Cloud Opens Second Data Center in Indonesia

Jan 23, Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Indonesia, reported by Networks Asia. Launched in 2009, Alibaba Cloud has been marching into overseas market aggressively since 2016 after it has been practicing in local market. Its first data center ...

Alibaba Cloud Launches Second Data Center In Japan

Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) is a Chinese cloud computing company and subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Recently it launches another data center in Japan, which it claims will double its current capacity in Japan in order to fulfill the increasing demand for cloud computing and AI. Now, Alibaba's global ...

DingTalk Becomes Separate Business Unit of Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud has re-structured DingTalk team and upgraded it to ‘Big DingTalk’ business unit, with a bold business unit convergence plan and new senior manager assignments. Meanwhile, DingTalk’s founder and CEO Chen Hang has left the position. Rumor has it that Alibaba Group (BABA...

Alibaba Cloud Helped Predict The Flu Epidemic In Macao

with AI Technology, and Alibaba Cloud helps to upgrade Macao as a smart city with its technology.  As one of the programs in intelligent healthcare system of Alibaba, by analyzing the history and the trend of epidemic desease through AI technology, the flu epidemic predition&...

Would Alibaba Cloud Follow AWS' Growth Trajectory

Three years after AWS was launched, Alibaba made its cloud computing technologies available to external clients in 2009. Alibaba Cloud offers comprehensive cloud products comprised of elastic computing, database, storage, security, web hosting, AI, IoT and so on. Its pricing model is the simple pay-...

Goldman Sachs Values Alibaba Cloud at USD 93 Billion

Goldman Sachs has given a USD 93 billion valuation to Alibaba Cloud, cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA:NYSE). According to the bank, Alibaba Cloud's revenue may exceed USD 8.30 billion in the fiscal year 2022, with the latest valuation more than eight times ...

Alibaba Launches Business Data Services Subsidiary Lingyang

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced the establishment of a new subsidiary on June 29 named Lingyang (Chinese: 瓴羊).“The establishment is an important step for us,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba, adding that the digital construction is the consensus for all walks of life.At...

Alibaba Marches into Online Education

s (Tech星球), media platform, focusing on cutting-edge Internet technology, official WeChat account, Alibaba (BABA: NYSE) recently launched a product called 帮帮答, directly translated to ‘help me answer.’ It is a paid question and answer platform for primary and secondary school ...

Jack Ma and Jonathan Tsai Significantly Increase Alibaba Stake

Recent market news suggests that Alibaba Group founders Jack Ma and Jonathan Tsai have recently increased their holdings in Alibaba stock significantly. Tsai's family fund, Blue Pool, reportedly added $150 million worth of Alibaba shares. Meanwhile, Jack Ma also made a large increase in his ...

Alibaba Cloud Opens Its Real-Time Computing Platform Blink

Alibaba cloud (阿里云) announced today that it makes the real-time computing platform Blink (Flink) open source. Blink is a forked version of Apache Flink and has been tailored to meet some of the unique requirements that Alibaba has. Stephan Ewen, CTO at Data Artisans, says “Alibaba is the...