Trump administration bans eight Chinese apps
Alipay, WeChat and friends ‘threaten national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States’
6 Jan 2021 | 17
New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos
As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle
4 Jan 2021 | 13
Alibaba Cloud sets its VMware partnership snowballing with hybrid storage appliances
Reveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em
17 Dec 2020 |
Top Chinese policy think tank’s new 15-year ‘smart economy’ plan admits US sanctions have hurt Huawei
Predicts massive data centre builds to add 50 million petabytes of capacity by 2025 as 60 percent of workloads run in clouds
16 Dec 2020 | 6
China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone
Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier
27 Nov 2020 | 8
Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions
Which rather kicks a hole in the planned debut of Slack-like Salesforce Anywhere
26 Nov 2020 | 18
China offers world its COVID QR Code movement passport at G20 Leaders' Meeting
Declaration puts a handbrake on global digital currencies, includes usual 'let's use the internet and AI to make the world a better place' stuff
23 Nov 2020 | 21
Tencent admits to ‘soft’ cloud growth compared to hyperscale peers
Says Beijing’s internet monopoly and lending laws are nothing to worry about, pledges IaaS bounce-back
13 Nov 2020 |
PUBG frags Tencent, adopts Azure and makes digital clothes the default in bid to get back into India
Wipes away gore, dials up data protection and finds $100m to boost local gaming industry
13 Nov 2020 | 4
China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade
Share prices of China’s internet giants slump in wake of call for comment
11 Nov 2020 | 5
Cloud revenue equation: One AWS equals Azure + Google + Alibaba
Pandemic makes for huge growth, but one customer remains elusive: Facebook plans $23bn new infrastructure spend
30 Oct 2020 | 3
Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other
Open Source Summit Europe Combined org hoping to attract more industry support
26 Oct 2020 | 1
OIF! Forget OpenStack Foundation, it's becoming Open Infrastructure Foundation - with new members, an expanded role
After 10 years of OpenStack, 'a lot has changed and we are changing with it'
19 Oct 2020 | 1
OpenStack's 10th birthday is next week, but you get the present of a new release today
Meet Victoria, who’s fond of K8s, security and complex networking
16 Oct 2020 | 2
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
16 Oct 2020 | 1
China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day
Which goes a long way towards explaining why Tencent just engineered a mega-merger of streaming services
15 Oct 2020 | 9
As China trials its Digital Yuan with a giveaway, seven big central banks outline response
Bank of England and US Reserve among those pondering own digital dollars
12 Oct 2020 | 17
TikTok wins reprieve as judge rules it can stay in American iOS, Android app stores for now
Justice won't say why he granted injunction, orders Uncle Sam and vid app maker to keep talking
28 Sep 2020 | 8
Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive
Ban on app ruled a restriction on free speech
20 Sep 2020 | 11
USA still hasn’t figured out details of WeChat ban but promises users won't be punished
Three days remain before definition of prohibited transactions drops
18 Sep 2020 | 14
