China stories

Mainland China’s cloud market grew moderately in Q2 2023
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The main players in mainland China’s cloud infrastructure market remain unchanged in Q2 2023, with Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud and Tencent Cloud at the top.

ESET uncovers trojanized Signal and Telegram apps in Google Play
This month
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ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to GREF.

ESR completes its first E-Commerce Logistics Park in Guangxi
Mon, 17th Jul 2023
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ESR has completed the construction of ESR Nanning Wuxiang E-commerce Logistics Park in the capital of Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Alipay and Mastercard enable cashless payments for foreigners in China
Fri, 23rd Jun 2023
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Linking any Mastercard card to the Alipay digital wallet makes e-payments in China easier, linking merchants with international visitors seamlessly.

Case Study: Optical technologies light the way for agriculture
Mon, 15th May 2023
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Thanks to high bandwidth, low latency, and highly reliable connectivity, Jinfu Farm was able to transform its farming methods from labour-intensive to digitally-led.

Alibaba Cloud unveils AI-based language model Tongyi Qianwen
Tue, 11th Apr 2023
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Competitively-priced cloud products with free trial and training will make computing more inclusive for enterprises and developers to thrive in the new AI era.

China’s smartphone market fell to a decade low in 2022
Fri, 3rd Feb 2023
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IDC says that the full-year market size neared the level ten years ago when two out of five mobile phone shipments were still feature phones.

China and Taiwan: Overcoming Supply Chain Disruption through Diversification, AI and ERP
Wed, 30th Nov 2022
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With the growing tension and increasing potential of conflict between global supply chain capitals, China and Taiwan, it’s now evident businesses, and indeed economies, must safeguard their logistics against disruption to ensure stability and growth.

Chayora celebrates growth wins and latest campus project
Wed, 16th Nov 2022
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data centre managers
"The second campus project marks yet another milestone in Chayora’s journey of green data centre development."

Automation to take over 63 million jobs in APAC by 2040 - report
Tue, 9th Aug 2022
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Forrester forecasts that working populations in the five largest economies in APAC are more at risk of physical robot automation than in Europe and North America.

Three out of four APAC youth want to work in green economy
Tue, 26th Apr 2022
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Accenture's latest research report finds 77% of APAC youth want a job in the green economy over the next decade.

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

WeChat Pay sizes up Oceania merchants to boost growth opportunities
Mon, 21st Jun 2021
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commerce systems
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payment gateways
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The company says it will commit more resources to help business in Australia and New Zealand transform their businesses.

Equinix expands connectivity options to Greater China
Fri, 7th May 2021
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data centre operators
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Equinix offers metro-to-metro connectivity between Asia Pacific hubs through Hong Kong and on to Greater China.

China to hit US$63.7bn in cloud computing revenue by 2024, dominating APAC market
Tue, 22nd Sep 2020
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China is set to dominate Asia Pacific (APAC) cloud computing market revenue in the lead up to 2024, with one-third revenue market share, according to GlobalData’s Market Opportunity Forecasts Model.

SolarWinds extends M.Tech relationship with sights set on China
Tue, 19th May 2020
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SolarWinds has officially extended its relationship with M.Tech as a value-added distributor for China. The pair share the overarching aim to extend operations in this market.

U.S. face meets egg – used telecom tech to spy on own allies
Tue, 18th Feb 2020
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Huawei revels in a ‘gotcha’ moment in the wake of The Washington Post’s revelation that the US Govt used backdoors in CIA-owned tech company to spy on allies.

IT spending impacted by Coronavirus and declining PC sales, IDC finds
Thu, 13th Feb 2020
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“Much of this year's growth is dependent on a positive smartphone cycle as the year progresses, but this is under threat from disruption caused by the Coronavirus crisis."

Computer vision tech market unchallenged by controversy
Wed, 12th Feb 2020
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GlobalData reports that the global computer vision market will continue to head upwards, even in the face of fears around facial recognition.

Coronavirus scare is already hitting tech market
Mon, 3rd Feb 2020
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technology gifts
GlobalData outlines the ways that China’s corporate shutdowns may have far-reaching effects for the global technology economy.

Telstra and Chayora announce strategic partnership, with target market of China
Fri, 24th Jan 2020
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colocation
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telecommunications
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telstra
Telstra International and Chayora have entered into a strategic partnership with the shared focus of delivering colocation and network connectivity services to China.

China's 111 named National High-Tec Enterprise
Wed, 1st Jan 2020
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government
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smart technology
"The national high-tech enterprise designation reflects national recognition of our technology and innovations."

Genomics company opens new data centre in mainland China
Fri, 11th Oct 2019
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
This strategic move will serve existing and new BlueBee customers who integrate bioinformatic data solutions with their analytical instruments, omics assay technology, or high-throughput laboratory services, according to a statement.

Alibaba Cloud brings on nine new partners
Mon, 5th Aug 2019
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“The partnership covering all sectors spanning from public to private organisations reflects Alibaba's mission to make it easy to do business anywhere.”