‘China data theft’: 500,000 Britons’ details put for sale online Tech The government has revealed that confidential medical data belonging to half a million Brits was put up for a sale on a website in China. Data stored in UK Biobank, the world’s most comprehensive set of information on health that is used by scientists for research, was put on Alibaba. The data did not contain [...]
Cocreate Europe: Join Alibaba.com’s flagship B2B event to supercharge your business in 2026! Partner SMEs from across Europe are expected to convene in London later this Autumn for CoCreate Europe, the flagship SME-focused trade event by Alibaba.com. Bringing together millions of buyers with millions of global sellers, Alibaba.com is a leading platform for global business-to-business e-commerce. Alibaba.com is revolutionising how SMEs are accessing global supply chains, enabling British buyers [...]
Alibaba unveils new AI chip as Nvidia’s China headache deepens Tech China’s tech giants are racing to plug the gap left by Washington’s export bans, with Alibaba rolling out a new AI processor designed to replace Nvidia’s restricted H20 chip. The e-commerce titan, now also the country’s largest cloud-computing group, said the chip is more versatile than its predecessors and is aimed squarely at domestic AI [...]
Alibaba.com brings CoCreate Pitch to Europe: July 8, 2025 UK SMEs invited to compete for share of £750,000 in global pitch challenge Alibaba.com, a leading platform for global B2B e-commerce, is excited to launch CoCreate Pitch – a new competition for UK and European SMEs to take their product concepts and business dreams global and reach new levels of success. As the world’s largest [...]
Alibaba founder Jack Ma ditches tech for teaching May 2, 2023 Alibaba founder Jack Ma has taken up a university teaching position, in a shift away from his sprawling tech businesses and one of the first public roles he has assumed after almost three years of keeping a low profile. Ma joined Tokyo college, run by the University of Tokyo, as a visiting professor on Monday, [...]
UK export market is growing and is expected to grow further: Sponsored April 27, 2023 | Sponsored British businesses are ambitious for international growth and see exporting as key to their success. That’s according to recent research from Alibaba Group, in partnership with the Institute of Export and International Trade. The survey of more than 3,000 UK businesses revealed buoyant export activity, with those businesses that export generating nearly half of their [...]
UK government’s letter to Visa, Deloitte and Allianz prompts rebuke from Olympic chiefs March 14, 2023 Olympic chiefs have issued a rebuke to the UK government over its lobbying of sponsors including Visa, Deloitte and Allianz for Russia to remain banned from sport. The UK has been among the most vocal and active opponents of the International Olympic Committee’s plan to lift the suspension of Russia and its ally Belarus. Culture [...]
Fintech overhaul: Jack Ma to relinquish control of Chinese giant Ant January 7, 2023 Ant Group’s founder Jack Ma will give up control of the Chinese fintech giant in an overhaul that seeks to draw a line under a regulatory crackdown that was triggered soon after its mammoth stock market debut was scuppered two years ago. Ant’s $37bn IPO, which would have been the world’s largest, was cancelled at the last minute in November [...]
Retailers gear up to win battle for Christmas online shopping rush November 1, 2022 Retail giants are battling to entice cash-strapped consumers with a slew of online discounts and sales this year. Spending is expected to slip by up to half on Black Friday this year, against a backdrop of a cost of living crisis, Wunderman Thompson research has forecast. Online retailers are set to benefit from the crunch, [...]
Alibaba posts flat revenue growth after ‘relatively slow’ spring August 4, 2022 E-commerce group Alibaba has posted flat revenue growth for the first time. The Hong-Kong based firm said sales in Chinese commerce dropped one per cent compared to the past year while revenue from its cloud business saw revenue up 16 per cent. The group’s revenue hit 205.56bn yuan ($30bn) in the April to June period, [...]