Alibaba

Alibaba, Tencent shed $84 billion after AI vision falls flat

The market punished Alibaba and Tencent for failing to lay out clear visions for how to profit off AI.

Branded Content

From the slopes to your screen: How cloud technology is transforming the Olympic Games

A skier performs during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, where Alibaba Cloud technologies allowed broadcasters to recreate performances from multiple angles in near real time.

Where artificial intelligence lives: South-east Asia’s data centre boom

Racks of servers are seen inside an operational Microsoft data centre in Karawang, West Java.

China targets e-commerce battles in latest price war salvo

China unveiled broad regulations that ban major platforms such as Alibaba from coercing online merchants into promotions.

Pentagon suggests adding Alibaba, Baidu, BYD to list for aiding China military: Bloomberg News

The annually updated US list of Chinese military companies - formally mandated under US law as the "Section 1260H list" - designated 134 companies in its last update in January 2025.

AliExpress bans Chinese sex doll seller after Reuters investigation

The products were offered by Guava Dolls, whose seller page on the AliExpress marketplace showed it as being based in China’s Shandong province.

White House says Alibaba helping Chinese military to target US: FT

Alibaba said the "assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false."

Labubu craze hits London on Singles’ Day with AliExpress live shopping show

Influencer Anna Williams and Chinese actress Mary He during an AliExpress and Pop Mart livestream shopping show on Singles' Day at a pop-up store in London, Britain, on Nov 11.

CEO Insights

AI isn’t the rival, the person who masters it is: Ant Group CTO

Ant Group's chief technology officer He Zhengyu spoke to The Straits Times after delivering a keynote address at the Singapore National Employers Federation Employers’ Summit on Nov 4, 2025.

Employers’ role in uplifting talent heightened amid uncertainty: Gan Kim Yong

Singapore’s employers union will move more decisively in the ongoing effort to help employers manage disruption and foster workforce agility in four ways.

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