Employer forced engineer to attend off-shift online training sessions; he sued for overtime pay and wonA Beijing engineer, Wang, won a case against his former employer. He was forced to attend online training after work hours. The court order...
26 Jul, 2025, 06.46 PM IST
Alibaba Cloud suffers second service outage in a monthThe impact was mainly felt by several of Alibaba Cloud's database management products, including PostgreSQL, Redis and MySQL editions. Beij...
28 Nov, 2023, 05.54 PM IST
Alibaba opens AI model Tongyi Qianwen to the publicThe Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Division said organisations including OPPO, Taobao, DingTalk and Zhejiang University have reached cooperatio...
13 Sep, 2023, 07.03 AM IST
How Alibaba's six main new business units stack upAlibaba Group Holding's former CEO, Daniel Zhang, has unexpectedly left the company's cloud computing unit, raising concerns about its spin...
11 Sep, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
Alibaba stock slides after ex-CEO abruptly quits cloud unit ahead of IPOAlibaba's stock fell over 4% in Hong Kong after ex-CEO Daniel Zhang resigned from the company's cloud computing unit. Concerns have arisen ...
11 Sep, 2023, 02.27 PM IST
Alibaba's DingTalk will split from Cloud business groupThe sources could not confirm the exact timing of the split and also did not confirm news reported by Chinese media outlet Caixin on Wednes...
16 Aug, 2023, 02.23 PM IST
China proposes measures to manage generative AI servicesThe rules drafted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) come as several governments are considering how to mitigate the dangers o...
11 Apr, 2023, 12.43 PM IST
Alibaba shows off its generative AI tech, to roll out Tongyi Qianwen in all appsCalled Tongyi Qianwen, the AI large language model drafted invitation letters, planned trip itineraries and advised shoppers on types of ma...
11 Apr, 2023, 10.19 AM IST
Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen, an AI model similar to GPTIt will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and d...
11 Apr, 2023, 08.43 AM IST
Alibaba says testing ChatGPT-style tool as AI buzz gathers paceMicrosoft-backed chatbot sensation ChatGPT - which can generate articles, essays, jokes and even poetry in response to prompts - has been r...
08 Feb, 2023, 06.42 PM IST
Indian students being ‘forced’ to download banned Chinese appsOnline studies of 23,000-odd students, at least 20,000 of whom are medical students, studying in various Chinese universities have been bad...
21 Jul, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
Teaching to get more creative & customised with technological advancementArtificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Machine Learning (ML) and other technologies will be in use to ...
28 Feb, 2021, 09.13 PM IST
Government bans 43 more Chinese apps, SnackVideo and AliExpress on the listThe government had earlier banned apps such as ByteDance-owned TikTok, Helo along with WeChat, CamScanner and PUBG.
25 Nov, 2020, 08.55 AM IST
Alibaba to invest $28 bln in cloud services after coronavirus boosted demandThe company said in a statement it will spend the funds on semiconductor and operating system development as well as building out its data ...
20 Apr, 2020, 10.19 AM IST
Coronavirus outbreak: Companies bank on virtual meetings to dodge disruptionsRajiv Bhalla, managing director, Barco India said, “With the recent health scare, we are seeing a strong uptake in video conferencing. Seve...
03 Mar, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
Tencent, Alibaba office apps find fans in virus-affected schoolsTencent and Alibaba have in past years steadily built out their office apps as part of an overall effort to keep users locked into their re...
12 Feb, 2020, 10.15 AM IST
Paytm launches its own AI cloud for IndiaThe company has partnered with Alibaba for Cloud Computing Infrastructure. It will soon offer enterprise-messaging solution in partnership ...
21 Aug, 2018, 08.29 AM IST