China cloud services spend hits US$6bn in Q1 2021, Canalys research shows

Cloud infrastructure services spend in China jumped 55% in Q1 2021, reaching US$6.0 billion (€5.04 billion). Total expenditure increased $2.1 billion (€1.77 billion) compared with Q1 2020 and over $200 million

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Reap what we sow: Whale Cloud report maps journey to successful digital transformation

In the game of digitalisation, an increasing number of enterprises have jumped on the bandwagon of digital transformation with the rise of industrial internet.

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Addressable advertising boom across all regions and platforms forecast by Rethink TV

Addressable TV advertising will leap from US$15.6 billion (€13.9 billion) in total worldwide revenue in 2019 to almost six times that value at $85.5 billion (€76.3 billion) by 2025, according

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Secure-D exposes suspicious Android app with 500 million downloads

Upstream, a mobile technology company, has unveiled that the popular Android application VidMate triggers suspicious background activity. Hidden software within the app delivers invisible ads, generates fake clicks and purchases,

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5 keys to achieving a hyperscale data centre – Without a hyperscale budget

How to tame the tech titans asked a January 18th Economist headline in Competition in the digital age. A more recent article (American tech giants are making life tough for

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Vampire BAT FANGs set to dominate digital economy

Recent research from Virtusa has uncovered that businesses, including communications service providers (CSPs), are facing an existential risk from the enormous growth of technology giants such as Baidu, Alibaba and

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Hazelcast releases dedicated IMDG Go Client supporting multi-application distributed cloud computing deployments

Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 40 million server starts per month, today announced the availability of a new Hazelcast

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New tricks needed to stop the €45 billion counterfeit smartphone market

When billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma wrote in an open letter earlier this year, “We need to fight counterfeits the same way, we fight drunk driving,” his sentiments reflected how

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Chinese players pursue $3.4trn international digital payments opportunity

A new study from Juniper Research highlights the increasing dominance of Chinese companies in digital payments, with players such as Alibaba, Tencent and UnionPay seeking to bolster their revenues through

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AsiaInfo strengthens cloud computing portfolio

AsiaInfo has entered a strategic co-operation agreement with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group.  The two companies will work together on projects and jointly promote China as

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