News tagged: Tencent

21 June, 2021

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 (€168.13 million) on the previous quarter.

05 June, 2019

Delivery of digital infrastructure is the differentiator, says HGC chief digital officer

Jacqueline Teo is the chief digital officer of HGC Global Communications, the fixed line and ICT service provider that is extending from its roots serving the Hong Kong market to address international markets via its pan-Asian network capacity, including cable into China. Speaking at the TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event in Nice, France, last month she tells George Malim how the company is innovating on all fronts to compete in the mature Hong Kong market, to develop further its newly acquired operations in Myanmar and to harness software defined network (SDN) technology to enable a more agile mode of operation.

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13 August, 2018

Intel eyes $200bn market opportunity, announces $1bn in AI revenue, and shows new product roadmap

At Intel’s recent Data-Centric Innovation Summit, the company shared its strategy for the future of data-centric computing, as well as a view of Intel’s total addressable market (TAM), and new details about our product roadmap. (more…)

13 June, 2018

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

How to tame the tech titans asked a January 18^th Economist headline in Competition in the digital age. A more recent article (American tech giants are making life tough for startups) outlines the problems of startups in the tech giants’ “kill-zone” – where investors will shy away from any company that might appear to be entering the big boys’ territory. (more…)

27 April, 2018

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 Tencent – the BATs – and others such as Amazon, writes George Malim

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28 June, 2017

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 international expansion. (more…)

18 March, 2016

IMS Networks choose Huawei WAN SDN solution for challenge of digital transformation

France’s IMS Networks publicly announced at CeBIT 2016 that it would use Huawei NE40E high-end routers and WAN SDN solution to build a new-generation IP backbone network. (more…)