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    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Alibaba
      Alibaba revenue falls for first time since New York listing

      Chinese ecommerce group’s shares climb after results beat low expectations

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Finance’s big tech problem

      A growing dependency on cloud computing could spell danger, warns BIS

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos’s next ‘big short’ is data centres

      Short seller bets against Reits that own big server warehouses on risks that customers will become rivals

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      #techAsia
      E-bikes in Indonesia and stormy skies for China’s cloud giants Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      News in-depthChinese business & finance
      Alibaba and Tencent’s darkening clouds

      Chinese tech giants lag behind pace of US rivals as Beijing favours state vendors

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Broadcom Inc
      Chipmaker Broadcom to buy software group VMware for $69bn

      Takeover would help transform acquisitive semiconductor company in to diversified tech business

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Microsoft woos Brussels as battle over the cloud intensifies

      Prospect of digital domination by US computing giants is causing anxiety in Europe

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft relaxes cloud terms to avoid full EU antitrust probe

      Licensing rules related to Azure service had come under scrutiny from rivals and regulators

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Fintech
      UK cloud banking fintech Thought Machine doubles valuation to $2.7bn

      Unicorn brings Morgan Stanley on board as client and investor

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      Special ReportExchanges, Trading and Clearing
      Cloud computing powers the world’s financial exchanges

      Embracing the cloud is not just a case of improving infrastructure, experts believe, but also a way to drive transformation

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      Amazon.com
      Amazon earnings weighed down by falling sales and high costs

      Company says push to expand during pandemic left it ‘overstaffed’ and predicts more sluggish growth

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft waves off macroeconomic worries with bullish forecast

      Chief predicts strong tech spending despite broader worries about slowing growth and inflation

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      LexSalesforce.com Inc
      Tech stocks: cash, not growth, leads share prices   Premium content

      Salesforce will have to do more deals after buying Slack to match Microsoft’s suite of services

    • Friday, 18 March, 2022
      Lex
      Google/cloud: third place is good enough Premium content

      Given the global shift to remote data storage, high growth is expected to continue

    • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
      InterviewAmazon Web Services
      Growth at Amazon Web Services continues despite ‘painful’ outages, says chief

      Adam Selipsky tells FT the cloud computing business has avoided a post-lockdown slowdown faced by the likes of Zoom

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      Amazon.com
      Amazon stock has best day since 2015 after Prime price rise and cloud boost

      Rivian stake also helps lift tech group’s earnings despite drag from rising wage and transportation costs

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Lex
      PRA/cloud data: financial regulator right to venture out of wheelhouse Premium content

      UK watchdog seeks to bolster banks’ security while taking less prescriptive approach than EU

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      UK banks
      UK financial regulators to step up scrutiny of cloud computing giants

      The Prudential Regulation Authority is concerned at risk of disruption to banks if cloud services fail or are hacked

    • Friday, 17 December, 2021
      Oracle Corp
      Oracle nears deal to buy health IT company Cerner for $30bn

      Acquisition of electronic medical records provider would push software group deeper into fast-growing sector

    • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
      From angry Adele fans to broken robot vacuums: AWS outage ripples through US

      Millions hit by suspension of services that use cloud computing, including Amazon deliveries

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Special ReportNext Tech Growth Markets
      Digital demand sets cloud computing on course for next stage

      Spending is forecast to rise as AI and data mining require more processing power

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      CME Group Inc
      Google strikes $1bn ‘cloud’ deal with exchange operator CME Group

      CME plans to accelerate shift of trading systems into Google data centres under 10-year pact

    • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
      LexAlibaba
      Alibaba: new chip could end up costing an Arm and a leg Premium content

      UK and US links risk exposing Chinese group’s core computer systems to political disputes

    • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Google bets on the cloud breaking up

      Search giant seeks to catch up with Amazon and Microsoft by taking advantage of two key trends

    • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
      Technology sector
      Start-up founder Octave Klaba wants to build European cloud-computing champion

      OVHcloud makes its debut on France’s stock exchange this week

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