Alibaba's cloud business continues to surge

Tom Wright
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Chinese vendor says cloud arm saw sales growth of 66 per cent

Alibaba has continued its rapid public cloud expansion, with sales rising by two thirds in its recent second quarter. The overall Alibaba business saw revenue rocket 42 per cent to 114.9bn yen d...

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