All articles by Alice Nunwick

Alice Nunwick

Technology Reporter for GlobalData Media.

Alibaba customers face another cloud outage this month

Alibaba Cloud customers in Hong Kong, mainland China and the US all faced outages.

Protein engineer AI start-up Cradle raises $24m in Series A funding round

Cradle announced plans to expand its lab space in the Netherlands.

Signal: shoppers predicted to have spent over $12bn this Black Friday despite M&A downturn

By 2027, GlobalData expects the e-commerce market to be worth over $9.3trn. 

China remains an important economic partner to South Korean tech, says trade minister

South Korea’s trade minister Ahn Duk-geun spoke to Nikkei about the US’ updated trade rules for South Korean companies.

Critical need for new era of antitrust in the tech sector – Australian competition authority

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission warned that antitrust regulation needs to consider the dominance of Big Tech.

First AI safety global agreement signed and led by UK’s cyber threat authority

The guidelines were signed by 18 countries, including the US, South Korea and Japan.

Indian government instructs social media platforms to control deepfakes

Deepfake technology uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create images or videos of people, usually an impersonation.

Signal: Amazon hit by biggest ever global protest on Black Friday holiday

GlobalData expects the e-commerce market to be worth $9.3trn by 2027. 

US import laws impede launch of Nvidia chip in China

According to GlobalData, research and development (R&D) spending in China was recorded at 2.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021.

GM’s Cruise to relaunch robotaxi fleet

Cruise recently withdrew its vehicles from service after being involved in a number of high-profile road accidents.