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Data centre operator Equinix will set up a third International Business Exchange data centre in Perth, bringing its total data centres in Australia to 18.

India has given WhatsApp, which is owned by social media giant Facebook, permission to start a payments service in the country, with the rollout initially limited to 20 million users.

Claiming "cloud-native intelligence products accelerate customers’ digital transformation", Alibaba unveiled a series of innovative products at its 12th annual Apsara Conference.

China has added about 75 million Internet users in the 12 months to July this year, according to the China Internet Report 2020, a yearly compilation that looks at the digital world in the Middle Kingdom.

Much as it did in global shipments for the second quarter, Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has done likewise in China, leading its home market by shipping 40.2 million units in the quarter and extending its market share to a massive 44%. There was a broad swathe of daylight between Huawei and second-placed vivo.

The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute is acting to ratchet up tensions with Australia's major trading partner China and using funds it gets from the Federal Government for this purpose, more than $20 million at last count, the Australian arm of the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei Technologies says in a strongly-worded blog post.

China's cloud infrastructure services market grew 66.9% in the final quarter of 2019 as total expenditure reached US$3.3 billion, the tech analyst firm Canalys said, adding that the country represented 10.8% of the global total, making it the second largest market. Cloud services were extremely useful in fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

Countries in the Asia Pacific region are showing keen interest in quantum computing and pledging significant investments, according to one analyst firm which says that the quest for quantum computing supremacy is set to gather momentum in the next few years.

The outbreak of coronavirus in China offers a unique opportunity for vendors offering communications and collaboration services, according to one global analyst firm which says that organisations, need to continue to collaborate to remain productive.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has launched a global B2B sourcing platform which it says will allow countries such as Australia to connect medical-goods suppliers of all sizes with frontline medical personnel who are working towards slowing the spread of novel coronavirus in China.

International tourists to mainland China will be able to use a version of the Alipay app to make cashless payments from their phones, a report says. Alipay is owned by Ant Financial, an affiliate of retail giant Alibaba.

Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba has announced a refresh of its core values which it says strengthen the company’s culture for navigating through the “fast-changing” digital era.

Australian brands and Australian products will be live-streamed to millions of Chinese consumers via Chinese opinion leader Lia Baby at Alibaba Group’s annual eCommerce Expo which has kicked off in Sydney with the aim of connecting Australian and New Zealand businesses with new export markets in China.

 Payment platform Adyen is collaborating with Chinese leading payments platform Alipay to support payment methods for the AliExpress, Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com brands globally.

Facebook, Amazon, Google are the companies most at risk from regulatory crackdown in the advertising sector, according to the latest Thematic Scorecard for the sector from analyst firm GlobalData.

Amazon is once again the number one vendor in the global infrastructure as a service market, with the worldwide IaaS market growing 31.3% in 2018 to total US$32.4 billion, up from US$24.7 billion in 2017.

The use of artificial intelligence and the implementation of social credit are two key overarching trends identified as drivers in a new report on use of the Internet in China.

Global spending on automated home devices is expected to reach US$75 billion by 2025, up from US$23 billion in 2018, with much of that growth driven by two types of devices - smart thermostats and smart speakers.

China dominated the global smart speaker market in the first quarter of 2019, with nearly 51% or 10.6 million units being shipped, following by the US which accounted for 24% of shipments or 5.0 million units, down from 44% in the final quarter of 2018, the analyst firm Canalys says.

Augmented reality and virtual reality will rely on 5G to change the customer experience inside and outside retail stores, according to one global analyst firm.