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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is opening a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace with the approval of the Sichuan provincial government. The marketplace launched this week as a new section on Alibaba Auction, the Chinese tech giant’s online auctioning platform. Dubbed “Blockchain Digital Copyright and Asset Trade,” the service enables…

The Chinese multinational technology giant, Alibaba Group, has launched a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. According to regional reports, the Alibaba NFT platform not only provides customers with the ability to purchase and sell NFTs, but the marketplace also allows people to license and sell intellectual property (IP), as it is…

Researchers from Microsoft, Alibaba, and Carnegie Mellon have published a paper detailing an anti-piracy system based on blockchain technology. A group of researchers from Microsoft, Alibaba, and Carnegie Mellon University have published a research paper that speaks of a blockchain-based anti-piracy campaign system called Argus. The system is based on…

Alibaba has launched a new marketplace allowing trademark holders to sell NFTs representing licenses to their copyright. 19224 Total views 214 Total shares Chinese multinational e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding has launched a new nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace allowing trademark holders to sell tokenized licenses to their intellectual property. The…

CIW / Technology / Mini Program platforms 2021: WeChat vs. Alibaba vs. Baidu (Updated) August 16, 2021 By CIW Team Mini Programs (MP) are light applications designed to run on top of a specific mobile app. Top technology companies in China have designed and run their own mini-program framework; and,…

During its annual summit on June 8, 2021, Alibaba Cloud announced its new Project AsiaForward initiative to bring digital transformation to enterprises in Asia and nurture fresh talent. Alibaba Cloud also shared its plans to invest USD 1 billion across six Southeast Asian markets, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, within the…

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Two men were detained Saturday on suspicion of sexual assault in a case that shook Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, Chinese police announced. The men, identified by the surnames Wang and Zhang, were suspected of the crime of “forcible molestation,” police in the eastern city of Jinan…

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. A sexual assault case at Alibaba has sparked a new round of #MeToo reckoning in China. Industry observers believe this is…

Published: 11:05pm, 14 Aug, 2021 Updated: 11:01pm, 15 Aug, 2021 Read More

The logo of Alibaba Group is seen at its office in Beijing, China Jan. 5, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo SHANGHAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A former male employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is suspected of committing "forcible indecency" against a female colleague, but not rape, according…