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Alibaba Elevates Cloud Efforts With $1 Bil Investment

Alibaba Group (BABA) is expanding its cloud computing tentacles with a new $1 billion investment to expand efforts in international markets. Already the largest public cloud-services company in China, Alibaba said the money will be used to expand international operations through its cloud unit, Aliyun. It plans new centers for cloud services in the Middle East, Singapore, Japan and Europe. Alibaba, which also is China’s largest e-commerce firm,

Apple, Samsung lose ground in tablet market

Apple (AAPL) and Samsung, the top two makers of tablet computers, lost market share in the second quarter as smaller rivals like Lenovo and LG Electronics gained share, market research firm IDC reported Wednesday. Worldwide shipments of tablets fell 7% year over year to 44.7 million units in Q2. But market leader Apple saw its shipments drop 17.9% and No. 2 Samsung notched a 12% decline, IDC said. Apple’s tablet market share slid to 24.5% in Q2 from 27.7% in the same quarter last year. Samsung’s tablet share dipped to 17% from 18%. China-based Lenovo came in No. 3 with 5.7% market share, up from 4.9%. Its tablet shipments rose 6.8% in Q2. China’s Huawei and South Korea’s LG Electronics recorded a statistical tie for fourth place. Huawei’s tablet shipments rose 103.6%, while LG’s rose 246.4%. IDC put Huawei’s market share at 3.7% and LG’s t 3.6%. The top five

Twitter Needs ‘Radical’ Shift To Heal Growth Ills

Twitter’s (TWTR) growth “has hit a wall,” potentially derailing the microblog’s attractiveness to advertisers and sabotaging its stock price for the near term, according to analysts who weighed in the day after company executives cautioned that mass market growth wouldn’t come anytime soon. Twitter late Tuesday also posted a Q2 earnings beat, but investors focused on slumping user growth. Twitter stock was down 13% in midday trading in the stock