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Queues outside Tencent HQ for free AI agents spark debate on India’s AI push

A viral video showing crowds outside Tencent HQ installing AI tools fuelled online discussion about how China is accelerating mass AI adoption.
Published on Mar 06, 2026 08:30 pm IST

‘Assassin’s Creed’ maker Ubisoft to create a €4 billion subsidiary with Tencent

A package of the Assassin's Creed Shadows video game soft is lined up on the shelves of an electronics store in Tokyo on March 20, 2025.
Published on Mar 28, 2025 10:36 am IST

BGMI-maker Tencent's latest AI model to compete with China's DeepSeek

Tencent's AI model will rival China's Deepseek, which made waves in the global technology industry after its launch,
Updated on Feb 28, 2025 03:42 pm IST

Chinese firms and their founders at Xi's symposium

Chinese firms and their founders at Xi's symposium
Published on Feb 17, 2025 02:32 pm IST

Impending showdown in China-US techno-sphere

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FILE - A man rides past the Tencent headquarters in Beijing, China on Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) (AP)
Published on Jan 14, 2025 08:27 pm IST

US blacklists PUBG developer, Tencent, for alleged links to the Chinese military

(Image for representation) "DreamStar", a mobile game by Tencent, is seen on a mobile phone next to a logo of Tencent Games, in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/Illustration/File Photo
Published on Jan 07, 2025 07:12 am IST

Chinese tech giant Tencent posts 8% revenue growth in Q3

Chinese tech giant Tencent posts 8% revenue growth in Q3
Updated on Nov 13, 2024 03:21 pm IST

The Chinese Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet

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People play online games in an internet cafe in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province Friday, March 1, 2019. China's authority in charge of press and publications has approved 150 online games, saying it fully supports the industry after newly proposed curbs caused massive losses for major game companies. The National Press and Publication Administration issued a statement on its Weibo social media account Monday, Dec. 25, 2023, saying the approvals demonstrate active support for the development of online games.(Chinatopix via AP)
Published on Mar 14, 2024 08:00 am IST

Will Smith joins Tencent's Undawn on epic open-world survival RPG

Will Smith to star in Tencent's Undawn. (Image Credit: Tencent)
Published on May 26, 2023 07:00 pm IST

Tencent revenue falls for first time since going public

Tencent also cut around 5,500 jobs down to 110,715 employees by the end of June, the first quarterly decline in workforce since 2014.
Published on Aug 17, 2022 05:29 pm IST

China regulator says Alibaba, Tencent have submitted app algorithm details

In March this year, China passed new regulations  for tech platforms to disclose the algorithm they used in their apps.
Published on Aug 15, 2022 03:04 pm IST

China demands Tencent submit new apps and updates to inspection: Report

A Tencent logo is seen at its booth at China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing
Published on Nov 24, 2021 05:09 pm IST

Huawei removes Tencent games in dispute over cooperation

Huawei Technologies Co. removed Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s games from its app store in a spat over cooperation between the Chinese technology giants
Published on Jan 01, 2021 04:08 pm IST

China could restrict bank tie-ups with fintech platforms, official suggests

China’s former finance minister Lou Jiwei suggested that China could restrict the number of banks a single fintech platform can partner with
Published on Dec 20, 2020 02:50 pm IST

China’s Alibaba, Tencent unit fined under anti-monopoly law

In this file photo, a man talks on his phone as a woman rides on an electric bike past a company logo at the Alibaba Group headquarters in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. China’s market regulator on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 said it fined Alibaba Group and a Tencent Holdings-backed company for failing to seek approval before proceeding with some acquisitions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Updated on Dec 14, 2020 03:17 pm IST

Tencent’s profit surges 89% as Chinese giant rides on gaming boom

Tencent made 38.5 billion yuan (USD 5.8 billion) profit for the three months through September.
Published on Nov 12, 2020 07:21 pm IST

China turns up heat on internet giants with antitrust rules

Consumers in China have in recent years protested against the gradual erosion of their privacy.
Updated on Nov 10, 2020 02:48 pm IST

PUBG pulls India rights from China-based Tencent Games after ban

PUBG was banned in the third round of blocks ordered by the government in the wake of the increased military tensions between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Updated on Sept 09, 2020 12:16 am IST

Banned: PUBG, 117 China-linked apps

The banned versions of PUBG included PUBG Mobile Lite, a smaller version of the app, as well as PUBG Mobile Nordic Map: Livik, a recent game played on a Nordic terrain.
Updated on Sept 03, 2020 01:42 am IST

Kangana Ranaut welcomes ban on Chinese apps including TikTok, accuses the country of unleashing ‘bio-war’

Kangana Ranaut says the ban on Chinese apps will affect China’s economy.
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 04:05 pm IST

Jack Ma dethroned as China’s richest by Tencent’s Pony Ma

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the digitization of the workplace and changed consumers’ habits, boosting shares of many internet companies.
Updated on Jun 24, 2020 08:56 pm IST

Chinese company’s ‘inadvertent’ post puts coronavirus death figure at 24,000

There have been multiple reports of Wuhan officials cremating deceased coronavirus victims before they could be added to the official death toll.
Updated on Feb 07, 2020 07:16 am IST

After $140 billion wipeout, China’s two largest companies bid for comeback

Alibaba is weighing a secondary listing in Hong Kong that could raise as much as $20 billion, though the target is in flux.
Updated on Aug 13, 2019 12:04 pm IST

China deletes over 7 million pieces of online information, thousands of apps

China’s cyber watchdog said on Wednesday it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps.
Updated on Jan 23, 2019 06:05 pm IST

This 35-year-old unknown has created the world’s most valuable startup

Zhang Yiming, founder of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.
Updated on Sept 28, 2018 05:08 pm IST

Techno-dystopias are here: China is proof

A scene from the techno-paranoiac science fiction show Black Mirror’s dystopic episode called Nosedive. It is essentially about a social credit ratings system in society, a similar practice of social credit scores is now in China.
Updated on Jul 13, 2018 08:25 pm IST