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Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips

Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs

Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 3

Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages

Think the news has execs at Microsoft 365 or AWS quaking in their boots?

Networks14 Apr 2023 | 10

Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter

Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs

On-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 6

Tencent fired 100 people for corruption during 2022

A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts

Security17 Jan 2023 | 7

Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency

This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls

Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 9

Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips

PRC and chums see open-source chip architecture as safer alternative to Arm

Systems01 Dec 2022 | 11

Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence'

Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces

Software29 Sep 2022 | 5

Beijing signals Digital Yuan will integrate with existing payment schemes

It needs to, because the likes of Alipay are already ubiquitous – and already used overseas

Software13 Sep 2022 | 3

China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute

COMMENT Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 3

Tencent lines up to deploy Broadcom's co-packaged optical switches

A faster 51.2Tbit/sec co-packaged switch is also in the works

Networks22 Aug 2022 | 2

Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand

Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences

Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |

Tencent Cloud expands CDN using its own security tools

Cloudflare may well feel flattered by this offering

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 |

China may be the future for Mercedes-Benz

Partnership with Tencent is the latest sign automaker sees Middle Kingdom innovation as key to its success

AI + ML12 Jul 2022 | 5

Tencent Cloud slaps googly eyes on a monitor, says it can care for oldies

It's called 'i-Care' and it screams 'I don't, actually'

Personal Tech01 Jul 2022 | 30

Tencent admits to poisoned QR code attack on QQ chat platform

Could it be Beijing was right about games being bad for China?

Security28 Jun 2022 | 7

Tencent's WeChat wants no more talk of cryptocurrency and NFTs

In unrelated news, China's rollout of a central bank digital currency continues

Software22 Jun 2022 | 10

Tencent completes 50 million core migration of its own apps to its own clouds

Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever

Off-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 8

Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers

Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |

Beijing approves first new video games in nine months

14,000 small developers reported to have gone out of business during approval hiatus

Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 15

China: Our big tech companies are hiring, not shrinking

Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy

Software11 Apr 2022 | 4

China's digital currency comes to WeChat. Next stop: over a billion users

For now, a mere 80 million more citizens can trial the Digital Yuan

Software08 Apr 2022 | 5

China's top e-tailer sends sacked staff a 'graduation certificate'

Massive job losses reported across Middle Kingdom's tech sector

Personal Tech29 Mar 2022 | 16

Tencent Cloud ends pursuit of 'revenue growth at all costs'

Plans more SaaS and PaaS, and to stop selling IaaS at a loss

PaaS + IaaS24 Mar 2022 | 2

Three Chinese web giants create streaming video 'standard'

Updated ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud team on improvement to WebRTC's startup times

Software11 Mar 2022 | 13

Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots

Updated Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift

Security24 Jan 2022 | 16

Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com

Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing

Off-Prem23 Dec 2021 | 3

China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids

No crypto, no sex, no clips from the telly. Enthusiastic and historically accurate socialism welcome

Legal17 Dec 2021 | 29

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 |

Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat

Middle Kingdom's internet giant: It's a switch to enterprise apps. Try ours?

Applications26 Nov 2021 | 16

Tencent's growth slows as child gamers switch off under new Chinese laws

Founder Pony Ma reassures all he is proactively embracing new regulatory environment even as numbers take on less rosy hues

Software11 Nov 2021 | 3

Beijing orders Alibaba, Tencent, more Big Tech to stop blocking links to rivals

Play nice or else, Chinese government tells app, web giants in meeting without coffee

Personal Tech14 Sep 2021 | 10

Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming – and welcomes them

China is ahead of US and Europe on regulation, says company prez

Legal19 Aug 2021 | 13

Chinese state media describes gaming as 'spiritual opium' that stunts education and destroys families

Tencent shares dive and company restricts hours of play

Legal04 Aug 2021 | 81

Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads

Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed

Personal Tech30 Jul 2021 | 21

Tencent suspends signups to WeChat, citing 'security upgrade' and need to comply with Chinese laws

Promises everything will be back to normal sometime in early August

Security28 Jul 2021 |

Tencent to acquire Brit games developer Sumo Group

Pre-bid manoeuvring won 27 per cent of shareholders, £919M offer was a winning move

Software20 Jul 2021 | 11

Beijing bans merger of Tencent gaming outfits Huya and DouYu, to prevent a monopoly

Want to know what did get approval? Tencent’s bring-it-home acquisition of search engine Sogou

Legal14 Jul 2021 | 4

Tencent to put AI to work exploring space – not ways to extend its monopolies

Beijing likes space. Big tech? Not so much – at least this week

AI + ML09 Jul 2021 |

Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids

Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late

AI + ML08 Jul 2021 | 16

IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud

Big buyers understand infrastructure economics – and aren’t afraid to screw down providers' prices

PaaS + IaaS21 May 2021 |

China hauls in 13 web giants for ‘supervision interviews’

Tencent, ByteDance, pals invited to meeting without coffee over ‘disorderly expansion of capital’

Off-Prem30 Apr 2021 | 17

Tencent Cloud opens first Indonesian data center

Jakarta bit barn offers subset of services - CLI, GPU, some storage services, advanced security services and serverless aren't on offer

Off-Prem13 Apr 2021 |

Tencent nods to custom AMD servers as contributor to FY20 revenue and profit boom even as gamers and vid chats mashed its servers

Execs say they're unworried by new Chinese regs on monopolies and online loans

Off-Prem25 Mar 2021 |

ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services

Is there anywhere in the world TikTok isn’t in trouble?

Personal Tech03 Feb 2021 | 4

New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos

As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle

Legal04 Jan 2021 | 13

China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone

Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier

PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2020 | 8

Tencent admits to ‘soft’ cloud growth compared to hyperscale peers

Says Beijing’s internet monopoly and lending laws are nothing to worry about, pledges IaaS bounce-back

SaaS13 Nov 2020 |

PUBG frags Tencent, adopts Azure and makes digital clothes the default in bid to get back into India

Wipes away gore, dials up data protection and finds $100m to boost local gaming industry

Software13 Nov 2020 | 4

Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive

Ban on app ruled a restriction on free speech

Software20 Sep 2020 | 11

Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants

On regulatory grounds, but it’s hard not to chalk this up as more anti-China action

Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 12

Donald Trump thought-bubbles an Alibaba ban as Chinese clouds clam up about Clean Cloud plan

President says ‘other’ Chinese companies could feel the ban-hammer

SaaS17 Aug 2020 | 41

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

Files 'Please explain' memo to Washington as revenue jumps 29 percent and profit pops even higher

SaaS13 Aug 2020 | 14

Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor

Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain!

Software28 Jul 2020 |

Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers

Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei

Databases13 Jul 2020 | 1

India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese

They may have a point with some of them, though

Applications29 Jun 2020 | 19

Tencent floats bug bounties for its cloudy Linux and IoT OSes

CentOS-based code should already be pretty-well explored, but Chinese test isn’t exactly trusted right now ...

OSes11 Jun 2020 |