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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 |
China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge
Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised
On-Prem29 May 2020 | 12
China's clouds have hyperscale parents and global ambition – but are they contenders for your apps?
Yes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don't expect a comfortable ride
SaaS26 May 2020 |
Tencent pop group, formed on a Tencent TV show, boosted Tencent games and Q1 revenue
Chinese web giant also flings cash at cloud and videoconferencing to capture 'This working from home thing could really catch on' sentiment
SaaS14 May 2020 | 2
United Nations reportedly tears up Tencent's invite to its big 75th birthday bash
Deal announced two weeks ago would have seen shiny new VooV vid chat tool used around the world
Security16 Apr 2020 | 7
Tencent is now bigger than Cisco and Lenovo – and predicts this virus thingy will help it get bigger still
21 percent growth sees FY '19 revenue hit US$54bn, just a billion or so behind LG and Facebook
SaaS19 Mar 2020 | 15
Redditors start flinging Pooh after mega-forum takes cash from Chinese behemoth Tencent
Oh, bother! Users can't bear the thought of censorship
Bootnotes12 Feb 2019 | 20
You better watch out, you better not cry. Better not pout, I'm telling you why: SQLite vuln fixes are coming to town
May your days be merry and bright, and may you all go patch your SQLite
Security18 Dec 2018 | 13
Big bimmer bummer: Bavaria's BMW buggies battered by bad bugs
How much to hack a flash motor? Ask Tencent
Security23 May 2018 | 47
Snap: We've blown $3bn this year and Tencent wants to give us more
Shut up and take my money!
On-Prem08 Nov 2017 | 14
Fake mobile base stations spreading malware in China
'Swearing Trojan' pushes phishing texts around carriers' controls
Security23 Mar 2017 | 10
Well, that sucks: China's Tencent so sorry after vid emerges of faux blowjob office game
Video Cloud giant's staff party leaves little to imagination
Legal18 Jan 2017 | 43
Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen
Pic Rights warriors gives their two cents on Tencent's nonsense
Software30 Sep 2016 | 58
Regulators, take note: Tencent is now Asia's biggest company
It's worth how much?
On-Prem06 Sep 2016 | 5
Tencent targets Alibaba, seeds data cloud with £1bn investment
Chinese tech giants strap on the boxing gloves
SaaS16 Sep 2015 |
Tencent stripped of antivirus rankings for cheating on tests
Another week, another Chinese firm accused of gaming system
SaaS06 May 2015 | 4
Bulging booty bird Kim Kardashian date game biz adds Britney Spears to bottom line
Tencent gets more junk in its trunk with Glu acquisition
On-Prem30 Apr 2015 | 3
Tencent introduces slimmed-down wristjob TOS to swollen market
Megacorp hopes to keep a firm grip on users' things
SaaS28 Apr 2015 | 8
Google is tech industry and world's most valuable brand as Apple rots
Sony drops from top 100 as Chinese web brands surge up the charts
Channel21 May 2014 | 20
China's web giants unite to defuse Windows XP bombshell
Tencent, Sogou, Kingsoft and others will provide support for local users
Software25 Feb 2014 | 13
Who wants 10TB of FREE cloud storage? Hands down if China is a deal breaker?
Hands up if you're just gonna use it for, er, cat videos?
SaaS20 Nov 2013 | 13
Tencent offers 10TB of free cloud storage for all
Afraid of PRISM? China to the rescue!
Storage30 Aug 2013 | 49
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