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Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency

Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs

Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3

Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon

Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival

OSes23 Jul 2024 | 6

Tencent ponders banning infomercials hosted by 'virtual humans' on its flagship video service

Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits

AI + ML18 Jun 2024 |

Tencent, Microsoft link app stores in China

Intel joins in with plans for better PC-Android integration

Personal Tech29 May 2024 | 2

Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix

Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages

Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2

China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence

Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too

Software11 Mar 2024 | 7

Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units

Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts

Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |

Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged

And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine

Off-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 3

Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions

Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets

Personal Tech22 Jan 2024 | 2

Tencent shrugs off effect of US sanctions and says Chinese suppliers will fill GPU gap

Ordered enough Nvidia kit to keep evolving its AI and has plans to work around bans

On-Prem17 Nov 2023 |

Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices

Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'

Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 11

Beijing freezes social media service for a month for letting kids see smut

TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better

Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 6

Alibaba opts out of Ant Group stock buyback

Sign of confidence or … something bigger?

Systems24 Jul 2023 | 1

China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent

Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO

Networks10 Jul 2023 | 1

Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship

Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory

AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5

China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors

Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong!

AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5

Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions

AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 9

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 | 5

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