Tencent revenue and profit miss on higher AI investmentTencent Holdings announced first-quarter results below market expectations. Revenue and net profit missed forecasts. Gaming revenue saw gro...
13 May, 2026, 06.49 PM IST
China tech giant Tencent sees Q1 profit jump after AI betsTencent reported a 21% surge in quarterly net profit, reaching 58.1 billion yuan, driven by significant investments in the booming artifici...
13 May, 2026, 03.24 PM IST
DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in first fundraising: SourcesChinese AI firm DeepSeek is seeking a massive valuation of up to fifty billion dollars in its first funding drive. The company aims to rais...
06 May, 2026, 08.52 PM IST
Big Chinese tech firms scramble to secure Huawei AI chips after DeepSeek V4 launchAmidst the growing competition in artificial intelligence, Chinese tech behemoths are racing to secure Huawei's Ascend 950 AI chips. The ur...
29 Apr, 2026, 12.33 PM IST
China’s Netflix expects AI to create bulk of shows in five yearsIQiyi Inc. is set to transform its operations, anticipating AI will generate most films and shows within five years. The company is launchi...
20 Apr, 2026, 04.41 PM IST
ByteDance rolls out AI voice assistant for Chinese smartphonesByteDance is rolling out a new AI voice assistant, powered by its Doubao model, starting with ZTE’s Nubia M153 smartphone. The tool handles...
01 Dec, 2025, 02.17 PM IST
ByteDance profits jump 60%, beating tech rivals: reportThe profits of TikTok owner ByteDance jumped around 60 percent in 2023, Bloomberg reported Wednesday citing sources, beating online rivals ...
10 Apr, 2024, 08.37 PM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance's profit jumps 60% in 2023 amid worries of US banByteDance Ltd. witnessed a remarkable 60% surge in profits in 2023, surpassing industry giants Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Hold...
10 Apr, 2024, 01.22 PM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance's revenue growth slowed to 70% in 2021Chinese tech giants from Tencent to Alibaba have reported slowing growth amid a wide-ranging crackdown by the country's regulators who have...
21 Jan, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
In fresh regulatory move, China tells tech giants to stop blocking rivals' linksThe comments, made by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, mark the latest step in Beijing's regulatory crackdown that has ...
13 Sep, 2021, 04.31 PM IST
ByteDance says it will downsize fintech business, plans to sell stock broker opsByteDance also operates Douyin Pay, its own third-party mobile payment, to facilitate users on e-commerce transactions on short video app D...
02 Sep, 2021, 12.05 PM IST
ByteDance launches Volcano Engine brand to offer TikTok 'secret' to businessesThe algorithm is considered the "secret sauce" behind short-video app TikTok's global success and was one of the focal points when China's ...
10 Jun, 2021, 05.03 PM IST
Tencent's quarterly revenue jumps 26%, helped by online gamesProfit rose 175% in the same period to 59.3 billion yuan, largely thanks to fair-value gains in companies Tencent has invested in, and sale...
24 Mar, 2021, 04.04 PM IST
Tencent bolsters defenses for core businesses as ByteDance muscles into its turfTikTok owner Bytedance has made sizeable inroads into business areas Tencent holds dear - including ads, gaming, livestreaming, social medi...
09 Feb, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
TikTok’s former chief to oversee investment at ByteDanceA former SAP SE employee researching education software, Alex Zhu co-founded the lip-syncing app Musical.ly in 2014, which was later acquir...
22 Jul, 2020, 09.25 AM IST
TikTok's parent, ByteDance, launches global hiring spree with 10,000 new jobsLike rival Tencent Holdings Ltd, ByteDance’s social media channels have seen usage spike after the Covid-19 pandemic confined millions of p...
15 Apr, 2020, 09.05 AM IST
Baidu CEO is talent shopping in IndiaBaidu is trying hard to diversify into AI tech from its Chinese-language search engine, as it falls behind the other two in the global tech...
06 Jan, 2020, 11.29 AM IST