China's DeepSeek releases new AI model a year after viral riseChinese AI firm DeepSeek unveiled a new model with significantly lower costs and a massive one million word context. This development promi...
24 Apr, 2026, 11.23 PM IST
Gaming industry could unlock $22 billion in profits on AI-driven cost cuts: Morgan StanleyArtificial intelligence is set to revolutionize game development. Analysts predict AI tools could slash costs by almost half, unlocking bil...
22 Apr, 2026, 07.03 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
Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China's AI ambitionsDespite reports and rumours about its imminent release, DeepSeek's next-generation "V4" model is nowhere in sight. Speculation is also swir...
09 Apr, 2026, 08.26 AM IST
Russia sees China's WeChat, Douyin as models for its homegrown Max messengerThe Kremlin is pushing Russians to use Max instead of Telegram, currently the country's most popular messaging app, but is facing stiff r...
08 Apr, 2026, 05.38 PM IST
Trump administration debates allowing Tencent to keep its gaming stakes: ReportThe White House is reportedly debating whether to let Tencent retain its stakes in major video game companies, including U.S. firm Epic Gam...
04 Mar, 2026, 06.59 AM IST
Tencent turns to ByteDance in gaming showdown with NetEaseTencent released on Friday mobile party game "DreamStar" that it hopes to challenge "Eggy Party", a similar offering from NetEase which has...
18 Dec, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
China's Tencent revenue growth below expectations; gaming falls shortTencent's core gaming business experienced weaker-than-expected growth in the quarter through June. Domestic gaming revenue was little chan...
16 Aug, 2023, 09.21 PM IST
Tencent says its self-developed video transcoding chip enters mass productionThe Shenzhen-based company, best known for its popular messaging platform WeChat, said in a post published online that tens of thousands of...
17 Apr, 2023, 04.02 PM IST
Tencent reports first-ever drop in annual revenueIts revenue for the fourth quarter ended December rose 1% from a year earlier to 144.95 billion yuan, versus a consensus estimate for about...
22 Mar, 2023, 02.33 PM IST
Tencent chief blasts managers in fiery townhallPony Ma said at a year-end meeting with staff on December 15 that internal reviews this year had exposed unspecified corruption within Asia...
23 Dec, 2022, 11.45 AM IST
Tencent seeks to raise stake in 'Assassin's Creed' maker Ubisoft, sources sayChina's largest social network and gaming firm, which bought a 5% stake in Ubisoft in 2018, has reached out to the French firm's founding G...
04 Aug, 2022, 04.26 PM IST
China readies sizeable penalty for Tencent in sweeping antitrust crackdown, say sourcesTencent faces penalties for not properly reporting past acquisitions and investments for antitrust reviews, an offence with a fine capped a...
29 Apr, 2021, 11.02 AM 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
ByteDance says its video games unit will acquire Mooton TechnologyThe acquisition of the video games studio come as ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and the similar Chinese short video platform Douyin, has m...
22 Mar, 2021, 01.46 PM IST
Tencent leads $110 million funding round in MX PlayerThe funding by Tencent will further intensify the competition in the domestic over the top, or OTT market which has been growing exponentia...
30 Oct, 2019, 09.09 AM IST
Tencent cloud may steal the thunder from Google, AWSWhile the company is yet to set a timetable for a formal rollout, it has been scoping out the market for the past few months, initiating pr...
03 Jul, 2018, 07.53 AM IST