Apple’s Tim Cook takes on crucial new role: Global ambassadorTim Cook steps into a new role as executive chairman, dedicating more time to global diplomacy for Apple. He will engage policymakers world...
22 Apr, 2026, 07.23 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
Elon Musk says X could soon receive payment licenses in New York, CaliforniaElon Musk expects his social media platform X to obtain a money transmitter license in New York, advancing payment features. He aims for X ...
07 Mar, 2024, 08.38 AM IST
China's video games market recovers in 2023, domestic sales surpass $42.6 billionIndustry association CGIGC said at a conference in Guangzhou on Friday the industry's domestic revenue this year reached over 300 billion y...
15 Dec, 2023, 10.58 AM IST
Alibaba upgrades AI model Tongyi Qianwen, releases industry-specific modelsAlibaba's cloud computing arm at its annual conference in Hangzhou said Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 has "hundreds of billions of" parameters - a ben...
31 Oct, 2023, 09.36 AM IST
China's Tencent debuts large language AI model Hunyuan, says open for enterprise useHunyuan's debut comes after several Chinese tech firms including Baidu Inc and SenseTime Group recently unveiled their own AI models.
07 Sep, 2023, 10.46 AM IST
Tencent Music says facing increased China scrutiny, is committed to laws"In recent months, we have received increased regulatory scrutiny from relevant authorities, and have been actively co-operating and commun...
18 May, 2021, 10.37 AM IST
Zoom app usage explodes in IndiaZoom has seen a huge increase in downloads in India since quarantines and lockdowns were imposed to control the spread of the Covid-19 pand...
30 Mar, 2020, 05.43 PM IST
Tencent’s set for fastest growth since 2018 after virus outbreakTencent’s stock began climbing in February after the outbreak exposed the dichotomy of the world’s second largest tech economy. While virtu...
16 Mar, 2020, 10.18 AM IST
TikTok-maker is launching Google-like work tools during coronavirus outbreakBy focusing on the local China market first and targeting individual users, ByteDance will try to capture the latent demand in the country ...
11 Mar, 2020, 09.42 AM IST
Tencent, Alibaba office apps find fans in virus-affected schoolsTencent and Alibaba have in past years steadily built out their office apps as part of an overall effort to keep users locked into their re...
12 Feb, 2020, 10.15 AM IST
The internet is splitting into 2, thanks to US-China spatAs US icons like Google and Facebook come under fire for privacy violations and enabling hate speech, their Chinese counterparts are toutin...
12 Nov, 2018, 11.04 AM IST
China's grand internet vision is starting to ring hollowChina’s internet is more censored than ever while Silicon Valley’s efforts to break into market remains stymied.
08 Nov, 2018, 06.56 AM IST
Future Group working on ecosystem with m-wallet, insuranceIn the future, there will be more consolidation in order to form the right ecosystems, he said. “We want to make our ecosystem strong with ...
27 Sep, 2018, 08.03 AM IST
- Players, media added to All-Star Game voting process
BASKETBALL-NBA/ALLSTAR:Players, media added to All-Star Game voting process
20 Dec, 2016, 08.39 AM IST
Tencent unseats Alibaba as Asia's largest internet companyAlibaba surrendered the title of Asia's largest Internet company to Tencent, capping a 10-month slide for the ecommerce giant.
10 Sep, 2015, 10.06 AM IST
- Google scouts for buys to expand in southeast Asia
Google may buy tech assets to expand in SE Asia, following Internet operators including Tencent Holdings and Living-Social in acquiring cos.
25 Aug, 2011, 05.37 AM IST