Will China ease its new video game controls? Investors think soWhen trading resumed after the four-day holiday weekend in Hong Kong, Tencent rose about 4%, and NetEase jumped 12%, recovering some of the...
28 Dec, 2023, 12.55 PM IST
Free Fire back in India as Hiranandani and Singapore's new citizen navigate through govt's China banSea Ltd. is relaunching its mobile game, now called Free Fire India, in the country after it was banned a year and a half ago. The game wil...
31 Aug, 2023, 05.26 PM IST
Tencent says is making personnel adjustments after report of layoffsTencent, Asia's biggest internet company, told Reuters it was untrue that it planned to disband the business. It said it was making adjustm...
16 Feb, 2023, 06.48 PM IST
China's Tencent said it fired more than 100 employees over corruption in 2022The disclosure comes after Tencent's founder Pony Ma in a townhall last month said serious "corruption" issues had been discovered within t...
16 Jan, 2023, 09.43 AM IST
Tencent fires 5,500 workers as sales down for first time since going publicTencent has downsized its workforce for the first time since 2014, slashing the number of employees to 110,715 by the end of June, down fro...
21 Aug, 2022, 08.14 PM IST
India blocks Krafton's Battlegrounds Mobile India on concerns over data sharing in ChinaThe Indian government has not publicly announced the blocking. But the app was removed from Alphabet Inc's Google Play Store and Apple Inc'...
29 Jul, 2022, 02.36 PM IST
Tencent chief causes stir with repost of article on China's economyThe article, which Pony Ma reposted early on Saturday, lamented that there were few people in China willing to speak up about the pressures...
23 May, 2022, 04.27 PM IST
NGO urges government to ban BGMI-PUBGBGMI is published by South Korean studio Krafton in India, and is an Indian version of its popular battle royale game, PlayersUnknown Battl...
28 Feb, 2022, 06.16 PM IST
Govt to keep close eye on Chinese origin appsThis came a day after it was revealed that 54 such apps, including many from the stables of large Chinese technology companies such as Alib...
15 Feb, 2022, 02.30 PM IST
India to keep up heat on China apps accessing data illegally"Chinese apps are constantly changing names or hosts to access sensitive data of Indians. The government will keep scanning them from time ...
15 Feb, 2022, 09.48 AM IST
CAIT calls for a ban on Shopee following govt ban on 54 Chinese apps"Surprised Chinese company Shopee is not there in the list of ban apps. Though it has the same parent company Garena Free Fire and is owned...
14 Feb, 2022, 11.16 PM IST
China apps ban: Gaming, beauty and dating apps dominate latest listThis is the fifth round of major bans of Chinese apps by the Indian government following border tensions with China in 2020.
14 Feb, 2022, 05.37 PM 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
China blocks app's social media after post on Tiananmen anniversaryThe Weibo page of Xiaohongshu—a Pinterest-like platform where users share travel and shopping tips—published a post on June 4 saying, "Tell...
07 Jun, 2021, 11.43 AM IST
China launches antitrust probe into Tencent-backed property broker KE -sourcesKE Holdings, which operates housing platforms Lianjia and Beike in China, was warned last month by the State Administration for Market Regu...
25 May, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
Didi Chuxing close to raising $1.5 billion for trucking unitA $1.5 billion funding round will push Didi Chuxing beyond its fundraising target for Didi Freight, even as investors count on Chinese econ...
26 Jan, 2021, 08.36 PM IST
2019 app roundup: Tinder, Netflix in top non-gaming list, Candy Crush Saga & PUBG Mobile favourite gamesGames offering in-app purchases continued to lead overall rankings.
18 Dec, 2019, 02.18 PM IST