18 articles
Gaming
A game based on one of China’s greatest classic novels will be releasing this year
Chinese video game developer Game Science has released a new trailer for its highly anticipated “Black Myth: Wukong,” a game based on one of...
Bryan Ke
China
Chinese gaming stocks soar amid Beijing’s apparent U-turn on strict gaming regulations
Chinese gaming stocks soared after news that the country’s video game regulator had seemingly scrapped proposed rules aimed at curbing...
Ryan General
China’s AI rivals to ChatGPT now available to the public
Multiple AI chatbots have been approved for public release in China this week, marking an end to waitlists that have dragged on for months. ...
Carl Samson
News
Tencent Reportedly Lists High Number of Coronavirus Deaths, Infections Before ‘Correcting’
Tencent allegedly accidentally released the real numbers of deaths and infections from the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, quickly c...
Asia
Tencent Employees Wait in Line For 3 Hours To Get Red Envelopes From Billionaire Boss
Tencent Holdings chairman Pony Ma has made it his company’s Lunar New Year tradition to distribute red envelopes containing money to employe...
Redditors Protest After Reddit Accepts $150 Million From Chinese Censorship Giant Tencent
Redditors have taken to flooding their platform with Winnie the Pooh and Tiananmen Square pictures in an apparent protest against the news t...
Business
Tencent Now Worth More Than Facebook With $523 Billion Valuation
China’s Tencent Holding Limited is now more valuable than Facebook getting ahead of the social media giant’s net worth by $1 bil...
Kyle Encina
China’s Tencent is Now Worth Over $500 Billion
Massive Chinese tech company Tencent just hit a new milestone, exceeding 3.99 trillion Hong Kong dollars ($510 billion) in market value. Ten...
WeChat Admits It Gives All Private User Data to the Chinese Government
WeChat users have now been informed that their favorite messaging app is sharing pretty much all of their private data with the Chinese gove...
‘Missing’ Chinese Billionaire Reappears, Drops $1 Billion to Build New University
Before Jack Ma’s Alibaba and Pony Ma’s Tencent became the titans in China’s tech industry, there was Chen Tianqiao’s Shanda. Chen, who becam...
Jack Ma is No Longer the Richest Man in China
Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma has been unseated from his throne as China’s richest man, based on Forbes’ real time ranking of the riche...
Chinese Firm Shuts Down AI Chatbots After They Rebel Against The Communist Party
Two chatbots developed by a Chinese tech company were temporarily put offline after expressing dissent against the Communist Party. Media co...
China’s Tencent Paid an Employee Almost Double What Apple’s Highest Paid Earned
Chinese tech firm Tencent, owner of the messenger app WeChat, was recently revealed to have paid some impressively high salaries last year, ...
Tencent Draws Backlash After Extremely Sexist Dinner Party Game
Tencent, the Chinese company behind the popular messaging service WeChat, apologized for hosting a sexually suggestive game during one of it...
Baller Chinese Tech Company Surprises Employees With $220 Million Worth of Shares For Its Birthday
China’s Tencent Holdings, one of the world’s largest Internet companies, celebrated its 18th anniversary by giving its employees more than $...
China’s Tencent Buys ‘Clash Of Clans’ Developer Supercell For $8.6 Billion
China’s Tencent has officially confirmed its purchase of a huge stake in mobile game creator Supercell, the studio behind the massivel...
Tencent CEO Pony Ma Named the Most Generous Chinese Philanthropist in Hurun Report
Pony Ma, the billionaire founder, chairman and CEO of China’s Tencent, has been named the most generous Chinese philanthropist in a 2016 rep...
Editorial Staff
The Billionaire Founder of China’s Tencent is Donating $2 Billion to Charity
Ma Huateng, chairman of Tencent Holdings Ltd., recently announced his plans to give away 100 million shares of his company to a new charity...
Laura Dang
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