Several Chinese-developed apps have been quietly removed from the Indian Apple and Google Play stores in recent days.

A Beijing court has ruled against social media and gaming giant Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance for misuse of user data amid rising concerns in China over data privacy

The government’s crackdown comes at a time when China and the US are battling for global dominance in cutting-edge technologies, such as 5G networks

Internet giant Tencent’s latest deal has the potential to shake up a market long dominated by Baidu and fend off competition from TikTok owner ByteDance.

Tencent, Sogou’s biggest shareholder, offers to pay US$9 a share for US-listed search engine operator as relations remain strained between Washington and Beijing.

WeChat’s new short video feature, Channels, enters a market currently dominated by TikTok’s Chinese version Douyin and Tencent-backed Kuaishou.

The stakes are high for Tencent to comply with the ban because at least 10 of the company’s apps have been blacklisted in India, including QQ Mail, QQ Music and short-video platform Kwai.

The latest move continues Beijing’s sustained crackdown on commercial breaches of personal privacy in the world’s largest internet market.

A range of online services – from videoconferencing, remote learning and delivery to cybersecurity and video games – is expected to become more deeply entrenched in people’s everyday lives.

Telecommunications giant Huawei was awarded the most number of patents in the first half of this year, followed by smartphone rival Oppo and display maker BOE.

A code of conduct for China’s booming live-streaming e-commerce industry is the first step towards regulating a new marketing tool widely adopted by offline merchants

The acquisition will help expand the audience of Tencent’s WeTV streaming platform across Southeast Asia, which has an internet population of 360 million.

The Cyberspace Administration of China called out 10 live-streaming platforms, including those backed by Tencent, Alibaba, Bytedance and Baidu, for spreading lowbrow content

A growing group of researchers worldwide are questioning how social biases, especially those related to gender and race, can be amplified through machine learning systems

Tencent’s planned 132.6-hectare Net City in Shenzhen’s Dachanwan port area is slated to start construction by the end of this year, according to architects NBBJ.

Widespread 5G service coverage is expected to drive the roll-out of various smart mobility initiatives in Hong Kong, including cellular vehicle-to-everything systems that will help support the launch of autonomous driving.

The Beijing Internet Court ruled against iQiyi in a lawsuit over the extra fees charged by the Baidu-backed streaming video service on a paying subscriber to watch advance episodes of a popular Chinese drama series.

The five-year plan will have Tencent focus on fields that include cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and the Internet of Things, as well as the infrastructure to support them like advanced servers, supercomputers, data centres and 5G mobile networks.

The proposals are similar to existing age verification systems implemented by the likes of Tencent and NetEase, which have been keen to demonstrate their self-policing actions

Xinhua called out local Chinese government officials who have used live-streaming sales sessions as publicity stunts for their own benefit

The gaming industry has been one of the major beneficiaries of the stay-at-home orders issued globally during the Covid-19 pandemic – but are the gains sustainable?

The Tencent founder may not attend this year’s annual National People’s Congress, but he is expected to submit in absentia a range of proposals including on the industrial internet, financial technology and medical services.

The coronavirus pandemic has been ‘challenging’ for Foodpanda, which competes with the likes of Deliveroo, Grab and Go-jek in the Southeast Asian food delivery market, its Asia-Pacific chief executive Jakob Angele says.

The China Consumers Association reported an escalation of complaints from shoppers, who were enticed by live-streamed campaigns, about product quality, fake deliveries and lack of after-sales service during the country’s Labour Day holiday.

Internet giant Tencent, which runs the world’s biggest video games business and China’s largest social media operation, reported a 6 per cent increase in net profit to US$4.1 billion in the March quarter.

Chinese internet giant Tencent purchased a 5 per cent stake in Australia-listed Afterpay as part of an overseas push into the smart retail market

Alibaba investigation found that Jiang Fan’s actions had not resulted in a conflict of interest but triggered public debate which damaged company’s reputation.

Besides gaming and social media, Tencent’s investments now cover artificial intelligence, consumer retail, education, financial technology and more.

Chinese digital reading platforms signed up 100 million new users in February, the height of the coronavirus outbreak in China, according to a new industry whitepaper

A total of 4,000 attraction sites will be open for tourists during the May break, a record number since the pandemic.