Yang Chenguang, a Chinese national, was sentenced to three months’ jail, for cheating 3 travellers into thinking he gave them legitimate VIP tickets, and helped them gatecrash Taylor Swift’s concert.

Video game sales, traditionally Tencent’s strongest revenue driver, declined in the fourth quarter.

PLA cuts ties with China Far East International Tendering Co, saying the company violated confidentiality rules by forwarding information via WeChat and email and storing documents on unprotected computers.

Liu Changjian, 33, a Chinese national, allegedly staged his own kidnapping while in Singapore to cheat his relatives of roughly US$4,200.

Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay are enhancing operations to make it easier for foreign travellers to pay for goods and services on the mainland, the world’s largest cashless society.

The increased interest in bitcoin reflects how a community of cryptocurrency enthusiasts on the mainland continues to thrive, despite a sweeping government ban.

The company says its latest upgrade makes iMessage more secure than WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, QQ, WeChat – or even Signal.

Tencent and ByteDance each had two apps in the top five, with four of the five being more than a decade old, according to MIIT report on Lunar New Year period usage.

Paying for everything from daily goods to big-ticket items with mobile devices in China rapidly became fast and convenient for Chinese people, but it can leave outsiders feeling like their money is not wanted.

Chief executive Liang Rubo said ByteDance has become slow and inefficient in the face of increased competition.

The founder also warns staff to focus on ‘safety, not speed’ when venturing into new fintech services like loans and insurance, according to Chinese media reports and people familiar with the situation.

The Shenzhen-based internet giant must find new lifelines in its video gaming and social media operations, Ma told employees at the firm’s annual meeting.

The call to break more digital barriers in China’s internet industry comes days before Tencent’s flagship video game, Honour of Kings, returns to ByteDance-owned Douyin’s live-streaming platform.

More than 80 per cent of parents said they had posted about their children, but 43.4 per cent of youngsters said it embarrassed them and 28 per cent ‘hated’ it.

Tencent has bet on swiftly building its online retail business on the back of the mainland’s vast number of WeChat users, estimated at 1.34 billion.

The 2021 WeChat photo controversy sparked widespread privacy concerns at the time, although Ma says issue was fixed with an update.

The Shanghai Municipal Tax Service’s explainer became widely circulated on Sunday after some local crypto enthusiasts suggested that authorities are starting to acknowledge the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies.

Stores could further drain customers away from Hong Kong retailers and replicating the big box stores in city may be impossible, given land and logistics costs.

Finance live streamers on WeChat must now be licensed professionals and cannot offer market predictions, according to the new rules.

A man in Beijing was detained by police and accused of sharing images of Kathy Chow’s medical records after her passing on Monday.

The Shenzhen-based tech giant is on track to sell 100 billion yuan worth of goods on WeChat Channels this year, according to Chinese media.

The strategic cooperation between Ant and Huawei underscores the growing momentum of HarmonyOS’ adoption in the world’s biggest e-commerce and smartphone market.

Tencent, China’s biggest social media and video gaming company, is closing its live-streaming service Now, as the company continues to consolidate its video businesses.

Tencent Holdings is integrating WeCom, the enterprise version of ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, with its in-house large language model Hunyuan, to develop industry-specific AI applications for healthcare clients.

The National Radio and Television Administration has proposed a range of measures to ‘strengthen and refine management’ of short web dramas, including a sweeping review of each series’ cast, production, marketing and social values.

China needs to develop 1 million artificial intelligence-native applications and less AI large language models, according to Baidu co-founder, chairman and chief executive Robin Li.