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Tencent Games said today that it upgraded its measures to protect minors from June 17, expanding the application of facial recognition technology to screen users suspected of being minors.

Tencent Holdings plans to become the largest shareholder in iQiyi to cut costs, Reuters said today, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.

Tencent recently announced that it is working with industry chain partners to advance the development of the P2861 international standard for mobile game performance optimization.

Tencent today announced its AI avatar "Ai Ling", claiming that she has an almost lifelike voice based on Tencent AI Lab's AI digital human technology and can sing as emotionally charged as a human.

Tencent Video recently announced a new round of organizational restructuring for its video business that may herald its efforts in rival Bilibili, China’s equivalent of YouTube.

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent said it has raised a total of US$6 billion in debt across multiple series of notes.

In an interview with Guangming Daily today, Tang Daosheng, president of Tencent's Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group, revealed that Tencent will invest 500 billion yuan in the next five years for the further layout of new infrastructure.

Many gaming companies have already announced their respective earnings figures for 2019 externally, and today, a fellow netizen on the ResetEra forum rounded up the data of several game majors that have already announced their earnings so far.

Pony Ma, a delegate to the National People's Congress of China and Chairman of the Board and CEO of Tencent, will be absent from this year's "two sessions" for medical reasons, according to the Southern Metropolis News.

In April, Tencent PUBG Mobile's global revenue exceeded US$225 million, up 241% from the same month last year, and ranked as the top-selling mobile game in the world, according to Sensor Tower data.