Tencent

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent has teamed up with a number of TV manufacturers, including TCL, Hisense, Changhong and Konka, to launch a TV version of its START cloud game platform.

Tencent recently added several new patents, one of which involves smart driving technology, meaning the Chinese social giant is also taking aim at this hot new industry.

Tencent Xuanwu Labs has successfully breached the latest MacBook equipped with the M1 chip and the iPhone 12 Pro using newly discovered security flaws, according to Tencent Security.

Tencent generated revenue of RMB 125.45 billion in the third quarter, higher than market estimates of RMB 123.83 billion, the company reported today.

Tencent Cloud announced on October 14 that it has opened its first 5G edge computing center, which is being deployed to address issues such as lack of computing power and network latency that have long plagued real-time HD audio and video, smart communities, smart healthcare, industrial Internet and other scenarios.

WeChat for Windows version 3.0.0 has now been updated to add address book management and support for mini-program desktop fixes.

The US government is exploring restrictions on Ant Group as well as Tencent over concerns that their digital payment platforms threaten US national security, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.

Tencent Group's PCG (Platform and Content Group) is celebrating the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival by giving away Huawei foldable phones to its employees.

Tencent Cloud today launched Lighthouse, a lightweight application server which the company claims is "easy for even elementary school students to grasp".

Existing WeChat users in the US may be able to continue to communicate using the WeChat app, but the WeChat app may not be able to acquire new users in the US due to the ban, Tencent said in an announcement filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.