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X to Offer Streaming and Financial Services in 2025 With X TV and X Money, Says CEO
X (formerly Twitter) will offer financial and streaming services in 2025, the company CEO announced on Wednesday. This move builds upon the microblogging platform’s ambitions of becoming an “everything app” and competing against other platforms such as China’s WeChat under the leadership of Elon Musk. The official also highlighted X’s eff...
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Tencent Begins Testing of Self-Developed AI Model; Integrates With Internal Services, Products
China's Tencent Holdings said on Thursday that it has started internal testing of its self-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model, which is now being integrated with a number of internal services and products. In a statement sent to Reuters on Thursday, Tencent said its foundation AI model named "Hunyuan" has been integrated with a range of ...
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Tencent Is Bringing Content Creators to WeChat to Challenge TikTok's Dominance
WeChat Pay became the second-biggest player in China's mobile payment market within a year of its 2013 launch, behind Alipay which is owned by Jack Ma-founded Ant Group. Two sources familiar with Tencent said the importance of Channels has been repeatedly communicated within the company.
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Foxconn to Ease COVID-19 Restrictions at Biggest iPhone Factory in China, End 'Closed Loop' System
Reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them is claimed to reduce an individual's carbon footprint, an idea that has also been propagated in various news stories. However, quantifying the carbon footprint of sending emails, or any other digital service, is not an easy task. Here's everything you need to know about whether sending f...
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Microsoft Said to Plan 'Super App' to Loosen Grip of Google, Apple on Mobile Search Space
Microsoft is said to have recently considered building a "super app" to loosen the hold of Apple and Google on the mobile search space. The company may have considered a super app with shopping, messaging, news and web search services according to a report.
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Elon Musk Wants to Make X, an 'Everything App': All You Need to Know About Super Apps
Elon Musk on Tuesday tweeted about the purchase of Twitter being an accelerant to creating X, an "everything app". A super app, or everything app as Musk calls it, has been described as the Swiss army knife of mobile apps, offering a suite of services for users such as messaging, social networking, peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce shopping. The...
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Tencent, Alibaba Have Submitted Details of Algorithms Used in Their Products, Says China Regulator
Tencent and Alibaba, along with other Chinese tech giants, have submitted details of algorithms used in some of their products, complying with a drive by authorities to tighten oversight of platform algorithms. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a list of 30 algorithms used in some of the country's most popular apps with brief d...
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How Super Apps Might Be the Next Big Thing in India
Super apps, or apps that remove the intermediaries and third-party services in favour of their own, are growing in popularity. Apps like WeChat, which has over 125 crore users, offer a wide variety of services tailored to personalised consumer preferences. Here's how super apps, whch aready popular in other countries such as China, Indonesia, and S...
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Popular Chinese Messaging Platform WeChat Prohibits Accounts Dealing in NFT, Crypto Services
Tencent’s WeChat intends to impose penalties on public accounts facilitating secondary trading of non-fungible token (NFTs). Accounts offering transaction channels and guidance for cryptocurrencies have also been targeted by the new rule.
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Yahoo, LinkedIn, Fortnite: Why Are Foreign Tech Firms Pulling Out of China?
Yahoo is leaving the China market, suspending its services there as of Monday amid what it says is an “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment.
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WeChat Makes Content Searchable on Google and Bing
WeChat has made its content searchable on some foreign search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing.
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TikTok-Parent ByteDance Says It Will Downsize Fintech Business, Plans to Sell Stock Broker Operations
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, said that it would shrink its financial services unit and that it planned to sell its stock broking operations amid China's tightening grip on the financial technology sector.
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Apple, Google, WeChat Digital Wallets May Face New Regulation Laws in Australia
The Australian government is considering new laws that would tighten the regulation of digital payment services by tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet's Google.
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Ethiopia to Build Local Social Media Platform to Rival Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp
Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency said on Monday.
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Tesla Hiring Managers for Legal, External Relations Workforce in China Amidst Public Scrutiny
Tesla is hiring managers for legal and external relations teams in China, according to a job post on its WeChat account, as the electric car maker faces public scrutiny in the country over safety and customer service complaints.
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X to Offer Streaming and Financial Services in 2025 With X TV and X Money, Says CEO
X (formerly Twitter) will offer financial and streaming services in 2025, the company CEO announced on Wednesday. This move builds upon the microblogging platform’s ambitions of becoming an “everything app” and competing against other platforms such as China’s WeChat under the leadership of Elon Musk. The official also highlighted X’s eff...
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Tencent Begins Testing of Self-Developed AI Model; Integrates With Internal Services, Products
China's Tencent Holdings said on Thursday that it has started internal testing of its self-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model, which is now being integrated with a number of internal services and products. In a statement sent to Reuters on Thursday, Tencent said its foundation AI model named "Hunyuan" has been integrated with a range of ...
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Tencent Is Bringing Content Creators to WeChat to Challenge TikTok's Dominance
WeChat Pay became the second-biggest player in China's mobile payment market within a year of its 2013 launch, behind Alipay which is owned by Jack Ma-founded Ant Group. Two sources familiar with Tencent said the importance of Channels has been repeatedly communicated within the company.
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Foxconn to Ease COVID-19 Restrictions at Biggest iPhone Factory in China, End 'Closed Loop' System
Reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them is claimed to reduce an individual's carbon footprint, an idea that has also been propagated in various news stories. However, quantifying the carbon footprint of sending emails, or any other digital service, is not an easy task. Here's everything you need to know about whether sending f...
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Microsoft Said to Plan 'Super App' to Loosen Grip of Google, Apple on Mobile Search Space
Microsoft is said to have recently considered building a "super app" to loosen the hold of Apple and Google on the mobile search space. The company may have considered a super app with shopping, messaging, news and web search services according to a report.
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Elon Musk Wants to Make X, an 'Everything App': All You Need to Know About Super Apps
Elon Musk on Tuesday tweeted about the purchase of Twitter being an accelerant to creating X, an "everything app". A super app, or everything app as Musk calls it, has been described as the Swiss army knife of mobile apps, offering a suite of services for users such as messaging, social networking, peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce shopping. The...
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Tencent, Alibaba Have Submitted Details of Algorithms Used in Their Products, Says China Regulator
Tencent and Alibaba, along with other Chinese tech giants, have submitted details of algorithms used in some of their products, complying with a drive by authorities to tighten oversight of platform algorithms. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a list of 30 algorithms used in some of the country's most popular apps with brief d...
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How Super Apps Might Be the Next Big Thing in India
Super apps, or apps that remove the intermediaries and third-party services in favour of their own, are growing in popularity. Apps like WeChat, which has over 125 crore users, offer a wide variety of services tailored to personalised consumer preferences. Here's how super apps, whch aready popular in other countries such as China, Indonesia, and S...
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Popular Chinese Messaging Platform WeChat Prohibits Accounts Dealing in NFT, Crypto Services
Tencent’s WeChat intends to impose penalties on public accounts facilitating secondary trading of non-fungible token (NFTs). Accounts offering transaction channels and guidance for cryptocurrencies have also been targeted by the new rule.
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Yahoo, LinkedIn, Fortnite: Why Are Foreign Tech Firms Pulling Out of China?
Yahoo is leaving the China market, suspending its services there as of Monday amid what it says is an “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment.
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WeChat Makes Content Searchable on Google and Bing
WeChat has made its content searchable on some foreign search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing.
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TikTok-Parent ByteDance Says It Will Downsize Fintech Business, Plans to Sell Stock Broker Operations
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, said that it would shrink its financial services unit and that it planned to sell its stock broking operations amid China's tightening grip on the financial technology sector.
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Apple, Google, WeChat Digital Wallets May Face New Regulation Laws in Australia
The Australian government is considering new laws that would tighten the regulation of digital payment services by tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet's Google.
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Ethiopia to Build Local Social Media Platform to Rival Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp
Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency said on Monday.
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Tesla Hiring Managers for Legal, External Relations Workforce in China Amidst Public Scrutiny
Tesla is hiring managers for legal and external relations teams in China, according to a job post on its WeChat account, as the electric car maker faces public scrutiny in the country over safety and customer service complaints.
