Tencent Creates Advertising Division In Silicon Valley

Chinese Internet company Tencent is establishing a new advertising division in its Palo Alto office to provide services to American …

Tencent May Have Just Defeated Baidu At Its Own Game In China

Baidu is a poorly-executed search engine. But with both government regulations handcuffing its development and lack of competition in China, …

Sohu Closes Internet Forum Service Tomorrow

Sohu’s community forum service, which was launched in 1999 in China, will officially close on April 20, 2017. Sohu is …

Starbucks Teams With Tencent To Deploy WeChat Payment In Mainland China

Starbucks and Tencent have formed a strategic partnership to deploy WeChat payment in Starbucks stores in mainland China. Starting from …

Avaya Reaches Strategic Cloud Communications Deal With Tencent

mobile advertisingAvaya (Shanghai) Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. and Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement to implement …

EMS Links Its Courier Network To Tencent’s Messaging Services

WeChat and EMSChina Postal Express & Logistics Company Limited announced that they have reached a full strategic cooperation with the Chinese Internet …

Chinese Healthcare Entrepreneur Passes Away

Zhang RuiSad news for technology watchers during the Golden Week holiday: tech startup and former editor Zhang Rui has passed away. …

Wanda Group Awakens Social Media With We-Media Coalition

Wanda We-media CoaltionChina-based Wanda Group announced that they will cooperate with 100 social We-media providers to establish the “Wanda We-media Coalition”. This …

White Paper: China Newswire Says Brand Storytelling Is Vital Task For Social Media Interaction With Consumers

Shanghai, China, September 1, 2016 /ChinaNewswire.com/ – Twenty years ago, brands could take their time to craft a brand with Chinese consumers. But today, the Internet compels companies to use faster techniques to build brands, engage influencers, and put out social media fires. And the cornerstone focus for companies should be on effective brand storytelling.… Read More

Tencent’s New Quarterly Results Show Strong Growth In Cloud Computing

tencentTencent Holdings recorded gross revenue of RMB35.691 billion (US$5.382 billion) during the second quarter, a 52% increase over the same …

Tencent Unveils Social CRM Service In China

tencent-qidianChinese Internet company Tencent has launched a customer relationship management product named Tencent Qidian that integrates the company’s various social …

Censorship Is LinkedIn’s China Friend As It Boasts User Milestone

LinkedIn Censorship in ChinaShen Boyang, LinkedIn’s global vice president and China president, said that the company’s number of users in China has surpassed …

Americans Can Now Use China’s Didi Ride Hailing App

ride hailingChinese taxi-hailing app Didi is now available in America and users can complete payment via WeChat or Alipay with automated …

Chinese Mobile Phone Users Sent 699.2 Billion Texts Last Year

Messaging ChinaChinese mobile phone users sent out a total of 699.2 billion short messages in 2015, according to statistics from the …

WeChat Amps Up Competition With New Phone Call Function

China’s WeChat, the instant messaging app by Tencent, has Facebook’s WhatsApp, Japan’s Line, and Microsoft’s Skype service in its sights …

China’s Tencent Invests In Another American Mobile Game Firm

Tencent reportedly invested USD60 million in the acquisition of a 20% stake in Pocket Gems, a start-up mobile game company in America. Tencent will gain one position on the board of directors at Pocket Gems, according to reports in foreign media. Founded in 2009, Pocket Gems is headquartered in San Francisco and the company is […]

Is China Mobile Now Competing With Whatsapp And Wechat?

Chinese information technology solutions provider Ultrapower’s wholly-owned subsidiary is helping China’s biggest mobile provider compete with instant messaging apps like Facebook’s Whatsapp, Tencent’s Wechat, and Apple’s iMessage.

Tencent Makes USD70 Million Bet On Chinese Healthcare Social Networking

Tencent Holdings Limited is investing USD70 million into Ting Ting Group, the owner of Chinese online healthcare service community DXY.cn. Tencent gains a minority equity stake of DXY on a fully diluted and as converted basis, and the deal is expected to close soon. DXY plans to invest the capital into developing healthcare products for […]

Xbox One Starts China Sales Via JD.com’s Social Media Channels

With a newly-minted IPO under its belt, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. announced today that is now taking pre-orders for Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming console. As part of an agreement between the companies, JD.com will have the exclusive right to accept pre-orders for Xbox One in China from July 28-30, 2014, through JD.com’s Mobile QQ […]

Social Media Messaging Causes China Mobile’s First Annual Profit Drop

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced its annual results for 2013 in Hong Kong, and those financial numbers did not impress. During the entire year of 2013, China Mobile’s operating revenue was CNY630.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%; but its net profit was CNY121.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 5.9%. This is reportedly the […]

Chinese Social Media Monitoring Firm Raises Investment

SocialTouch, one of the many startups in China trying their hand at monitoring Chinese social media, has raised its latest round of investment. The company’s Series C investment round was led by Sierra Ventures and included existing investors GGV Capital and Legend Capital. This new round of funding will be used for product development and […]

Twitter’s IPO Showcases Chinese Growth Hurdles

Twitter’s just-released initial public offering prospectus shows China is still an important deficit in its global growth strategy. In Twitter’s F-1 IPO statement, the company said it is raising USD1 billion, which is largely a pro forma number until the company calculates fees and eyes its roadshow. The company recorded USD317 million in revenue in […]

Tencent Appoints New VP For E-commerce Business

Chinese Internet company Tencent sent an internal email to announce that Bu Guangqi, chief executive officer of Yixun.com, has been appointed new vice president of Tencent.

Tencent’s WeChat Boasts 50 Million Registered Users

Chinese Internet company Tencent announced that its WeChat service has gained over 50 million registered users.

Tencent Cuts Staff In North American Game Studio

Chinese Internet company Tencent recently completed its staff layout in its North American office, and about 20 employees were dismissed during this adjustment, accounting for 40% of its total employees in North America.

China’s Tencent Invests CNY400 Million In South Korean Mobile Chat Application

Chinese Internet company Tencent revealed in its financial report for the first quarter of 2012 that the company acquired a 13.84% stake in KakaoTalk, a South Korean mobile communication application, for CNY403 million.