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Tencent falls $90b behind e-commerce giant Alibaba after NBA China Clash
At stake now for Tencent are billions of dollars in ad and subscription revenue, along with its strategy of becoming a go-to online destination for entertainment beyond gaming.
Welcome to China. You Probably Can’t Buy Anything, Though.
Foreign tourists in China looking to buy a bottle of water or a taxi ride are finding themselves out of luck, with many merchants only accepting money by QR code.
90 Minutes a Day, Until 10 P.M.: China Sets Rules for Young Gamers (Published 2019)
Officials say regulations are meant to curb video game addiction, which they blame for a rise in nearsightedness and poor academic performance.
Taylor Swift’s Chinese Payday Is Decades Overdue
Widespread piracy once prevented artists from cashing in on enormous Chinese audiences. No longer.
China tech stocks are 'screaming buys,' Invesco's Kristina Hooper says
Invesco's Kristina Hooper believes China tech companies have been unfairly punished by the trade war.
China Sticks to Game Blackout as NBA Season Kicks Off
China’s CCTV is sticking to its pledge to drop National Basketball Association coverage two weeks after a league official’s Twitter post roiled its business in the mainland.
Disney and Tencent to Put Out New Chinese ‘Star Wars’ Story
Disney and Tencent's China Literature will release a Chinese “Star Wars” online novel and 40 older e-books in Chinese for the first time.
NBA's China Scuffle Teaches Silicon Valley A Lesson
Hi it’s Shelly in Hong Kong. I just returned from a trip to Silicon Valley, where a red scare has washed over the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Future Of Adrian Wojnarowski's Tencent Show Is Up In The Air After He "Liked" Daryl Morey's Hong Kong Tweet [Update]
Now that last week’s roiling spat between the Chinese government and the NBA has mostly cooled, the global-sports-industrial complex is back to business as usual. Pre-season NBA games were held in China on Thursday and Saturday and everything went off relatively smoothly (with only a few minor hitches), and the…
Tencent resumes NBA preseason broadcasts after brief suspension · TechNode
The game suspension started on Oct 8 and lasted just five days.
Tencent Gets ‘Wakeup Call’ From China’s Assertions of Patriotism
Tencent Holdings Ltd. can’t get a break.
Chinese state media and Tencent suspend broadcast of NBA preseason games in China
Chinese state-run TV network CCTV also said it will "immediately investigate all co-operation and exchanges involving the NBA."
Tencent leads E-round funding in Chinese online educator Vipkid · TechNode
The Beijing-based platform had been struggling to raise fundraise against a challenging backdrop of stricter regulations in the industry.
China Slips in Its Rush to Embrace Electric Vehicles
The world’s fastest-growing market for electric vehicles is slowing, raising concerns that even in tech-hungry China, EVs could be a hard sell for years to come.
Oddball Policies Give Boost to China’s Insurers
The country’s high internet penetration lets insurance companies market their products to a large population via apps.
WSJ News Exclusive | China’s Tencent to Invest in Educational Startup VIPKid
Tencent Holdings is set to invest $150 million in VIPKid amid concerns over the online education company’s business model.
U.S. Official Escalates China Rhetoric With Alibaba and Tencent Criticism
A mid-level official with the State Department asserted in a little-noticed speech on Wednesday that several huge Chinese tech companies—Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu—were effectively arms of the Chinese government. His comments raised the prospect that the Trump administration, which in May ...
Taylor Swift Album Hits 1 Million in China Sales, Beating U.S.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift may be more popular in China than the U.S., going by the first-week sales of her latest music.
China’s Potential New Trade Weapon: Corporate Social Credits
Foreigners worry that Beijing will use its developing corporate “social credit” system as a weapon against international companies amid the U.S.-China trade war.
EU officials draft radical plan to take on US and Chinese tech giants
In addition to Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, leaked document lists Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent as firms Europe needs to rival.
