Final Fantasy 14 Mobile is in the works at Tencent

Final Fantasy 14 Mobile is in the works at Tencent

Tencent Games The wildly popular MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 is coming to mobile thanks to an upcoming port from Tencent. Final Fantasy 14 Mobile is set to replicate the core experience in a new “mobile-friendly format.” Details are scarce right now, but both combat and non-combat features will be replicated for the port, along with visual … Read more

Tencent adds 3,000 jobs in third quarter, signalling Big Tech growth in China amid AI race

Tencent adds 3,000 jobs in third quarter, signalling Big Tech growth in China amid AI race

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings added more than 3,000 jobs in the third quarter, in a sign that the country’s most valuable technology company is on a new growth trajectory after the industry was beset by downsizing in recent years. The Shenzhen-based company had 108,823 employees by the end of September, up 3 per cent … Read more

Tencent beats estimates with 47% profit jump, driven by video gaming

Tencent beats estimates with 47% profit jump, driven by video gaming

Tencent Holdings, operator of China’s biggest social media app and the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue, beat analyst estimates with a 47 per cent profit jump in the third quarter, helped by renewed growth in the video gaming segment. Profit reached 53.2 billion yuan (US$7.4 billion) in the three months ended September, up … Read more

China iPhone users urged to turn off FaceTime app to stop scammers

China iPhone users urged to turn off FaceTime app to stop scammers

Police in at least two Chinese cities have called for residents to turn off the FaceTime app on their iPhones to block scams. In an article published on social media on Tuesday, police in Beijing said some scammers used FaceTime to steal money. In May, a man in Hangzhou, in eastern Zhejiang province, received a … Read more

China approves 128 titles in October, including hit Korean game Goddess of Victory: Nikke

China approves 128 titles in October, including hit Korean game Goddess of Victory: Nikke

China has given the nod to 128 Chinese and foreign video games for domestic release in October, a batch that includes the highly anticipated Goddess of Victory: Nikke, backed by Tencent Holdings, as excitement in the country’s gaming industry continues following the release of Black Myth: Wukong. The National Press and Publication Administration, the agency … Read more

Humanoid robot could recharge China’s manufacturing labour shortage

Humanoid robot could recharge China’s manufacturing labour shortage

A Chinese robot maker has received over 500 orders from carmakers for an industrial humanoid robot, according to local media reports, in a development that may soon help ease China’s manufacturing labour shortage. UBTech’s Walker S1, officially unveiled on Monday, has already begun training in factories, including those of the world’s largest electric vehicle maker … Read more

Inside China’s US$5 billion micro drama industry, which has the US in its sights

Inside China’s US billion micro drama industry, which has the US in its sights

On a film set that resembles the medieval castle of a Chinese lord, Zhu Jian is busy disrupting the world’s second-largest movie industry. The 69-year-old actor is playing the patriarch of a wealthy family celebrating his birthday with a lavish banquet. But unbeknown to either of them, the servant in the scene is his biological … Read more

Must have experience: impossible catch for pressured Chinese students seeking internships

Must have experience: impossible catch for pressured Chinese students seeking internships

Young Chinese hoping for a top job after graduation meet increasing competition and pitfalls on the way to building an eye-catching resume. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to … Read more

New AI supply chain standard brings together Ant, Tencent, Baidu and Microsoft, Google, Meta

New AI supply chain standard brings together Ant, Tencent, Baidu and Microsoft, Google, Meta

The companies unveiled their “Large Language Model Security Requirements for Supply Chain” on Friday with the World Digital Technology Academy (WDTA), during a side event at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai. This new standard, which covers the entire life cycle of LLMs, is part of the WDTA’s broader AI Safety, Trust, and … Read more

Alibaba merchants hail adoption of Tencent’s WeChat Pay on Taobao and Tmall

Alibaba merchants hail adoption of Tencent’s WeChat Pay on Taobao and Tmall

Alibaba Group Holding’s plan to finally accept Tencent Holding’s WeChat Pay for purchases on its online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall is expected to help the e-commerce giant attract older consumers, as well as shoppers in lower-tier cities, according to merchants and analysts. Following Alibaba’s announcement to incorporate WeChat Pay, known locally as Weixin Pay, as … Read more