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China's Tencent to allow PayPal payments through its WeChat networks

Chinese tech giant Tencent is enabling PayPal users to pay with QR codes across China through its WeChat Pay network. This move aims to attract more foreign tourists by simplifying cashless transactions. Initially available to US PayPal users, the feature will expand to other markets.

The Economic Times

In a tourist-friendly move, China's Tencent to allow PayPal payments through its WeChat networks

Tencent says users of PayPal will be able to make payments in China using QR codes through WeChat Pay's extensive merchant network, in a tourism friendly move

The Independent UK

Top arcade game maker leaks nearly 19 million user records via WeChat mini app

Researchers found a new Elasticsearch instance containing plenty of sensitive data.

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TIME named him world's most influential 3 times, yet most people don't know Chinese titan Tencent's $63 billion boss - who is Ma Huateng?

Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is the influential co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Tencent, a global tech conglomerate. Despite a low public profile, his leadership has built Tencent into a powerhouse in gaming, social media, and financial services, with WeChat boasting over 1 billion users. Forbes estimates his…

The Economic Times

HUYA Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

HUYA (NYSE:HUYA) reported first-quarter net revenue growth as the company continued to shift its business mix beyond live streaming and into game-related services, advertising, game publishing and in-game item sales. Acting CEO Vincent Junhong Huang said total net revenues rose 15% year over year t

MarketBeat

Blazing hot IPOs, an AI agent craze, and a new word for ‘token’: Here’s what’s happening in the world of Chinese AI

China hopes to build a “token economy,” backed by open-source models and real-world AI applications—even as U.S. export controls still hold things back.

Fortune

Tech Brief (April 1): Huawei’s Revenue Growth Slows in 2025

U.S. chipmaker Onsemi increases investment in China, Chinese satellite startup GalaxySpace kicks off IPO

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Chinese Spies 'Targeted US College Women For Years': Stanford Student Reveals Chilling CCP Bid To Recruit Her

A Stanford student's allegations of being targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative underscore the ongoing vulnerability of US universities to foreign espionage.

International Business Times UK

China could be the ‘big winner’ in the AI race, thanks to abundant power, cheap manufacturing, and an open-source craze

Mohit Kumar, Jefferies’s global macro strategist, cites valuations, cheap power, and “wider adoption of AI” for his bullishness on China’s tech sector.

Fortune

Tech Brief (March 23): ByteDance Sells Game Studio to Saudi Wealth Fund

Tencent merges AI Lab into Hunyuan team, XPeng posts first-ever quarterly profit

Caixin Global

Tech Brief (March 19): Nvidia Restarts Production of H200 Chips for China

Tencent annual profit rises 16%, Alibaba Cloud raises prices for AI computing and storage products

Caixin Global

Tech Brief (March 11): The Alibaba Engineer Behind Qwen Who Walked Away

TikTok clears Canadian national security review, Tencent moves to bring OpenClaw into WeChat

Caixin Global

Accused China asset 'fabricated' Rudd reports for cash

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was asked for advice about Australian defence and security by a businessman "groomed" by Chinese spies, a jury has heard.

AAP

Chinese woman bound, robbed, left in crashed Mercedes

A Chinese woman found wrapped in adhesive tape inside a crashed Mercedes-Benz at the back of a Pattaya housing estate told police she had been lured there and robbed.

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WeChat is now a frontline policing tool in China. Here’s what my research found

WeChat is best known as China’s all-purpose “super-app”. It is used for everything from messaging and mobile payments to shopping and government services.

International Business Times

Apple Cashes In on WeChat; iPhone to Take Cut from Mini Apps in China

Apple will now handle payments for WeChat apps and games in China, earning a 15% cut from billions in transactions from 1.41 billion users.

Caixin Global

Tech Brief (Nov. 14): Baidu Unveils Ambitious AI Chip Roadmap

Tencent said it is making ‘constructive’ progress in talks with Apple over how to share revenue from mini-games on its WeChat app, JD.com beat revenue expectations in the third quarter, but profits took a hit as the e-commerce giant upped investment in its fledgling food delivery unit.

Tom’s Hardware

China says it has foiled a series U.S. cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure — Ministry of State Security says it has 'irrefutable evidence' NSA tried to cause 'international time chaos'

China’s Ministry of State Security has taken to social media to boast about foiling a series of cyberattacks it says were directed by the U.S. National Security Agency.

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China Accuses US Of Cyberattacks On National Time Center, Warns Of Threats To Financial Systems, Power Grid

China's Ministry of State Security on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out long-term cyberattacks on the country's National Time Service Center, saying it uncovered evidence of stolen data and credentials dating back to 2022, according to a statement posted on WeChat.

The Guardian - UK

‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part professor, part friend

TechRadar

Nothing Ear (3) earbuds land and just 4 days into testing them, the new 'Super Mic' is the case perk I never knew I needed

Nothing's 'first of its kind' Super Mic is built into the Nothing Ear (3)'s case and for content creators (and even just mere mortals who like to call people), it could be a game-changer

The Independent UK

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

The Independent UK

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

TechRadar

Russia wants to ban Google Meet - but probably not for the reason you might expect

Russia could ban Google Meet after similar crackdowns on WhatsApp and Telegram, pushing its local Max alternative instead.

Tom’s Hardware

China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’

A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips.

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