Chinese multi-purpose social media platform, WeChat, has hit one billion monthly users in February. Speaking at a media briefing, Tencent (WeChat's parent company) CEO Ma Huateng revealed it's the first time the app has crossed the milestone. The vast majority of WeChat users are based in China, where it's known as Weixin, and where the recent Lunar […]
Last week saw Indian telecommunications company, Reliance Jio launch its own cryptocurrency. We begin the new week with interesting news from China that Baidu, the internet giant is launching a Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) product. Although, this announcement from Baidu is coming a couple of months after a competitor, Tencent announced the launch of their own BaaS. Baidu […]
WeChat is a free messaging & calling app that allows you to type text but also let's you perform voice & video calls, and the good news is that, according to our sourcesm, it's going to be released on Tizen very soon. This would be the third high profile messaging app to run on […]
More details emerge from IDF beijing 2011 about the joint innovation center that is to be created between Intel and Tencent. Here are the details from a post by PCWorld: Intel is establishing a joint innovation center with Tencent, one of China's largest Internet firms, to develop products and services around the chip […]
Slowly MeeGo is creeping further into the limelight and this can also be seen at IDF Beijing 2011 where today there was an announcement from Tencent and Intel launching a joint Innovation Centre in Shanghai renewing a promise to bring games to MeeGo tablets. Tencent has commited to expand their labs from 60 engineers […]
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