Sources: Tencent and Apple signed a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after over a year of talks
Tencent Holdings Ltd. has agreed a deal with Apple Inc. that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15% cut …
Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is “currently being developed” for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform
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DeepSeek completes a “minor trial upgrade” to R1 and says users can now start testing it, according to its post in an official WeChat group
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Tencent releases five AI tools that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat
Tencent's five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users, the company said in a statement.
A look at Huawei's HarmonyOS Next, a China-only OS decoupled from Android that is still missing many third-party apps, despite supporting some key ones in China
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Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need to obtain a license by next year
The platforms include Meta Platforms Inc.'s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram; Elon Musk's X; Google's YouTube; Pavel Durov's Telegram …
How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products
Just a point for this article. India's installed base is given at 400 million. Last i saw it had crossed 600 and growing rapldly. It's the social glue here like iMessage in the us or line in Korea ...
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses
Key contributions — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS … X: @citizenlab , @thegrugq , @jsrailton , and @citizenlab X: @citizenlab : WeChat messages...
Sources: Apple approves a WeChat update for iOS, as revenue-sharing IAP talks continue with Tencent to block links to external payment services in mini games
- At stake are billions of dollars of fees from in-game sales — Apple and Tencent are negotiating future of WeChat mini-games
China's Ministry of State Security warns unnamed hackers are obtaining data on key issues, like food production and the weather, in a series of WeChat posts
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