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Xiaomi s Black Shark recently announced its partnership with Tencent Gaming. The brand that makes dedicated gaming smartphones announced that they will aim to provide its customers with more diverse gaming experience. We earlier saw Tencent join hands with Asus to help make the Asus ROG Phone II. Now, Xiaomi's dedicated gaming line will be
PUBG has been one of the more successful games in China, but it saw its end of the road in China a couple of months back when it launched Game for Peace. The company's popular Battel Royale game PUBG Mobile and its new version Game For Peace, have reportedly earned more than $1.5 billion. This
Just two months after announcing the mobile version of immensely popular game Call of Duty, Activision, the game publisher behind the game has finally released the game to some users as part of a closed beta test. Activision initially made the announcement for the launch of the game on both iOS as well as Android
WeChat messaging app is reportedly planning to launch its payment system in India as well. The Tencent-owned company is in the process of obtaining payments license from National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), and has already partnered with three Indian banks, reported Entrackr on Wednesday. According to the report (quoting two sources inside NPCI), Tencent
Music streaming app Gaana expects to have over 200 million subscribers in the next two years on its platform, a top company official has said. The Times Internet subsidiary has only 80 million monthly active users at present and streams over 2.2 billion songs every month. The music streaming market is estimated to have 150
Tencent Games and PUBG Mobile have announced a new esports event dubbed the 'PUBG Mobile Star Challenge' that is set to take place in Dubai. The event is being held from November 29 to December 1, 2018 at the Festival Arena in Dubai. In order to participate, PUBG Mobile players must have over 1,000 fans
Tencent has launched its own pair of smart glasses that look very much similar to Spectacles from Snap. Tencent is China's biggest internet company, and is primarily known for its WeChat communication app. The new glasses from Tencent called Weishi smart glasses have a camera at the front, so users can record themselves and the
Chinese investment holding conglomerate Tencent is planning to fund Bengaluru-based food ordering and delivery startup Swiggy. According to a report by The Economic Times, Tencent just joined a group of global investors that are looking to fund Swiggy. This comes after Swiggy has held discussions with a number of investors in its quest to raise
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PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, popularly known as PUBG, recently made its way to smartphones. The popular battle royale-style game is a graphic intensive application and works well only with premium flagship devices offering highest end of the mobile hardware. Now, the Chinese internet giant Tencent has officially launched a lighter version of the survival game. The game
PUBG developer Tencent has just announced the launch of a new version of PUBG Mobile known as PUBG Mobile Lite. As the name indicates, this is a lighter version of the game in place of a large package that requires flagship-like hardware to run. This announcement comes right after its rival Battle Royale title, Fortnite
E-commerce major Flipkart will shut down eBay.in next month and launch a new platform for refurbished goods as it attempts to tap into a large market segment that is predominantly unorganised. Last year, Flipkart had raised USD 1.4 billion from global technology majors eBay, Tencent and Microsoft. In exchange of an equity stake in Flipkart,
Google announced recently that it is investing about $550 million (approximately Rs 3,400 crore) in China s second largest e-commerce company JD.com. As part of the deal, Google will receive 27 million newly issued JD.com Class A ordinary shares in return. That gives it less than 1 percent stake in the company. The partnership also
The term Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) first came into existence with the inception and recognition of the Defence of the Ancients mod of Blizzard s World of Warcraft: Frozen Throne. That was just a mod of a game that gained such popularity that a cult formed around it and it was eventually picked up
China-based Tencent, the owner of WeChat and PUBG Corp on Thursday jointly announced the mobile version of the latter's immensely-popular "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" (PUBG) game has surpassed 10 million daily active users (DAUs) globally. Notably, Tencent is the parent company of PUBG as well. The mobile version of the game was released on Apple App Store
Playerunknown s Battlegrounds broke into the gaming scene last year and has since become a raging success. It recently launched its mobile version called PUBG Mobile on both Android and iOS a couple of days ahead of its biggest competitor Fortnite. And now, despite stiff competition from Fortnite that has record number of players on
PUBG Mobile is gearing up for Season 2 and developers Tencent Games have announced that the servers will be offline for quite a while. The servers are currently down and are expected to be down for a total of eight hours before they are back up again. When the servers will come back live, the
In case you noticed, there were a lot of people who were using emulators for playing the mobile version of PUBG, so that they could get an upper hand with the mouse and keyboard controls. And now it seems developers Tencent wants a piece of that pie and edge out the competition by introducing an
US-based eBay today said it plans to sell its stake in Flipkart for about USD 1.1 billion, and will relaunch eBay India focusing initially on cross border trade opportunity. The statement by eBay came after Walmart Inc announced that it is buying 77 per cent stake in Flipkart for about USD 16 billion, and also
North Korea might be a small, secretive country that only ever makes the news for instigating and threatening war against other countries. But the nation's secluded nature doesn't mean it's completely off the grid. North Koreans do have access to the internet, but with a majority of the country living under the massive control and