DeekSeek could soon count two of China’s biggest tech companies among its investors. Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup as it begins its first round of fundraising, The Information reported Wednesday (April 22), citing four sources with knowledge of the discussions. One...
China’s Tencent has integrated the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent with its WeChat messaging platform. That’s according to a report Sunday (March 22) from Reuters, which calls the integration a move by the company to deepen its push into AI agents as that technology becomes a...
Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, the companies said in a Monday (Dec. 8) press release. Together,...
Apple reportedly reached a payments agreement with Chinese tech giant Tencent. The new arrangement will see Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases of mini games and apps from Tencent’s WeChat social media platform, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Nov. 13), citing unnamed sources....
May 19, 2025
A rally across all market indices, as China-focused tariffs were reduced, helped lift the CE 100 Index 5% higher in a week that saw almost all pillars advance, with the exception of the “Be Well” segment. In the Shop vertical, up 7%, Shopify surged 20.3% to take the lead among gainers for the week. Shopify’s […]
March 24, 2025
Over the past week, the CE 100 Index’s 2.1% rally outpaced its benchmarks, driven by gains across all pillars. Porch Group led advancing names in the Index, surging more than...
March 10, 2025
It was a rough week for the CE 100 Index, which lost 4.3% across five days of trading, outpacing the losses seen in all other benchmarks, from the NASDAQ to...
December 10, 2024
A wave of funding rounds over the past several months is giving challenger banks fresh financial firepower to position themselves as alternatives to traditional banks, mainstays of financial services that...
June 28, 2026
China’s Tencent is reportedly testing an app designed for overseas travelers to its country. TenPayGo was created to function as a one-stop digital services platform that includes mobile payments, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (June 28), citing Jiemian News. The app, now being tested, lets users spend directly at millions of merchants in China that accept […]
April 22, 2026
DeekSeek could soon count two of China’s biggest tech companies among its investors. Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup as it begins its first round...
March 22, 2026
China’s Tencent has integrated the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent with its WeChat messaging platform. That’s according to a report Sunday (March 22) from Reuters, which calls the integration a move...
December 08, 2025
Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global,...