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SendBird’s messaging platform gets new moderation tools, full-text search and more
SendBird is announcing a major update to its chat API for web and mobile today. With this, SendBird is adding…
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Amid coronavirus, tech firms offer ways to maintain China’s lifeblood
Amid coronavirus, tech firms offer ways to maintain China’s lifeblood Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of…
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WeChat restricts controversial video face-swapping app Zao, citing “security risks”
Zao went viral in China this weekend for its realistic face-swapping videos, but after controversy about its user policy, WeChat…
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Tencent brings cloud service to Japan in global push
The world’s largest video game publisher is looking outside its home country for growth. Tencent, the Chinese internet behemoth that…
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WeChat is quietly ranking user behavior to play catch-up with Alibaba
Over one billion people leave behind trails of information on WeChat every day as they use the messenger to chat,…
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Winter is ending: China to restart game approvals
As 2018 draws to a close, China’s gaming industry — which has been beaten by a nine-month-long freeze in license…
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Finance
How a Chinese anti-virus software maker builds a fintech firm to wrestle with giants
360 Finance, an online consumer loan platform that spun off from China’s anti-virus service giant 360 Group, has joined a…
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Finance
WeChat e-wallet teams up with Line to target Japan’s 7M Chinese tourists
China’s biggest chat app WeChat is set to make its payments service more ubiquitous in Japan, a popular outbound desitnation…
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