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The China Securities Regulatory Commission imposes fines of nearly US$1 billion and $415 million on technology companies Ant Group and Tencent, respectively, for violating financial regulations and anti-money laundering obligations.
2023-07-7

Microsoft announces that it will acquire gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. If the acquisition is successful, Activision Blizzard will become part of Xbox Game Studios, which will become the world's third-largest gaming company behind Tencent and Sony Interactive Entertainment.
2022-01-18

Chinese prosecutors file a lawsuit against the tech conglomerate Tencent, alleging that the company's "youth mode" for the WeChat application violates laws protecting minors. Authorities did not specify as to which laws the application violates.
2021-08-8

India bans 118 apps linked to Chinese companies including popular Tencent-backed video game "PUBG Mobile", stating they are "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India".
2020-09-2

Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, U.S. President Donald Trump issues several executive orders barring firms and American citizens from trading and doing financial transactions with Chinese technology companies ByteDance and Tencent, effectively banning their respective apps TikTok and WeChat within the United States. The orders are set to go into effect in 45 days.
2020-08-6

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India bans 47 Chinese-origin apps on the grounds that these apps were clones of banned apps made by Chinese companies to circumvent bans. The ban comes less than a month after 59 apps were banned in June, including TikTok and Helo, as the government deemed them a "threat to national security". India also begins investigating over 250 Chinese apps over user privacy violations including popular Tencent-backed gaming app "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds". The bans comes in the wake of a movement to boycott Chinese products in India following the 2020 China-India skirmishes.
2020-07-27

In its annual report, Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV warns consumers that personal data they provide to Chinese payment companies or other tech firms, such as Tencent, Alibaba and others, could end up in the hands of China's government.
2020-07-9

Tencent, along with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited and the Qatar Investment Authority, purchase a 10% stake in the Universal Music Group. The former purchased it to build up its own music streaming service.
2019-12-31

South Korea's Hyundai Motor reaches an agreement with Tencent to partner on research and development of self-driving cars. Hyundai plans to roll such cars out commercially by 2030.
2019-04-6

Jia Jia, a columnist for China's Tencent media company is reported missing after not being heard from since Tuesday, when he was on his way to Hong Kong. He was last heard from when he tried to warn a friend about publishing an anonymous letter calling for China's paramount leader Xi Jinping's resignation.
2016-03-18