Tencent

The firm counted 19.2 million paying customers at the end of 2020.

Investment apps like Ajaib and Pluang have already collected tens of millions of venture funds this year.

Employment is increasingly shifting from traditional industries like manufacturing to the online services sector.

App-based keyboards can have data trackers built in. Tencent is moving to plug the leak.

The walls of China’s tech gardens are slowly being torn down.

Tencent’s investment arm has been the most active VC in China in the first quarter.

Tencent abandoned plans to acquire iQiyi due to tightened anti-monopoly regulations.

Tencent outspent its Chinese peers on strategic investments last year, now with over 1,200 portfolios under its wings.