On October 8, Tencent announced that the native version of WeChat Hongmeng officially opened to invite internal testing. Currently, over 20 products such as WeChat, QQ, Tencent Conference, and Enterprise WeChat are constantly adapting to HarmonyOS NEXT, and will randomly push internal testing invitations to some users.。It is reported that this "early adopter" WeChat has supported some basic functions including social communication, audio and video calls, circle of friends, WeChat payment of two-dimensional code collection and payment, etc.。Previously, Yu Chengdong had said that Hongmeng is a new life, with a year's time through the ecological development of foreign operating systems for more than a decade.。

On September 4, Taobao released the latest announcement that in order to enhance the consumer shopping experience, Taobao plans to add WeChat payment capabilities。Taobao opened the WeChat payment channel, Ali and Tencent have already seen the first signs, in February this year Taobao has gradually opened the WeChat payment channel to some users, and obtained positive feedback。Industry experts expect the move to be a new cooperative exploration of payment integration in the Internet e-commerce industry, or will trigger positive new growth in the e-commerce economy.。

WeChat said, at present and Taobao platform merchant function adaptation is opening, the specific on-line time please pay attention to Taobao platform announcement.

Regarding the recent rumors that "iPhone 16 may not support WeChat", Apple and Tencent have both refuted the rumors, saying that the incident is not true.

September 2, “Apple WeChat” on the hot search. There is news that WeChat may not support iPhone 16, and remind users must not update the system. Apple China technical adviser said, third-party comments on the ios system or Apple devices can no longer use WeChat, including WeChat subsequent to the Apple App Store to continue to shelves and download, the need for Apple and Tencent to communicate with each other and to explore to determine the situation after. He said that Apple is currently actively communicating with Tencent to confirm whether Tencent will continue to provide software downloads to the Apple App Store.

Tencent's second quarter 2024 performance data disclosure proves the advantages of its platform and content combination strategy.

Tencent's Dungeons & Dragons: Origins operations team released an announcement that the game will no longer be available on some Android platform app stores.

According to the Sensor Tower store intelligence platform, in May 2024, a total of 40 Chinese manufacturers were included in the top 100 global mobile game publishers, with a total revenue of 2.11 billion US dollars, accounting for 39.7% of the global top 100 mobile game publisher revenue for this period.

On May 30th, Tencent announced a comprehensive upgrade of its Hunyuan LLM and launched a LLM app called Tencent Yuanbao.

Zhang Yunfan stated that the gaming business has entered its "second phase." In this phase, ByteDance Games will adopt a long-term approach, focusing more patiently on product development and operations.

In the first quarter, Tencent's revenue reached RMB 159.501 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6%. After adjustment, the net profit was RMB 50.265 billion, a year-on-year increase of 54%, and the gross profit margin increased from 45% in the same period last year to 53%.

For the whole year, Tencent generated 6,090 revenue.1.5 billion yuan, up 10% year-on-year。Adjusted net profit was 1,576.8.8 billion yuan, up 36% year-on-year。The company also plans to at least double the size of its share buybacks, from HK $49 billion in 2023 to over HK $100 billion in 2024.。

In November 2023, ByteDance announced a massive business contraction in its gaming business.。In addition to the retention of some of the UGC and AIGC projects under development, games that are already online and performing well will be sought for sale.。

Ma Huateng said that the game is Tencent's trump card business, the game is actually the company's biggest hope for internationalization。

Tencent executives received a written document from Meta last month, according to people familiar with the matter.。Meta said it would suspend its current cooperation with Tencent on this generation of VR hardware。

Tencent's major shareholders continue to reduce their holdings! Since April, it has cashed out $5 billion, and its investment income has exceeded 7,000 times in 20 years, making it one of the most profitable deals in the history of venture capital!

On September 7, at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference, Tencent's self-developed universal big language model, the hybrid model, was officially unveiled.。

Reported that in order to cope with the artificial intelligence competition, a number of Chinese Internet giants are scrambling to order chips from the global chip giant Nvidia。These Internet companies have booked nearly $5 billion worth of chip orders this year and next.。