Tencent raised $6 billion in May last year and issued 40-year debt for the first time
Beijing-headquartered Waterdrop distributes insurance policies online and provides illness crowd-funding
The move highlights Chinese regulators are still looking to approve merger and acquisition deals in the tech sector, but now with strict conditions
The $10 billion would make Timi the world's largest developer, the sources say, which many industry watchers had suspected to be the case
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has reported a 28 per cent year-on-year growth in revenue for 2020, raking in around 482 billion yuan (about $73.9 billion)
Regulators are said to be considering forcing the firm to overhaul its promising fintech division in a similar fashion to Jack Ma's Ant Group Co
Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings Ltd on Wednesday reported a forecast-beating 175% rise in quarterly profit
Pony Ma, the reticent founder of Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media and video games company, met with China's antitrust watchdog officials this month to discuss compliance at his group
Tencent is having to offer concessions in a plan to merge the country's top two videogame live-streaming sites in order to resolve antitrust concerns, people with knowledge of the matters said
Chinese regulators summoned 11 domestic technology companies including Alibaba Group, Tencent and ByteDance for talks on use of 'deepfake' on their platforms, stepping up scrutiny of the sector
Like Ant, it will probably be required to establish a financial holdco
Antitrust regulator fines twelve companies under anti-monopoly law
January 2021 recorded three large deals worth $680 mn compared to five large deals worth $1.4 bn in January 2019 and 12 large deals worth $6 bn in December 2020
The move comes amid Beijing's unprecedented crackdown on its home-grown internet platforms
Tencent's shares fell 1.4% in early trade in Hong Kong on Thursday, while the broader market slipped 0.3%
To buttress its core gaming division, the Shenzhen-based company has also stepped up acquisitions and the development of casual games
Tencent, China's biggest social media and video games company, said in a social media post that it had reported 40 employees to authorities since it started an anti-graft campaign in fourth quarter
Ma, lionised at home for creating some of his country's largest corporations, didn't make the cut in a Shanghai Securities News front-page commentary lauding the leading lights of technology
China proposed measures to curb market concentration in its online payment market, potentially dealing another blow to financial technology giant Ant Group Co. and its biggest rival Tencent Holdings
The Trump administration is considering adding Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings to a blacklist of Chinese companies that are allegedly owned or controlled by the Chinese military