Tag Archives: tencent

Wed 28th October 2015
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Twitter and opposition Tencent competence have to quarrel over "Moments" - Tencent files trademark applications, presumably in response to Twitter launching new “Moments” feature. On October 6, Twitter launched “Moments” in an effort to attract more users to trending topics. It’s a pretty cool feature, but Twitter might run up against Chinese social networking giant Tencent over the name. Tencent has a number of services including microblogging. On October 16, Tencent filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Moments”. ... read more ...
Tue 17th September 2013
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Tencent is latest to plea ICANN on new TLD objections - Company lost legal rights objections for weibo domain names. Chinese internet giant Tencent is the latest company to ask ICANN to reconsider a new top level domain objection decision. The company is challenging the legal rights objections brought by rival Sina against its applications for .微博 and .weibo. Sina was the only other applicant for these domain names. By winning the objections, it no longer faces other applicants and will likely obtain the top level ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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Internet Giant TenCent bumbles domain dispute - Company drops ball in UDRP submission. It’s possible you’ve never heard of TenCent. I hadn’t heard of it until reading The Economist’s recent spread on the internet in China. But it’s big in China. Huge. With a market cap of $60 billion (U.S.), it’s right up there with Facebook in terms of valuation. Yet TenCent Holdings failed to win the domain name TenCentGames.com in a UDRP, despite the domain holder not responding to the complaint. TenCent successfully ... read more ...