Also, with Beijing strictly restricting game approvals at home and still suspending approvals for games of foreign IPs, Tencent is forced to move towards gaining control of foreign game companies and their IPs, said the four sources.

The TikToker has made multiple dishes - including two favorites: 'spritz cookies' and fudge -  and the baker even travels across the country to find recipes, going from state to state to recreate the best cemetery dessert. 

That tech will also be made available to Google's industry partners. Sony gave its own streaming service a headstart in 2015 by buying the patents of OnLive -- an early game streaming service -- shortly before the once-promising startup shut down.

Elsewhere, Tencent also seeks to increase its investment in and make deeper forays into Southeast Asia as it sees the region - home to 650 million people - as having potential to replicate the success of China's internet boom, said two of the sources.

A 2020 report by Indian trade group FICCI and consulting firm EY stated that of 65 billion Indian rupees ($817 million) garnered by online gaming industry the previous year, transaction-based gaming, including real-money, contributed 71%, or 46 billion rupees.

One, seemingly light-hearted, suggestion was made by Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young, who suggested that Green is trying to be traded to the Los Angeles Lakers or Clippers, although it seems unlikely that Golden State would trade him within their own division

However, it is now aggressively seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets, notably in gaming assets in Europe, the four people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Tencent's pursuit of bigger stakes in its existing gaming portfolio or new targets would give the company a bigger say in such firms' businesses and also help it secure the intellectual property rights of popular games, said the four sources.

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One, seemingly light-hearted, suggestion was made by Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young, who suggested that Green is trying to be traded to the Los Angeles Lakers or Clippers, although it seems unlikely that Golden State would trade him within their own division.   

Haaland has made a staggering start at the Etihad Stadium, scoring 14 times in just eight league matches since arriving in the summer to leave himself seven goals clear of his nearest challenger - Harry Kane - in the race for pkv Poker the Premier League's Golden Boot.

In Europe, except for its purchase of majority stake in "Clash of Clans" mobile game maker Supercell for $8.6 billion in 2016, Tencent has for years mostly cut minority deals including its purchase of 9% of British gaming firm Frontier Developments.

From 2015 to 2020, the owner of China's number one messaging app WeChat 150 investments at home totalling $75 billion, compared to 102 deals worth $33 billion in overseas markets, according to Refinitiv data.

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Players and coaches have had run-ins with Green, including Kerr (right).  During a 2019 game, Kerr appeared to say 'I'm so f***ing tired of Dramond's s***,' to an assistant. Given the chance to clarify what he had said, Kerr downplayed the incident with a joke. 'No, the lip-readers were wrong,' he told reporters. 'What I said was, ''I beg to differ with Draymond's approach tonight.'' Those were my exact words. I don't know how somebody misconstrued that'

Tencent's new strategy indicates how China's tech titans are looking to emerge from the regulatory shadows after two years of crackdown and uncertainty that weighed on their sales at home and triggered a massive selloff in their stocks.

Cloud gaming service Google Stadia will shut down on Jan. 18, the search giant said in blog post Thursday. Google will refund all Stadia hardware purchased through its Google Store, along with all games and add-on content purchased from its Stadia store.

Apart from the core gaming sector, Tencent is also looking to snap up global assets, in particular in Europe, related to the so-called metaverse, said one of the sources and another source with direct knowledge of the matter.

According to Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski, the Warriors are, 'taking "every legal course of action" to discover how video of (Green) punching (Poole) during a scuffle at practice on Wednesday was made public.'

Green certainly has a reputation as a puncher, and has been caught swinging at opponents' genitals on several occasions, including once in the 2016 NBA Finals when he punched LeBron James' groin. Green was ultimately suspended for the following game.