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PUBG Mobile is testing a 6-hour per day limit in India

Mar22
by on March 22, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, India


Tencent’s popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is under fire in India after reportedly causing deaths in multiple instances. Some Indian cities have banned the game for a certain period, and several people are asking the government to outlaw it. In a corrective step, the makers seem to be testing a 6-hour per day restriction on mobile. As spotted by SportsKeeda, the app is sending a health reminder to players after 6-hours, on the mobile version. If the player logs in again they’re served with a message saying that “You’ve played the game for 6 hours today,” and asks them to…

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WeChat Pay to reportedly take on Google Pay and Paytm in India later this year

Mar22
by on March 22, 2019 at 11:11 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, India


Chinese tech giant Tencent is looking to enter India‘s payment market with a UPI-based (Unified Payments Interface) WeChat Pay app, according to Entrackr. The report notes Tencent execs met with the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) three weeks ago to discuss obtaining a license, with plans to launch the service in May or June. In the already saturated UPI payments market in India, WeChat Pay will compete against BHIM, PhonePe, Paytm, and Google Pay. According to NCPI’s website, monthly UPI transaction volumes consistently exceeded Rs. 1 trillion ($14.49 billion) in December, January, and February; WeChat will certainly be tempted to get a slice of…

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WeChat Pay to reportedly take on Google Pay and Paytm in India later this year

Mar22
by on March 22, 2019 at 11:11 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, India


Chinese tech giant Tencent is looking to enter India‘s payment market with a UPI-based (Unified Payments Interface) WeChat Pay app, according to Entrackr. The report notes Tencent execs met with the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) three weeks ago to discuss obtaining a license, with plans to launch the service in May or June. In the already saturated UPI payments market in India, WeChat Pay will compete against BHIM, PhonePe, Paytm, and Google Pay. According to NCPI’s website, monthly UPI transaction volumes consistently exceeded Rs. 1 trillion ($14.49 billion) in December, January, and February; WeChat will certainly be tempted to get a slice of…

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4,000 art auction houses are putting their sales records on the blockchain

Mar22
by on March 22, 2019 at 11:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A recent merger between a blockchain-based art registry and an international auction house sales database will see sales records from over 4,000 auction houses put on the blockchain. The art registry, Artory, has purchased Auction Club, a currently privatized database that contains information from over 4,000 international auction house sales, the Art Newspaper reports. The acquisition will merge the two companies immediately and will make Auction Club’s sales records from over 250 businesses in 40 countries publicly available for the first time. Records will begin to show up on the blockchain-based registry some time in May. The data held in…

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4,000 art auction houses are putting their sales records on the blockchain

Mar22
by on March 22, 2019 at 11:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A recent merger between a blockchain-based art registry and an international auction house sales database will see sales records from over 4,000 auction houses put on the blockchain. The art registry, Artory, has purchased Auction Club, a currently privatized database that contains information from over 4,000 international auction house sales, the Art Newspaper reports. The acquisition will merge the two companies immediately and will make Auction Club’s sales records from over 250 businesses in 40 countries publicly available for the first time. Records will begin to show up on the blockchain-based registry some time in May. The data held in…

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