The Next Web signs exclusive deal with Tencent to republish articles in Chinese

Tencent has signed a deal with western tech blog The Next Web to be the latter’s exclusive content partner for Greater China. The announcement published today says Tencent has exclusive rights to translate The Next Web’s content into Chinese.

The new site for all translated content can be found here, under the umbrella of Tencent’s existing QQ Tech website.

No financial dealings were discussed in the announcement. In February, Tencent signed a similar deal with US-based Business Insider (update: corrected the date in this sentence).

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The partnership shows a step in the right direction away from the status quo of directly translating content without permission or attribution of the original source. Tech in Asia has seen its own fair share of copy-paste ripoffs on Chinese websites in the past, and tech news websites are far from the only online media vulnerable to infringement without ramifications.