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- It’s behind the nation’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, with over 1.2 billion monthly active users. It’s the behemoth that created QQ.com, one of the country’s largest web portals and the world’s fourth most visited website. And with Tencent Music, it also owns the majority of China’s music services, with 841 million active users.
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Aug 7, 2020 · Based in Shenzhen and founded in 1998, the Chinese company Tencent enjoys huge popularity - and profits - in China.
- How It Got Started
- It Owns Social (and More) in China
- Gaming and Us Expansion
- How Tencent Got So Big
- Where Things Are Going
Founded in 1998, Tencent got its start with its OICQ messenger, which was later renamed to QQ due to rumors of possible legal action from fellow chat app dev ICQ(remember freaking ICQ?). From there, despite rapid growth of QQ, Tencent remained unprofitable for the next three years. During the mid 2000s, Tencent started to branch out into other area...
At home in China, Tencent is responsible for some of the biggest social media and messaging apps including QQ, WeChat, and Qzone. Tencent even has its own digital assistant, named Xiaowei, which can answer questions about the weather or traffic just like Alexa or Facebook’s M. Really, the number of Tencent apps and web services in China is seemingl...
Here in the states, you’re more likely to use one of Tencent’s products while playing games. It owns companies like Riot Games (maker of League of Legends), Supercell (maker of Clash of Clans), and has heavy investments into major companies such as Epic Games (maker of Gears of War) and Activision Blizzard (maker of Overwatch and Destiny). More rec...
Tencent has a huge number of users—WeChat hit 938 million monthly users back in May—and the Chinese government has played a huge role in Tencent’s growth. Not only are companies like Google and Facebook banned, e-commerce was also a big part of the Communist Party’s five-year plan spanning from 2011 to 2015. Combine that with a huge population that...
Over the past year, Tencent has seen its stock price double from 200 to 400 Hong Kong dollars, which now has people projecting that the company could challenge Google, Facebook, and Alibaba for online ad sales, something that currently only generates 17 percent of Tencent’s revenue, as opposed to 97 percent for Facebook. This could be the start of ...
Chinese tech giant Tencent has reported a 26% surge in quarterly sales, pushed higher by its online gaming business. Tencent’s Honor of Kings remained a top-ranked game in China, while PUBG...
Mar 25, 2021 · Chinese tech giant Tencent has reported a 26% surge in quarterly sales, pushed higher by its online gaming business. Tencent’s Honor of Kings remained a top-ranked game in China, while PUBG...
In 2014, Tencent established exclusive in-China distribution agreements with several large music producers, including Sony, Warner Music Group and YG Entertainment [234] and in 2017 it signed a deal with Universal Music Group to stream its music in China.
Aug 7, 2020 · Based in Shenzhen and founded in 1998, the Chinese company Tencent enjoys huge popularity - and profits - in China. Its cute penguin symbol is as familiar to Chinese children as the McDonalds...
Dec 1, 2022 · Tencent has always been looking beyond the borders of its home market in China when it comes to growing its games empire, but the last two years have seen those plans advance significantly.
