3 Reasons Why Tencent’s Qzone, the Largest Social Network in China, is a Failure

（This is a guest post by Kai Lukoff. Kai Lukoff is an analyst at BloggerInsight and an editor on China Social Games. Follow Kai on Twitter @klukoff. You can find more information on China Social Game at the end of this post. )

Qzone, “the largest social network in China,” and Tencent’s other SNS (QQ Campus [...]

Qzone Recorded Over 200 Million Monthly Users

QQ, the most popular IM tools and social networking platform in China, announced in last week that its Qzone service recorded over 200 million monthly users in January 2009, doubled in less than one year. In March 2008, QQ reported that its Qzone reached over 100 million users.
Among these 200 million users, about 150 [...]

Hello, I’m QQ: QQ Speaks English Now

When we are talking about China’s Internet companies, we will definitely talk Tencent, whose IM software QQ is the most popular IM software in China. At the time I’m writing this post, QQ has over 45m concurrent users online. Based on its QQ software, Tencent generated revenue of USD297 million in the quarter ended on [...]

Apply For Web Access of QQ

On the first day of the new year, Tencent relaunched its web-based QQ service. Now it’s called My QQ.
It’s linked from it’s official QQ website. From its appearance it’s not just a web version of the product, but a user login of the whole site. Maybe a web-based social network is coming.
Tencent started testing [...]

Pony Ma Downplays Facebook Developer Platform

In this two months, we heard a lot of open platform news in China. Actually there are two big Internet companies we all expect them to be more open, they are Baidu and Tencent.
In an interview with journalist from 21st Century Business Herald on this Feb, Pony Ma, founder and CEO of Tencent, talked [...]

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