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 [...]

News Roundup: Douban, Qzone, iNeZha and Tianji

The change of China’s foreign investment rules to influence China’s Internet industry: Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced the issuance of a revised Catalog for the Guidance of Foreign Invested Enterprises (Revised 2007). According to the new catalog, the news website, online video and audio service, the operation of Internet cafe and [...]

QQGames Entered US Market

Tencent, who operates the most popular IM client QQ in China, has partnered with AOL, to provide a casual game plugin for AIM (tip by TagEdge). The QQGames plugin enables AIM users to play online casual games with their buddies, similar to MSN Live Messenger’s games.
According to a post in QQGames’ bbs, the plugin, which [...]

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