Tencent is well known in China for its instant messenger program QQ, with more than 600 million accounts.
Tencent QQ is already a wildly popular instant messaging platform in China, with over 700 million active users.
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Some people have multiple microblog accounts: Tencent has its own QQ-branded Weibo service.
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They can vote on Twitter and Facebook, and on the Chinese social media websites Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ.
Samsung's own messaging service, ChatON will also arrive (once again) preinstalled, alongside local fare like Sina Weibo and QQ.
Tencent is a minority investor in VinaGame and has struck a deal to bring its QQ chat and casual games to VinaGame.
In 2003 its QQ minicar debuted six months before a nearly identical car built by General Motors in Korea, the Chevrolet Spark.
That's thanks to products such as its QQ instant messaging service with over 700 million users, which gives it huge marketing clout.
Its instant messaging service, Tencent QQ, has more than 600 million users.
Although Ouyang Yun, Gaopeng COO, said QQ Tuan and Gaopeng have complimentary business models, the two companies look more like competitors than partners.
Doyle says the game was also built to be able to connect with other social networks, as well, like MySpace or QQ in China.
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Instead, they go to their Internet cafes, or, they increasingly access the Internet, chat with their friends on QQ, or play games right from home.
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He also found time to pay a call on Tencent, the Shenzhen-based Internet company that boasts over 700 million users of its QQ social-media platforms.
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One blogger commented on QQ Weibo, another leading operator, that censors had been very effective, making some of the proxy software he usually used unstable now.
While Match.com and eHarmony are two of the most popular dating sites in the U.S., China's QQ.com Love is the No. 1 ranked dating site in Asia.
Some young Chinese have registered Live Messenger for the first time as an alternative to logging on to QQ and finding themselves without anyone to talk to.
The Chinese rely on instant messaging via QQ and Weibo.
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Tencent has made inroads mostly in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America with its mobile QQ Browser, counting India and Indonesia as its biggest markets outside China.
But China's QQ.com Love ranks highest in Asia, Meetic and be2 are No. 1 and 2 in Europe and Amigos.com is second only to MSN in Latin America, according to comScore.
According to Tencent, whose services include instant messaging service QQ, microblogging site Tencent Weibo - which is similar to Twitter - and online games, WeChat has close to 300 million users.
In a survey currently running on the Chinese Internet portal QQ.com, 988, 375 users (79%) say Huang Guangyu should retain control of the company he built from scratch over two decades.
Social media (in China, BBSes, QQ, Sina Weibo and other mobile texting services) provide reinforcement, acting as word-of-mouth before the final purchase decision is made, which may be made online or offline.
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There are now domestic Chinese equivalents of all these sites Baidu for Google, Taobao for eBay, Renren for Facebook, QQ for instant messaging, games and social networking and they are doing well (see chart).
He notes that WeChat is surpassing QQ, its wildly popular instant messaging service in China, in its adoption rate internationally partly because the name of the service was changed from Weixin or micro message to the easily pronounceable WeChat.
At that time, the government swooped in with relevant rules, essentially telling companies like the social networking and gaming portal Tencent that customer use of QQ coins, or similar virtual currencies, to facilitate certain transactions was starting to look a lot like traditional banking activities.
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