"We have worked closely with Tencent to create a game with broad appeal for the Chinese market, " he added.
Steady gaming revenue has allowed Tencent to invest in areas where it sees long-term potential without worrying too much about short-term profits.
When upstart smartphone company Xiaomi launched a mobile-chat service in 2010, Chief Executive Lei Jun told a conference in May, it expected Tencent to take a while to launch a rival service.
Social gaming firm Zynga - which bought a Beijing studio in 2010 - has linked up with Tencent to launch a beta version of Zynga City, a local adaption of its Cityville title.
And the price of gold, or the politics in Washington, have no impact on whether or not Shanghai locals are going to buy smartphones and go to Baidu to search, and Sina and Tencent sites to maintain relationships with friends.
Not only relying on the virtual economy on WeChat (i.e. mobile gaming, virtual goods), Tencent plans to creatively leverage the commercial upside of online to offline space.
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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 the case of Tencent, to which the market has gifted an awesome market cap, buying into an immediate, leading position for a tiny percentage of that market cap may make more sense than trying to build it themselves.
But Tom Rafferty of the Economist Intelligence Unit told the BBC the issue was unlikely to be just "a passing glitch", and said that such practices could pose technical and political challenges to Tencent because international users were accustomed to sharing information freely.
Sina, for example, is emerging as a serious competitor to Tencent and Baidu in China.
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The investment in DST may also lead to Tencent co-investing with DST in deals in the US and around the world.
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Many foreigners who were parachuted into the company at its launch by Groupon (most of whom were from Germany) are no longer with the company after a lot of friction with the JV partners from Tencent about how to make the venture work in China.
Microblogging tools from Sina and Tencent should be used to identify where there are problems to be corrected.
Tencent has been slow to tap it for revenues, preferring to cross-subsidise from games and other revenue sources.
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The field is increasingly crowded, with gaming firms like Perfect World and Internet conglomerates like Tencent going head-to-head.
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The company is likely to seek further developments in game franchises across multiple platforms, an area that Tencent has scarcely touched, according to the paper.
Developer Activision has teamed up with Chinese internet service provider Tencent on the free-to-play title.
Tencent Weibo is very similar to Sina Weibo in terms of functionality and demographics, and has about 200-250 million users.
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In a series of posts since Saturday to his account on Tencent Holding Ltd.
Tencent is speeding up its effort to introduce the Chinese company's WeChat mobile app to developed countries, including the U.S., CEO Pony Ma said.
Lee explains that the two Weibo platforms, Sina and Tencent, compete with each other to achieve greater degrees of transparency, which is a relative novelty in China.
Tencent is spending a lot now to get market share.
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When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.
An early backer of Chinese internet hot shots Baidu and Tencent, it will also continue to be an active investor in China, where it has 40 investments, almost all of which has an SM component. (In the U.S. it also continues to look at startups in cloud computing, storage and virtualization).
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It's being geared to become Vietnam's Tencent or Shanda, two runaway success stories from China's early start-ups.
Sina introduced the microblogging weibo to its online services in 2009 to try to catch up with rival Tencent.
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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The other leading microblog, called Tencent Weibo, now also requires new users to register with their real name.
Market leaders such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (the infamous BAT) are racing to assemble all-in-one popular Web services in one sandbox.
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