And although Naspers does not intend to make any investments in Western countries, Tencent may follow DST in doing so.

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Naspers, which may be one of the most succesful corporate media investors in history, is still under appreciated in the United States.

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In 2004 she was hired by the South African media conglomerate Naspers to build ChinaPortal, an online video site catering to Chinese citizens living abroad.

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Therefore, he decided to create one with partner Alejandro Estrada, who recently sold DineroMail, a Latin American version of Paypal, to South African media conglomerate Naspers.

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In addition, foreign investors have large stakes in several of the large Chinese Internet firms, including Alibaba Group (Yahoo and Softbank together own a majority) and Tencent (South African media firm Naspers owns 35%).

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The new partnership with DST could help bring Tencent into the first tier of global digital media investing, and the huge pools of capital DST, Tencent and Naspers control should make entrepreneurs the world over drool.

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