Tencent

Founded in November, 1998, Tencent（Chinese: 腾讯）has grown into one of China's largest and most used Internet service portals. On June 16, 2004, Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK 700) went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Tencent’s leading Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai and Tenpay – have brought together China's largest Internet community, to meet the various needs of users including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce and others. As of December 31, 2010, there were 647.6 million active Tencent QQ IM user accounts, making Tencent QQ the world's largest online community. The number of simultaneously online QQ accounts has sometimes exceeded 100 million.

As one of the four online platforms of Tencent, Tencent Games is a world-class online game developer and operator, and is recognized as the largest online game community in China.

It offers a number of online, multiplayer games through its game portal QQ Games, including Dungeon & Fighter, a side-scrolling online fighting game; QQ Fantasy, a 2D online game that incorporates elements from Chinese mythology; QQ Three Kingdoms, an online casual role playing game set during the historical three kingdoms period; QQ Huaxia, an online RPG; QQ Dancer, an online musical dancing game that offers QQ IM interactivity; QQ Nanaimo, an online game set on a desert island where players maintain houses and pets; QQ Speed, a casual online racing game; QQ PET, a QQ IM-based desktop virtual pet game and two online first-person shooters, Cross Fire and AVA.

As of November 2010, the company was the third largest Internet company in the world behind Google and Amazon with a market capitalization of US$38 billion.

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