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Chinese Internet Company

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tencent Holdings Limited ???????? Tencent Logo.svg Type Public Traded as SEHK: 700 Industry Internet Founded 1998 Founder(s) Ma Huateng Zhang Zhidong Headquarters Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Area served China Key people Ma Huateng (Chairman & CEO) Products Social networks, mass media, web portals, e-commerce, web browser, Antivirus softwareand multiplayer online games Services Online services Revenue Increase CN? 43.9 billion (2012)[1] Operating income Increase CN? 15.1 billion (2012)[1] Net income Increase CN? 12.8 billion (2012)[1] Total assets Increase CN? 75.3 billion (2012)[1] Total equity Increase CN? 42.1 billion (2012)[1] Owner(s) Naspers (35%) Employees 24,160 (May 2013)[2] Website tencent.com This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters. Tencent Holdings Limited (Chinese: ?????????SEHK: 700) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services, and operate online advertising services in China.[3] Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Tencent's diverse services include social networks, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games.[4] Its offerings include the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ[5][6] and one of the largest web portals in China, QQ.com.[7] Mobile chat service WeChat has helped bolster Tencent's continued expansion into smartphone services. It is the fourth-largest Internet company in the world after Google, Amazon, and Ebay, as of August 2012.[8] In 2012, Tencent's revenue outstripped Facebook's by over $2 billion.[9][10][11] In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to US$101 billion, nine years after going public.[12][13]