TENCENT

Group 7
INTRODUCTION
1. Tencent Holdings Ltd., also known as Tencent, is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate
holding company.
2. Its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in
entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology. Its twin-skyscraper headquarters, Tencent
Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) are based in the Nanshan District of
Shenzhen.
3. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable
companies. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its
services include social network, music, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games, internet services,
payment systems, smartphones, and multiplayer online games.
4. Its services include social network, music, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games, internet
services, payment systems, smartphones, and multiplayer online games. Offerings in China include
the instant messengers Tencent QQ and WeChat, and one of the largest web portals, QQ.com. It also
owns the majority of China's music services (Tencent Music), with more than 700 million active
users and 120 million paying subscribers.
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Tencent has a wide range of interests, but
its messaging services are probably its
most well-known. It is often equated to WhatsApp, as it is
Weixin, the Chinese equivalent of commonly used widely for texting, like
WeChat, has more than a billion users in the app.
China and around the world.

Since many US messaging As a separate operating system, it's

apps and social media sites are used to read news, pay bills, order
banned by the Chinese meals and transport, and manage
government you can't small enterprises, just as you might
officially Facebook message a use Google's Android or Apple's iOS.
friend in Beijing.
 GAMING
Tencent is the number one leading
publisher of video games in the world.
Two of the most popular Battle Royale-
style games — Fortnite and
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds PubG —
are owned by the company.
Riot Games, the studio behind
League of Legends, is also
owned by the company.
Although it failed to get PlayerUnknown's
Battlegrounds (PubG) approved for Chinese
distribution, it holds a 40 percent ownership
in Fortnite studio, Epic Games and the
license to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
(PubG).
Sixteen companies outside of China,
including Ubisoft and Discord, were
listed in a PC Gamer article
published in October 2019 that
Tencent had publicly invested in.
 MUSIC & FILM
In recent months, Tencent has acquired a
10% share in Universal Music. Major
artists such as Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift,
Drake, and Kendrick Lamar are
represented by the label.
In 2017, it acquired a 7.5
percent stake in streaming
behemoth Spotify as part of a
share swap deal.
The company is heavily featured in western
music and cinema. It's worth noting that
Tencent already has a music subsidiary -
Tencent Music Entertainment (TME).
Numerous Hollywood movies have
been produced by Tencent Pictures,
such as Terminator: Dark Fate
(2019), Wonder Woman (2017), and
Top Gun: Maverick (previously due
out in 2021).
SHAREHOLDING

Naspers-28.9% non
voting power
Naspers Limited is a South African
multinational holwith interests in
publishing, online retail and venture
capital investing in the consumer
internet sector.
Pony Ma -8.58%
Tencent CEO

Tony Zhang - 3.5%

Tencent Co Founder
 GROWTH
STRATEGIES
● Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented
operating strategies. Presently, Tencent is providing value-added
Internet, mobile and telecom services and online advertising.
● Tencent remains committed to enhancing its development and
innovation capabilities while strengthening its nationwide
branding for its long term development. More than 60% of
Tencent employees are R&D staff. Tencent has obtained patents
relating to the technologies in various areas: instant messaging,
e-commerce, online payment services, search engine,
information security, gaming, and many more.
● Tencent invested more than RMB 100 million in setting up the
Tencent Research Institute, China’s first Internet research
institute, with campuses in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
 GROWTH
The company surpassed a market
value of US$500 billion in 2018,
becoming the first Asian
technology company to cross this
valuation mark.
Tencent has been credited as
one of the world's most
innovative companies by the
Boston Consulting Group and
Fast Company.

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It has since then emerged as It has stakes in over 600 companies,
the most valuable publicly and began focusing on tech start-ups
traded company in China, and in Asia in 2017. TechCrunch
among the world's top characterized Tencent's investment
technology companies by strategy as letting its portfolio
market value. startups operate autonomously.
ACQUISITIONS

● Tencent has made 21 acquisitions and 477

investments.
● The company has spent over $ 21.88B for the
acquisitions.
● Tencent has invested in multiple sectors such as
Mobile Gaming, Internet First Media, PC & Console
Gaming and more.
● Leyou,Bitauto,Cloudary, Riot games, Funcom,
Comsenz, VUE, Linktech Navi, Zam, Sharkmob, 10
Chambers Collective, Huya, Iflix, Yixin group,
Sanook, Baimin, Sogou are some of the acquisitions.
KEY ACQUISITIONS

DATE AMOUNT

SUPERCELL June 2016 $ 10.20 billion

AMER SPORTS Dec 2018 $ 6.40 billion

CHINA MUSIC July 2016 $ 2.70 billion

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 RECENT INVESTMENTS
Tencent created an alliance to its
own AI self-driving program,
similar to Baidu's Apollo
Project, recruiting numerous
industry players in the
automotive industry. May
2016-
2017
2017

August Tencent entered an agreement with the

2016
2017 Wuhu City Council to build the world's first
eSports town in the city, which comprises an
eSports theme park, eSports university, a
cultural and creative park, an animation
industrial park, creative block, tech
entrepreneurial community and Tencent
Cloud's data center.
Alongwith Foxconn and luxury-car
dealer Harmony New Energy Auto,
Tencent founded Future Mobility, a
car startup that aims to sell all-electric
fully autonomous premium cars in
2020. Tencent purchased a 5% stake in
Tesla for US$1.78 billion.
 RECENT INVESTMENTS
China's antitrust regulator blocked
Tencent's plan to merge China's top
two video game streaming sites,
Huya Live and DouYu. Tencent's
plan to take private search engine
Sogou was approved by SAMR.
July
2021
Tencent and The Lego Group,
the world's largest toy
company, teamed up to jointly
develop online games and
potentially a social network
aimed at children. It also
June launched its first unmanned
shop in Shanghai. Nov
2020 2017
Jan
Tencent acquired the video-on-
demand service iflix in Kuala
2018 Tencent purchased a 12%
stake in Snap Inc in the
Lumpur. open market, with plans to
help establish Snapchat as
a gaming platform
CONTROVERSIES

Allegations of Copying Security Concerns Government Partnerships

Many of Tencent's software
and services share similarities
to those of competitors.
In 2015, security testing firms AV-
Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus
Bulletin jointly decided to remove Tencent collaborated with
Tencent from their software Communist party to
whitelists. develop “patriotic games”

Censorship
Tencent's WeChat platform has been accused of blocking TikTok videos and the censorship of politically sensitive
content. In December 2019, the Chinese government ordered Tencent to improve the firm's user data rules for its
apps, which regulators regarded to be in violation of censorship rules.
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