China’s Tencent is embracing ‘connected companies’ as it focuses on online-to-offline services
May05
China’s largest Internet firm Tencent wears many hats — other than owning social network QQ and popular messaging service WeChat, it also publishes games and dabbles in e-commerce. At GMIC Beijing today, Tencent’s chief operating officer Mark Ren shed some light on the general focus of the company: it’s essentially a ‘connected company’ that links together not only people, but also people to services and products. To illustrate the concept further, Ren raised the examples of taxi-booking app Didi Dache and ‘China’s Yelp’ Dianping — both of which Tencent has invested in recently. He noted that both these services have helped…
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