Tencent's history and origin

Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. was founded in November 1998 by five founders, Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan, and Zeng Liqing***.? It is one of China's largest integrated Internet service providers and one of the Internet companies with the largest number of service users in China.?

Tencent's diversified services include social and communications services QQ and WeChat/WeChat, social networking platform Qzone, Tencent Gaming's QQ gaming platform, portal website QQ.com, Tencent news client and online video service Tencent Video.

In 2004 Tencent was publicly listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code 00700), and its chairman of the board and chief executive officer is Ma Huateng.

On March 7, 2018, Tencent and MediaTek*** established an innovation lab together to reach a strategic cooperation around the development and optimization of mobile games and other mutual entertainment products, and **** together to explore the application of AI on the terminal side.On June 20, 2018, the World Brand Lab (World Brand Lab) released the 2018 China 500 Most Value Brands" analysis report. Tencent (402.845 billion yuan) ranked second.On September 15, 2018, QQ Pet officially ceased operation.

Social

QQ (Every Day, Happy to Communicate):QQ is a cross-screen instant messaging platform based on PC and mobile Internet launched by Tencent. It supports a full range of basic communication functions such as online chatting, instant transmission of voice and video, and online (offline) transmission of files, and supports cross-terminal communication from PCs to cell phones to build a complete, mature, and diversified online life platform for users. Since its launch in 1999, it has connected hundreds of millions of Chinese families and users, and become the main platform for their daily emotional communication and business office. As of the third quarter of 2016, the number of monthly active accounts reached 877 million, with the highest number of simultaneous online accounts reaching 250 million.

WeChat (WeChat, a way of life):Launched in 2011, WeChat, with a purely innovative concept, has brought change to the lives of hundreds of millions of users. A new mobile lifestyle integrating instant communication, entertainment, socialization and life services is gradually taking shape in WeChat. Users can send voice, picture and text messages to realize multiple forms of instant communication; "Shake" and "Nearby People" create a new social experience; "Circle of Friends" shares life's moments and drives socialization among acquaintances; "Game Center" and "Emoji Store" provide more entertainment and leisure life experience; "Public Platform" allows every user to build his or her own brand, and also allows for more innovations to come out continuously; WeChat Pay is the most popular payment service in the world. WeChat Pay has opened the door to mobile life. As of the third quarter of 2016, the combined monthly active accounts of WeChat and WeChat reached 846 million. Connection to build a smart life, with the Internet as the medium, WeChat has grown from a communication tool to an open platform that connects various industries, connecting people and devices, connecting people and business services, and feeling smart life.

Qzone (Share Life, Keep Moving):Qzone is a large social platform that embraces all kinds of relationship chains of netizens, meets the needs of users for display, communication and entertainment, and is committed to creating an open platform for the Internet in China, and together with third-party websites, provides hundreds of millions of netizens with excellent and personalized social services. As of the third quarter of 2016, Qzone had 632 million monthly active accounts.

Relying on its huge user base, Tencent has been able to stand.

Expanded Information

Corporate Culture

Brand Logo

In 1999, QQ was upgraded to Beta 3, and began to design the brand logo. the penguin image was then selected from the images of pigeons, penguins, and several other small animals that had been designed by the company's artisans. The first penguin design was a black and white realistic one.

In October, Tencent participated in the China International Hi-Tech Fair and made QQ look slightly chubby and added a scarf. After that, Tencent got a professional design company to redesign on the basis of the black scarf around the neck was changed into a bright red scarf, one eye round, the other eye blinking. And Q sister after the official debut.

On December 30, 2005, Tencent replaced its new brand logo with a small penguin logo surrounded by green, yellow, and red trajectory lines, constituting the main body of the brand logo and the most eye-catching part of the brand logo, which embodies Tencent's brand connotation of "focusing on the user's values and needs".

The spherical logo is centered on QQ and spreads outward into a constantly running world, which is a metaphor for Tencent's start as the largest instant messaging community, and the continuous expansion of its business scope and operation areas in line with the development of user needs and Internet applications; the colorful trajectory lines that spread out around the main sphere emphasize the significance of the continuous flow and extension of the sphere, which is a metaphor for Tencent's continuous development with the core of user values and needs, and the continual development of Tencent to meet the multiple needs of people's online lives. meet the diverse needs of people's online lives.

Tencent QQ's little penguin logo will not withdraw from the Internet stage, and will continue to take on the responsibility of meeting users' needs for information transfer, *** enjoyment and communication as a representative of instant messaging on the Internet, as well as delivering the wonderful flavor of Internet entertainment and continuing to bring joy to the majority of Internet users.

Vision

The most popular Internet enterprise:

Continuously listen to and satisfy users' needs, guide and exceed users' needs, and win the respect of users;

Win the respect of employees by enhancing the brand image and giving them a high degree of corporate honor;

Promote the healthy development of the Internet industry, and grow with the partners***.

To win the respect of the industry;

To focus on corporate responsibility, service, care for the community, and give back to the community, to win the respect of the community.

Mission

Enhance the quality of human life through Internet services:

Make products and services like water and electricity integrated into people's lives, bringing convenience and pleasure to people;

Focus on different regions and groups, and provide differentiated products and services for different objects;

Build an open***winning platform and create a healthy Internet ecosystem with partners***. with partners to create a healthy Internet ecosystem.

Management Philosophy

Care for the growth of employees:

Provide employees with a good working environment and incentives;

Improve the staff training system and career development channels, so that employees and the company grow in tandem;

Full respect and trust in employees, and constantly guide and encourage them to get the joy of achievement.

Business Philosophy

Everything is based on user value:

Focus on long-term development, and do not harm user value due to commercial interests;

Focus on and y understand the needs of users, and continue to satisfy them with excellent products and services;

Emphasis on emotional communication with users, respect for the feelings of the user, and the growth of the user ****.

Values

Integrity, enterprise, cooperation and innovation.

References:

. p>Baidu Encyclopedia "Tencent"