Anonymous ID: ca1112 Dec. 29, 2017, 10:35 a.m. No.14064127   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4277 >>4984

>>14063992

Agreed.

http://archive.is/MvcUa

Newest Tencent article on (((Wikipedia))).

The most interesting parts in it are Controversy paragraph and third text paragraph.

Controversy

Copying claims

Many of Tencent's software and services are remarkably similar to those of competitors.

The founder and chairman, Huateng "Pony Ma" Ma, famously said, "[To] copy is not evil." A former CEO and President of SINA.com, Wang Zhidong, said, "Pony Ma is a notorious king of copying."

Jack Ma of Alibaba Group stated, "The problem with Tencent is the lack of innovation; all of their products are copies.

As of 2009, the company held 400 patents.

Anti-malware software cheating allegations

In 2015, security testing firms AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus Bulletin jointly decided to remove Tencent from their software whitelists.

The Tencent products supplied for testing were found to contain optimizations that made the software appear less exploitable when benchmarked but actually provided greater scope for delivering exploits.

Additionally, software settings were detrimental to end-users protection if used. Qihoo was later also accused of cheating, while Tencent was accused of actively gaming the anti-malware tests.

Criticism on King of Glory

The People's Daily published two articles criticizing the Tencent owned game King of Glory, due to its purportedly addictive nature among Chinese youth.

Share prices for Tencent drop dramatically by 5% on the days the articles were published.

Third text paragraph fragment

On 20 November 2017, it became the first Asian company to cross the US$500 billion valuation mark, and has also surpassed Facebook to become the world's most valuable social media company, while joining the ranks of the top 5 biggest firms in the world alongside Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon.