Tencent invests in traditional enterprises

Internet products and companies acquired or invested by Tencent 20 12 mainly include:

Tencent acquired two mobile phone design companies.

On July 3, Qi Xiangdong, president of 360 Company, revealed that Tencent acquired two mobile phone design companies, but did not disclose specific details. Previously, Tencent CEO Ma said on many occasions that Tencent does not make smart phones, but only provides smart phone services.

Tencent has not yet launched its own brand mobile phone products, but only launched QQ services, integrating various Tencent services such as mobile QQ, mobile browser, mobile QQ space and mobile Weibo. Previously, it has reached cooperation with mobile phone manufacturers such as HTC, Huawei, ZTE, Tianyu, BBK, Hisense and Coolpad. Provide customized mobile Internet overall service support for QQ service.

In this regard, Tencent has not responded.

At present, Internet companies have set foot in the field of mobile phones, and Xiaomi, Alibaba Group, Baidu, 360 and Shanda have successively entered the market. Xiaomi Company adopts triathlon mode of software+hardware+Internet; Alibaba Cloud OS has reached cooperation with Tianyu and Haier; Baidu reached cooperation with Dell and Changhong; 360 adopts the special machine mode, cooperates with mobile phone manufacturers, and makes an open platform for mobile phones; Shanda Bambook dabbles in hardware.

Hangzhou Magic Music Software said it had been acquired by Tencent.

On March 22nd, the person in charge of Magic Music Software confirmed to TechWeb that Tencent had acquired Hangzhou Magic Music Software Co., Ltd. at the end of 201/kloc-0.

It is reported that Magic Music Software was established in March 2009. Its main product is Magic Music Mobile Manager, which is a PC-side management software for Android phones. After being acquired by Tencent, it is mainly responsible for operating Tencent application assistant products.

Application Assistant is a PC-side mobile phone resource management software launched by Tencent in August last year. It has the function of downloading Android applications and managing mobile phone resources synchronously by PC.

The main competitors of application assistant and Magic Music mobile phone housekeeper are 9 1 mobile phone assistant launched by NetDragon and pea pods invested by innovation works. At present, the installed capacity in pea pods is 25 million.

It is reported that the magic music software team has more than 40 people, with an average age of about 25 years old.

Analysts believe that Tencent's investment in magic music software is intended to lay out the entrance of mobile phone applications. It is worth noting that last year Shanda intended to invest in magic music software. (Source: TechWeb)

Tencent acquired a minority stake in Epic, an American video game company.

On June 20th, according to foreign media reports, Tencent, a social networking giant in China, acquired a minority stake in Epic, an American game company. Epic is the developer of games such as Infinity Blade and Unreal Tournament. This acquisition is another investment and test of the western game field after Tencent acquired Riot Games, a Los Angeles game company, last year.

Tencent did not disclose the specific transaction share. According to informed sources, Tencent's acquisition opponent is Warner Bros. Tencent said that Epic will continue to operate independently and the transaction will be completed within one month.

Epic is also a popular manufacturer in unreal engine. This technology has been used by other game companies to develop cutting-edge games.

Epic said in a statement on Tuesday that the purpose of the transaction is to enter the fast-growing Asian market and improve its profitability rapidly. Tim sweeney, founder and CEO, said that the deal includes content cooperation with Tencent, which will use Tencent's strong user base to expand the company's business scope to China and Asia, and enter PC-based online games and mobile games.

Sweeney declined to disclose the amount of Tencent's investment in Epic, but said it was "a big enough deal". This transaction is the first time Epic has introduced external investment.