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Tencent’s SY Lau: A Malaysian who took China by storm
Tencent’s SY Lau is the Cannes Lions 2015 Media Person of the Year, the first executive from a China-based company to receive the award – but he is also a Malaysian. Here, he speaks about his childhood, his plans for Tencent, and his hopes for Malaysia.
Tencent’s SY Lau named Cannes Lions ‘Media Person of the Year’
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity last month announced that the Cannes Lions 2015 Media Person of the Year Award will go to SY Lau, senior executive vice president of Tencent and president of its Online Media Group (OMG).
Chatting up a Smart Nation: How will we connect?
While 2014 seemed to have been the year where everyone craved to connect via every device, 2015 looks set to be the year where we live, breathe, play, purchase and chat via our mobile phones, writes Tencent’s Poshu Yeung.
MOL on Nasdaq: ‘This is just the beginning’
Fourteen years after quitting college on receiving RM2m funding from his main investor, Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan, Ganesh Kumar Bangah has repaid his confidence by taking his online-to-offline (O2O) payment company MOL Global Inc to a Nasdaq listing.
Face-off: LINE and WeChat announce new versions
The seeming head-to-head battle between mobile messaging platforms LINE BAND and WeChat entered a new phase with both announcing new versions within hours of each other.
WeChat hits Malaysian milestone
China-based Tencent has announced that its social networking mobile application WeChat has surpassed 400% growth since it became available in Malaysia in June.
Tencent and NHN are 'credible threats' says Ovum
Independent telecoms analyst firm Ovum has put China’s Tencent and South Korea’s NHN on the radar, as both companies look to expand beyond their home region.
Tencent ups the ante with WeChat, looking to build ecosystem
Shenzen-based Tencent has got itself a mobile-messaging and social media app which, while not wholly original, mixes and matches technologies and trends in its own unique way: Take the best of Instant Messaging, add equal parts of WhatsApp, a touch of Instagram and Twitter, and season it with some nifty features. Serve the biggest market in the world, and when it is properly settled, hit the rest of the world.
Game, set, match for China?
Rather than become a game developer yourself in Malaysia, and really in any other market in South-East Asia aside from Indonesia, you have a better chance of success if you invest US$100,000 in a new game developer in China instead.
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