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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tencent president Martin Lau said on Wednesday the company is holding a vast stockpile of chips.</li><li>Its inventory is enough to last its AI development a "couple more generations," Lau said.</li></ul>A top Tencent exec said on Wednesday that the Chinese tech giant is holding a huge stockpile of Nvidia processors, downplaying fears that new US export bans might cripple its business."Now in terms of the chip situation, right now we actually have one of the largest inventory of AI chips in China among all the players," Tencent president Martin Lau <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tencent.com/en-us/investors.html">said in a Q3 earnings call.</a>Lau said Tencent was one of the first in China to put in large orders for the H800 chip, the GPU specifically created by Nvidia for the China market. In October, the Biden administration banned the export of the H800 to China as part of a broader move to curb China's — especially the Chinese military's — access to US technology and advanced semiconductors.Lau addressed concerns that business would be affected, saying Tencent's stockpile of H800 chips is large enough to sustain <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tencent.com/en-us/articles/2201685.html">development of its AI model, Hunyuan,</a> for the foreseeable future."We have enough chips to continue our development of Hunyuan for at least a couple more generations," Lau said. "So the ban does not really affect the development of Hunyuan and our AI capability in the near future."But Lau also said Tencent will eventually have to pivot toward China-made AI chips."Going forward, we have to figure out ways to make usage of our AI chips more efficient," Lau said.Advanced chips like the H800 are key to tech firms staying competitive in AI , because they're essential to the speedier training of models. Chinese tech firms like Tencent and Alibaba have largely relied on US-made chips.Nvidia's H100, for example, was the chip used to train OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT.The US originally banned the export of the H100 and equivalent models to China, but Nvidia later <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-tweaks-flagship-h100-chip-export-china-h800-2023-03-21/">released new versions</a> of those chips, including the H800, designed as workaround processors to ship to China.So the <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/biden-china-nvidia-a800-h800-chips/">US banned exports</a> of those new chips, too.Before the ban, however, China's biggest tech players such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent collectively spent $5 billion to stockpile a total 100,000 advanced chips from Nvidia, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ft.com/content/9dfee156-4870-4ca4-b67d-bb5a285d855c">The Financial Times reported in August.</a>Chinese companies are rapidly debuting new AI models to rival their US counterparts, but have so far been playing catch-up.Tencent's model, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-top-five-rivals-to-openai-2023-4">Hunyuan</a>, is expected to focus mostly on gaming and enterprise software, which are key pillars of the tech firm's business.

Tencent shrugged off a new US AI chip ban, saying it's stockpiled enough Nvidia processors for 'a couple more generations'

<keyword id="212412" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tencent">Tencent</keyword>, <keyword id="6357395" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="eBay">eBay</keyword>, and <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword> have made investments aggregating to $1.4 billion in <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword>, India’s leading online marketplace. The latest funding round from the three global technology giants, at a post-transaction valuation of $11.6 billion, adds to an existing group of marquee investors that include Tiger Global Management, Naspers Group, Accel Partners and DST Global. 
 
Flipkart announced the feat in a blog post. 
 
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		Proud to announce the largest investment in <a href="https://twitter.com/Flipkart">@Flipkart</a> history ! <a href="https://t.co/ktwy39H3WW">https://t.co/ktwy39H3WW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TencentCorp">@TencentCorp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/eBay">@eBay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Microsoft">@Microsoft</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlipkartBigWin?src=hash">#FlipkartBigWin</a>
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Tencent, a leading provider of internet value-added services in China, joins as a strategic investor, bringing experience in linking social networking and e-commerce. Tencent will lend significant expertise to Flipkart as it furthers its leadership position across the e-commerce market in India. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-an-angel-investor-whose-midas-touch-with-crypto-currency-is-redefining-the-future-of-start-up-investments/articleshow/58062121.cms">ALSO READ: Exclusive: An Angel investor whose Midas touch with Crypto-currency is redefining the future of start-up investments</a> 
 
“This strategic partnership enables Tencent to participate in the exciting opportunities in e-commerce and payments in India. We look forward to helping Flipkart to deliver compelling experiences to users throughout India, and to contribute to the development of the internet ecosystem there,” said Martin Lau, Tencent President. 
 
<keyword id="161767" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="eBay-India">eBay India</keyword> is now part of the <keyword id="3515858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="flipkart-group">Flipkart Group</keyword> 
 
The investment by eBay is accompanied by a strategic commercial agreement with Flipkart. In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay is making a cash investment in and selling it's eBay.in business to Flipkart. eBay.in will continue to operate as an independent entity as a part of Flipkart. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-ace-angel-investor-sanjay-mehtas-true-life-experiences-that-makes-his-investments-in-startups-fool-proof/articleshow/58061818.cms">ALSO READ: Exclusive: Ace Angel Investor Sanjay Mehta’s true-life experiences that make his investments in startups fool-proof</a> 
 
<keyword id="2969294" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart-eBay">Flipkart eBay</keyword> “The combination of eBay’s position as a leading global e-commerce company and Flipkart’s market stature will allow us to accelerate and maximize the opportunity for both companies in India,” said <keyword id="375695" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Devin-Wenig">Devin Wenig</keyword>, President, and CEO of eBay Inc. 
 
Flipkart and eBay have also signed an exclusive cross-border trade agreement, as a result of which customers of Flipkart will gain access to the wide array of global inventory on eBay, while eBay’s customers will have access to unique Indian inventory provided by Flipkart sellers. Thus, sellers on Flipkart will now have an opportunity to expand their sales globally. 
 On its ten-year odyssey, the Flipkart Group has grown to encompass <keyword id="319719" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Myntra">Myntra</keyword> and Jabong, India’s leading online fashion destinations, and PhonePe — the leading UPI-based app that provides a cashless and seamless payment experience. Flipkart’s success has also emboldened a generation of Indian startups and entrepreneurial ventures, fanning the zeal of entrepreneurs and attracting big investments in the sector.

Flipkart announces raising $1.4 billion from Tencent, eBay & Microsoft, and acquires eBay India

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tech giant <keyword id="11894160" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tencent" source="Orion">Tencent</keyword> warned that <keyword id="11892748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword>'s regulatory crackdown on internet companies will continue. </li><li>New, tighter regulations have been putting pressure on several key sectors in China.</li><li>Asian tech stocks stumbled on Thursday morning after a series of volatile weeks. </li></ul>Tencent warned on its second-quarter earnings call that China's regulatory crackdown on internet companies will continue, as Asian tech stocks stumbled again after a series of volatile weeks."We should expect in the future, in the near future, more regulations should be coming," Martin Lau, Tencent's president said on the call. "This should be expected because the regulation has been actually quite loose over an industry like the internet, considering its size and the importance."Lau asserted the tightening regulations weren't an attempt by the Chinese government to squash the industry. Instead, he framed them as a way to identify and correct issues, and to enforce social responsibility and fair behaviour among companies. "The government does recognize the importance on the economic side and social side of the internet industry and also the contribution of the industry to global competitiveness," he added, before saying Tencent would be able to comply with the new rules. According to Lau, a similar tightening of regulations could also hit European and US tech firms soon, and China was simply ahead of the curve. China has been putting pressure on various key sectors, but especially tech and internet companies, in recent months by introducing and suggesting tighter regulations. Just this week, China's State Administration for Market Regulation <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/china-competition-rules-tech-industry-crackdown-alibaba-tencent-regulation-2021-8">proposed a series of new rules that would clamp down on unfair competition</a> between internet companies. This came after the country <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/china-tech-regulation-crackdown-tougher-legislation-key-industries-2021-8?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">published a five-year plan</a> that named tech innovation, internet finance, education, and other sectors as industries that would see new regulations come into play. Earlier this month, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tencent-stock-price-chinese-media-slams-online-gaming-addictive-regulation-2021-8?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">Tencent stock fell as much as 10%</a> after a state-led media outlet criticised online gaming, describing it as "spiritual opium" and "electronic drugs," which fueled investors' fears of tighter regulations.The developments have led to volatile trading in recent weeks. <keyword id="11893877" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alibaba" source="Orion">Alibaba</keyword>'s Hong Kong-listed shares closed 5.54% lower on Thursday, and its US-listed shares were down 3.74% in pre-market trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Tencent itself closed 3.44% down in Hong Kong, despite beating market expectations and posting a 29% jump in profit for the second quarter year-on-year to 42.6 billion renminbi ($6.6 billion).

Tencent warns China's regulatory crackdown on internet companies isn't over yet

<ul><li>Shares of <keyword id="156159" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rakuten">Rakuten</keyword> jumped 24% on Monday after the company announced plans to raise $2.2 billion.</li><li>The company plans to shore up its logistics infrastructure from artificial intelligence to mobile in order to better compete with US heavyweights.</li><li>The company on Friday said it will <a href="https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2021/0312_01.html?year=2021&amp;month=3&amp;category=corp%20irorp%20ir">sell shares to major investors</a> such as <keyword id="212412" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tencent">Tencent</keyword> Holdings, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/WMT:US">Walmart</a>, and <keyword id="1588915" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Japan-Post">Japan Post</keyword> Holdings. </li><li><a href="https://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/10-things-opening-bell">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell</a></li></ul>Shares of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten jumped 24% on Monday after the company announced plans to raise $2.2 billion to shore up its logistics infrastructure from artificial intelligence to mobile in order to better compete with US heavyweights.The company on Friday said it will <a href="https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2021/0312_01.html?year=2021&amp;month=3&amp;category=corp%20irorp%20ir">sell shares to major investors</a> such as Tencent Holdings, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/WMT:US">Walmart</a>, and Japan Post Holdings. In total, Rakuten plans to issue 211,656,500 shares at the equivalent of around $10.50 apiece with a payment date between March 29 and April 30.Japan Post is expected to purchase 131,004,000 shares for an 8.3% stake while Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent is expected to buy 57,382,900 for a 3.6% stake. American retail giant <keyword id="80487" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="walmart">Walmart</keyword> is expected to get 14,536,000 shares for a 0.9% stake."These new investments in Rakuten indicate both high expectations for the growth and impact of the Rakuten Ecosystem with the mobile service at its core, as well as great potential for further collaboration with leading companies from the world's three leading economies," Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten Chairman and CEO, said in a <a href="https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2021/0312_01.html?year=2021&amp;month=3&amp;category=corp%20irorp%20ir">statement</a>.The company, founded in 1997, also added that apart from boosting its technological backbone to keep up with the "rapidly changing internet industry," the selling of shares is also to "strengthen the relationship with the panned allottees."Rakuten currently has over 70 businesses, and admitted in the statement that stable logistics services have become a "pressing issue," especially amid the pandemic. This explains its partnership with the national postal service of Japan, which has a nationwide distribution network as well as a huge delivery volume and data.As for Tencent, one of the largest businesses in China by market capitalization that specializes in social media and communication, it has been in contact with Rakuten for several years "especially on matters related to internet development trends," the statement said."Rakuten has built a vibrant ecosystem through its membership and loyalty program, extending its [unrivaled] strength from e-commerce to FinTech and digital content," Martin Lau, Tencent executive director and president, said. "We look forward to pursuing strategic cooperation across activities including digital entertainment and e-commerce, creating value for users and building the Internet ecosystem together."Walmart, meanwhile, is part of Rakuten's push to ramp up the Japanese company's online grocery business, "Rakuten Seiyu Net Super," which has seen steady growth since 2018. Rakuten has also promoted the transition of the in-house official language into English since 2010 - a rare move for a Japanese company.Rakuten, with its 1.5 billion members worldwide, has a market value of $16.5 billion.

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten jumps 24% after disclosing sale of stake to Walmart, Tencent

<keyword id="1868750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Hike-Messenger">Hike Messenger</keyword>, India’s only homegrown messaging platform has raised a Series D financing of over USD 175 million. The funding round was led by <keyword id="212412" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tencent">Tencent</keyword> Holding Limited and <keyword id="6354671" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Foxconn">Foxconn</keyword> Technology Group. The round valued the company, which is India’s biggest internet company in terms of users, close to USD 1.4 Billion. 
 The funding round also saw participation from <keyword id="44033" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="hike">Hike</keyword>’s existing investors, viz. <keyword id="526777" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tiger-Global">Tiger Global</keyword>, Bharti Airtel, and the <keyword id="163404" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Softbank">Softbank</keyword> Group. With this round, fourth for Hike, its total investment has gone up to USD 250 million. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Hike-just-unveiled-its-new-headquarters-and-trust-us-its-gorgeous-HikeHQ/articleshow/50925928.cms">In pictures: I spent two hours at Hike's new office and I wish I could go back again!</a> 
 
“Hike deeply understands India; a highly diverse market with many nuances. It is on a mission synergistic to ours, which is to enhance the quality of human life through internet services. With our investments, Hike will be able to leverage our deep domain expertise in the messaging platform space to provide more value to its users in India,” said Tencent President Martin Lau. 
 
Hike currently engages 100 million users that send 40 billion messages per month, with 95% of users based in India and 90% of them being below the age of 30. The average time that a Hike user spends on its platform every week comes out to 120 minutes. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Want-to-work-at-Hike-Messenger-Kavin-Mittal-tell-you-4-qualities-hes-looking-for/articleshow/51010049.cms">Exclusive: Here are the 4 qualities Hike’s Kavin Mittal looks for while hiring</a> 
 
Following are the three key pillars on which the messenger has been built: 
 
1. Local expressive content: Hike is popular for giving over 10000 stickers to its users in over<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Hike-goes-multilingual-to-suit-Indian-users/articleshow/50282215.cms"> 40 languages</a>, themes and UIs. This relevant local content, including news in Hindi and English, games, Live Cricket, Coupons etc. is what attracts young users to Hike. 
2. Emphasis on privacy: Hike boasts of an innovative feature, called Hidden mode, which can quickly hide chats. Other than that, it also allows users to control who can see their pictures, statuses and ‘last seen’ timings. 
3. Data constraints: In case there is no internet connectivity, Hike users can use Hike2SMS for sending SMSs, and Hike Direct for sharing files. 
 
Also speaking on the occasion was Masayoshi Son, founder, chairman and CEO of the SoftBank group, who said, “Hike is one of SoftBank’s best performing portfolio companies in India and we are happy to have stayed invested in it from the beginning. The team has reached an outstanding scale in a short span of 3.5 years. As an investor, we share their vision and we are happy that they are moving ahead in their journey so quickly in a competitive environment.” 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Softbank-President-Nikesh-Arora-quits/articleshow/52851915.cms">As Nikesh Arora quits, SoftBank will continue its focus on Indian startups</a> 
 “I’m thrilled to announce this new milestone in our journey. Tencent and Foxconn both have pedigrees that speak for themselves and such an investment especially in today’s market just goes to show the strong foundation on which Hike is being built. The new fund raise is going to allow us to push Hike to greater heights and invest in areas that will be key to our long term vision and success,” said Hike founder and CEO <keyword id="6567188" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kavin-Bharti-Mittal">Kavin Bharti Mittal</keyword>.

Hike raises $175mn from Foxconn and Tencent

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Rohan Silva/Second HomeRohan Silva, cofounder of Second Home.</div></div></div>Second Home, the quirky East London office space, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/second-home-raises-10-7m-from-yuri-milner-martin-lau-index-and-plans-lisbon-home/">has raised £7.5 million ($10.7 million)</a> from a host of big name investors to help fund the <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/exclusive-second-home-is-expanding-2015-10" target="_blank">expansion of its current premises</a> and open up its first overseas space.Speaking at Digital Life Design conference in Munich today, cofounder Rohan Silva said the funding is coming from venture capitalist Yuri Milner, Tencent chairman Martin Lau, and venture capital firm Index Ventures.Second Home will also launch in Lisbon later this year, Silva said, adding that it will be done in conjunction with local investor Faber Ventures."Right now Lisbon feels like East London just before the tech cluster exploded," <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/second-home-raises-10-7m-from-yuri-milner-martin-lau-index-and-plans-lisbon-home/">Silva told TechCrunch</a>. "It's a super-creative city, but there are not enough places for creative people to come together. At the same time, big companies are shrinking, my more people are becoming entrepreneurs and the built environment of cities needs to evolve to keep pace with this."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Iwan BaanSecond Home in London.</div></div></div>Second Home was launched just off Brick Lane in 2014 with backing from the likes of Big Brother creator and Arts Council England chair Sir Peter Bazalgette and <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/former-goldman-sachs-economist-jim-oneill-joins-the-uk-government-2015-5">former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-apple-iphone-6s-comparison-features-2015-12">7 ways the Samsung Galaxy S6 is better than the iPhone 6s</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="RvcmIyeDrz5o1xUM5hqpulpdksh9vTWQ" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>Imagine selling a $14 million New York City apartment&#xa0;entirely through Twitter or SnapChat.&#xa0;Emma Hao, an agent for luxury-home broker Douglas Elliman has done it.Well...that's not quite true. Hao brokered the sale through WeChat, China's most popular instant messaging app. She does this a lot, and she's not alone."I'll put up a floor plan and say that a new property is good on the blog and the location is great. Then people will say 'I'm interested' and buy," she said. "It's really something else."<h2>An unexpected use</h2>Chinese Internet and gaming giant Tencent launched WeChat in 2011 as a voice messaging app with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-kik-like-apps-at-a-glance-2011-8">location services</a>. But it's grown into a seamless one-stop shop for common apps: users can watch movies, call cabs, share photos, buy clothes, play games, and <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wechat-webank-and-we-more---tencent-holdings-analyst-report-issued-by-brokerbank-securities-inc-300080722.html">even offer personal loans</a>.Lately, it's turned into something of a real-estate sales platform - specifically connecting Chinese buyers with agents in the U.S.Chinese nationals are the largest group of foreign buyers of U.S. real estate. Looking for a safer place to park their assets and diversify their holdings, they're also willing to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-chinese-super-rich-are-about-to-flood-the-us-real-estate-market-2015-8"> pay&#xa0;more than all other nationalities</a>, according&#xa0;to the National Realtors Association. And there are 650 million &#xa0;- largely Chinese - users on WeChat. That's more than double the US population. "I would pay $100 a month to use WeChat," said Jing Wang, a 36-year-old real estate agent for Lin Pan Realty Group in New York.&#xa0;"It would be much harder to be introduced and reach Chinese clients because many of the social websites, like Facebook, are blocked in China - that's a lot of time and money."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Wang, who specializes in serving Chinese buyers&#xa0;only joined WeChat after becoming a real-estate agent.&#xa0;All of his Chinese clients communicate with him via the app. He says he's sold properties up to $5 million, with the buyer in China through the entire process.Tours are given via video and photos, and negotiations are completed solely through the chatting app. A legal representative cements the deal on the brokers end, and an electronic version of the contract makes its way to the new owners. Payments however, are still done by cash.For the buyers seeking investment properties, the prospect of a&#xa0;15-hour flight from the east coast of China to New York&#xa0;is reason enough to rely on WeChat."WeChat has become essential to consumers' daily lives," Xiaofeng Wang, an&#xa0;analysts at Forrester Research in Beijing wrote in a July note. "Marketers the world over must take account of WeChat, which has become so ubiquitous that it has changed Chinese consumers' mobile behaviors in profound ways."Real estate agent Wang advertises his listings via a free blog and leaves voice recordings with clients, so negotiations can be done over days rather than late at night.But there's also the issue of trust. Buying a multi-million dollar investment from someone you've never met before seems reckless.But users such as Hao use their apps as a personal blog: she&#xa0;posts&#xa0;photos and write about her food, clothes, makeup and lifestyle - and that fosters an online personality."I say what I want to say so they know exactly who I am, and I update my daily life - and people like it. You show you have a personality - that's what makes a sale," she said. "Maybe they never&#xa0;comment on anything, and suddenly they'll send you a message."<h2>Tencent's strategy: Appeal to marketers</h2>It's certain that the property deals are only a tiny portion of activity on WeChat, but they're an unexpected area of growth for the app that&#xa0;has been struggling to gain traction in the West. Owned by Chinese Internet giant Tencent, WeChat earlier this year stopped advertising in the West as user growth plateaued.Overseas user acquisition "has sort of come to an end," said Tencent President Martin Lau Chi-ping during&#xa0;a <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CDUQFjADahUKEwjCmuiQ6I3JAhUBeT4KHZ01AXU&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scmp.com%2Flifestyle%2Farticle%2F1741792%2Ftencent-scraps-wechat-global-expansion-plans-despite-strong-profits&amp;usg=AFQjCNHELwd4C2h2OGuIibbrTBo8F8unCQ">press conference in March</a>.Tencent released third quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting a 32% increase in profits to $1.2 billion - beating analysts expectations. WeChat alone reported an increase to&#xa0;roughly 650 million active monthly users, up 39% since last year. The agents don't pay anything right now to use WeChat, even if they're able to sell an apartment. If the real-estate firms were to seek a formal presence on the platform, like some luxury brands have, they'd have to pay for that.Tencent didn't respond to Business Insider's request for comment. We'll update this post if we hear backInstead of trying to gain more users overseas, Tencent has turned its attention to expanding WeChat's&#xa0;already vast ecosystem within China and South East Asia - cementing a&#xa0;pool of extremely loyal users that spend on average&#xa0;more than half their time on mobile using WeChat, according to Forrester Research.&#xa0;<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Grata.co" title_caption="WeChat's estimate of how the app has affected spending in lifestyle and entertainment." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5638dbde9dd7cc10008c6d69-960/wechat-impact-report-14-1024.jpg"></div></div></div>For Tencent, increased O2O activity helps boost their nascent payment service, Weixin Pay, and heightens&#xa0;the chances&#xa0;of more advertising revenue from companies - which is becoming a increasingly important portion of Tencent's business.<h2>No broader U.S. surge expected</h2>Tencent shouldn't expect the unexpected usage by brokers to turn into an overall surge in the U.S., though, because&#xa0;people separate their personal and professional lives, independent analyst Bryan Wang said.While Westerners may use the platform to reach Chinese customers, few will&#xa0;use it at home."In our opinion, WeChat is likely to focus more in establishing a strong ecosystem in China as the competitive landscape in the West seems to be much more challenging," said John Choi, executive director of&#xa0;at Daiwa Capital Markets. "The user interface of the Asian messaging apps tend to appeal more to Asian users."Still, the brokers aren't deterred.&#xa0;Maurice Owen-Michanne, 34, is another New York City based agen who who has sold a property worth $4 million over WeChat. The client had a legal&#xa0;representative&#xa0;who viewed the property, while the buyer relied on&#xa0;photos, blueprints and videos. He speaks almost no Chinese."It's helped tremendously break down the traditional barriers and strengthen my relationship with my clients," he said.&#xa0; <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cop-pulls-clever-move-to-save-a-man-from-suicide-2015-10">Cop pulls a clever move to save a man from suicide</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="Fva2IxeDo_F1XueEXgAq2Q4PjLqva1_D" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image">Kevin Smith/Business Insider</div></div><keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword> made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among <keyword id="6524593" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Teens">teens</keyword>". In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It was a landmark statement, since teens are the demographic who often point the rest of us towards the next big thing.
Their gradual exodus to messaging apps such as <a href="http://www.whatsapp.com/" title="">WhatsApp</a>, WeChat and KakaoTalk boils down to Facebook becoming a victim of its own success. The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos. No surprise, then, that Facebook is no longer a place for uninhibited status updates about pub antics, but an obligatory communication tool that younger people maintain because everyone else does.
All the fun stuff is happening elsewhere. On their mobiles.
When mobile messaging apps such as <keyword id="790242" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</keyword> first emerged in 2009, they looked like a threat to mobile carriers. Everyone from Vodafone to Dutch operator KPN was mentioning them in sales calls. Mobile operators are estimated to have lost $23bn in SMS revenue in 2012 due to messaging apps, which host free instant messages through a phone's data connection, which these days is often unlimited. Now these apps are becoming a threat to established social networks too.
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app in the UK and on half the country's iPhones, according to Mobile Marketing Magazine, has more than 350 million monthly active users globally. That makes it the biggest messaging app in the world by users, with even more active users than social media darling Twitter, which counts 218 million. About 90% of the population of Brazil uses messaging apps, three-quarters of Russians, and half of Britons, according to mobile consultancy Tyntec. WhatsApp alone is on more than 95% of all smartphones in Spain. The power users and early adopters of these apps, the ones you're most likely to see tapping their thumbs over a tiny screen, are under 25.
Part of the reason is that gradual encroachment of the grey-haired ones on Facebook. Another is what messaging apps have to offer: private chatting with people you are friends with in real life. Instead of passively stalking people you barely know on Facebook, messaging apps promote dynamic real-time chatting with different groups of real-life friends, real life because to connect with them on these apps you will typically already have their mobile number. The trend flies in the face of recurring criticism of young people - that their social lives are largely virtual - when many more are in fact embracing the virtues of privacy and services like WhatsApp, which shun advertising.
"I only use WhatsApp to communicate and send pics these days," said Natalie West, a twentysomething financial sales associate in London. In the last few years she has used Facebook less and less because she doesn't want "the whole world to know" what she's doing. When people set up events and get-togethers on Facebook, West and her boyfriend tend to reply on WhatsApp instead because "it's more personal". For similar reasons, some 78% of teenagers and young people use mobile messengers to plan a meet-up with friends, according to <a href="http://www.mobileyouth.org/about/" title="">research advisory firm mobileYouth</a>.
Another factor is the rise of the selfie, often silly self-portraits taken at arm's length with a mobile. Almost half of the photos on Instagram feeds among people aged 14 to 21 in the UK are selfies, according to mobileYouth. Sending those photos via a mobile messaging service is safer than broadcasting them on Facebook, since they're less likely to be seen by a boss or dozens of Facebook friends you forgot you had. Selfies are even bigger on <a href="http://www.snapchat.com/" title="">Snapchat</a>, the evanescent photo sharing app that deletes a photo several seconds after it has been viewed. With around 150 million active users, the service has inevitably become a favoured way for teens to send sexy or even naked photos of themselves, an ill-advised practice known as "sexting". But teens also love Snapchat because it allows them to send inane photos of themselves without fear of leaving a permanent digital footprint.The California-based app is seen as so hot, with so much potential for growth, that it has already been pegged with a $2-$4bn valuation in the Silicon Valley tech community. Estimates are even higher for WhatsApp, which makes money through an annual subscription; some observers suggest it could be worth $5bn or more.
The final, big reason why young people are gravitating towards messaging apps is that many of these apps no longer do just messaging. They are social networks. The best examples come out of Asia, with messaging platforms KakaoTalk (South Korea), WeChat (China) and LINE (Japan). All have tens of millions of users, with WeChat boasting more than 200 million, and take their services beyond offering straight messaging to games, stickers and music sharing. Before you write off digital stickers as inane, they are a decent moneyspinner for LINE: of the $58m the company made in sales in the first quarter of 2013, half came from selling games and 30%, or roughly $17m, from sales of its 8,000 different stickers. Some are free or, in Spain where LINE has 15 million registered users, cost around €1.99. Often users choose stickers instead of words when they need to express themselves, one LINE executive said; it's known to have helped couples get over fights more easily by offering multiple stickers to say sorry.
Gaming is another money-maker. With KakaoTalk, which is thought to be on 90% of all smartphones in South Korea, registered users can choose from more than 100 games they can play with one another, and games alone helped the company generate $311m in sales in the first half of 2013. A couple of non-Asian messaging apps such as Kik (Canada) and Tango (US) are turning themselves into full-fledged platforms too, inviting software engineers to create games that run on their apps. They will typically let developers take home half the revenue while taking a 20% cut. App stores such as Google Play and Apple's App Store take the remaining 30%. Tango took all this a step further this month when it partnered with music-streaming Spotify to allow its 60 million monthly users to share music clips with one another. Two years ago Spotify launched a similar partnership with Facebook. "What we're seeing in the messaging space is an explosion in growth," said Spotify's vice-president of strategic partnerships, Tom Hsieh, who hinted there would be partnerships with other messaging apps in the future too. "I don't think there's been a clear winner [among them] yet."
It is worth noting that, with so many of these apps getting into games, stickers and now music sharing, it is becoming harder to define them as messaging services. "I think there is some misunderstanding here in how we categorise these apps," says Pavel Durov, who founded Russia's version of Facebook, <a href="http://VK.com" title="">VK.com</a>, and recently launched a mobile messaging service called Telegram. "They are social networks. You have a social graph there; a newsfeed; you have profile pages. Many things that are related to social networks by definition." Social chat apps is another way to define them, says Gartner mobile analyst Brian Blau. "People are sometimes using three or four of these apps."
Many of the Asian chat apps such as Kakao and LINE are struggling to appeal to US users, though, because of the stylised nature of their interfaces - vivid colors, manga-style characters and lettering. "We're used to being a little more subdued," says Blau, who is based in the US.
In the race to become platforms with extra frills, the big exception is WhatsApp. Founder Jan Koum has said publicly that he has no plans for his service to start providing games. Koum and his co-founder Brian Acton, both former Yahoo managers who were one of the first to create a mobile messaging app for smartphones with WhatsApp, see it almost as a pure communication utility that should not be saddled with extra features that might slow things down. "That's what's happened with Facebook now," says Neeraj Arora, business manager for WhatsApp, which is based in Mountain View, California. "It tries to do everything for everyone. Our core is communication."
That is a somewhat conservative approach compared to most other messaging platforms, yet WhatsApp is still quietly broadening out. In the same way Facebook first rolled our Facebook Connect in 2008 to allow people to use their profiles to like or comment on other websites, WhatsApp recently unveiled an instruction set known as an API that lets other mobile apps share content through WhatsApp too. The roll-out is still in its infancy, but after one music streaming service in the Middle East added the WhatsApp sharing button, its was surprised to find its users sharing 50% more songs via WhatsApp than Facebook.
The future for these messaging apps is still uncertain. Some in the industry expect buyouts from big internet companies like Google, which was rumoured to have flirted with WhatsApp earlier this year. Facebook already has its own popular Messenger service, while Apple has iMessage - both are popular, but lack the gaming ambitions of Asian chat apps. Still, it is hard to imagine these players consolidating to create a global social network as big as Facebook.
"If you look at the landscape, it's geographic," says Greg Woock, CEO of the US calling and messaging service Pinger. "We dominate the US, WhatsApp dominates Europe, LINE owns Japan." China's WeChat is trying to break out of that mould. Its executives have talked about expanding internationally, and custom building its app to suit local tastes for how it should look. "We have put a lot of thought into how to take it outside of China," Martin Lau, the president of WeChat owner Tencent, said at a recent conference.
Who dies, survives or thrives may ultimately depend on how well any of these players can make money. Snapchat, arguably a photo-sharing service more than a messaging app, has yet to explain how it will do so.
WhatsApp says it is already profitable thanks to its annual subscription fees; Pinger relies on advertisements; WeChat, LINE, Kakao and Kik sell stickers and games. Some of these services are bound to go out of fashion, and a few business models will fail, and they're still a world away from the $2.1bn in sales that Facebook brought in this last quarter.
But there is little doubt that millions of teens will use these apps more and more, and older demographics will eventually join them. There's a good chance that will continue to be at the expense of Facebook.
Parmy Olson is a technology writer for Forbes magazine in San Francisco. She is the author of <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780434022083" title="">We Are Anonymous</a> (Little, Brown, 2012).
<h2>Top messenger apps</h2>
WhatsApp Started in 2009 by two ex-Yahoo staff, this smartphone messaging system handles more than 10 billion messages a day and is reckoned to have more than 250m users worldwide. One of the most popular paid-for apps on any platform, and a threat to telecoms companies which charge for texts.
Snapchat Allows users to send "view once'"photos, specifying how long the photo will remain on the recipient's device. "Snap an ugly selfie or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll receive it, laugh, and then the snap disappears," says Snapchat. The company is valued at $800m and users send 350m messages per day, up from 200m in June.
WeChat The Chinese social media app, which handles voice messages, snapshots and emoticons, has more than 200m subscribers. The vast majority of users are in China, though it also has subscribers in the US and UK. It is being tipped as the first Chinese social media application with the potential to go global.
KakaoTalk A Korean messaging app with more than 90m users that generated $42m of revenues in 2012, ending the year with users sending 4.8bn messages a day. The company recently launched KakaoHome in its home country: a similar app that provides "a customised home screen experience on your smartphone" with widgets, notifications and deeper integration of the main messaging service.

This article originally appeared on <a>guardian.co.uk</a>

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