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Tencent Holdings Limited (Chinese: 腾讯控股有限公司; pinyin: Téngxùn Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī; literally: "Soaring information"; SEHK: 700) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, payment systems, smartphones, internet mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Tencent is one of the largest Internet companies, as well as the largest gaming company in the world. Its many services include social network, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games, smartphones, and multiplayer online games, which are all among the world's biggest and most successful in their respective category. Offerings in China include the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ and one of the largest web portals, QQ.com. Mobile chat service WeChat has helped bolster Tencent's continued expansion into smartphone services. It also owns majority of China's music services (Tencent Music), with more than 600 million active users, the world's largest and most profitable. Tencent has been credited as one of the world's most innovative companies by numerous media and firms such as Boston Consulting Group, rising rapidly in its Innovative Rankings. On April 13, 2015, the market value of Tencent exceeded US$200 billion for the first time, hitting US$206 billion. On September 8, 2015, Tencent became the largest Internet company in Asia by value after Alibaba Group Holding Limited suffered a major drop ($141 billion over 10 months) in its share value. In April 2017, Tencent unveiled its very own flagship gaming platform, WeGame which will host games, content, and services from all over the world and will provide gaming info, purchases, downloads, live streaming and community services, creating an open ecosystem for gaming. WeGame is an upgraded version of TGP (Tencent Games Platform) that already has more than 200 million active users (compared to Steam's 125 million) and over 4.5 billion downloads, and is widely considered as a direct competitor to Steam. It will be dedicated to both global developers and players, and will assist developers who require help with translation. The gaming platform will support both Chinese and global users through a single storefront and is due to go online on 1st September 2017, Tencent has stated that the platform will focus on PC and standalone games and will no longer host web or mobile games, and will provide support to small and indie companies. Aside from mainstream games, the company has promised to also launch titles which includes Stardew Valley, Rocket League, Portal Knights, Minecraft, Cities: Skylines, with 170 games promised by the end of 2017. There are expectations that WeGame will grow huge and successful globally with its new focus on Western users, combined with the massive buying power of today’s Asian consumers. In May 2017, Tencent's market value grew to USD$343 billion (HK$2.64 trillion), shortly after surpassing Wells Fargo to enter the world's top 10 most valuable companies. As of June 2017, Tencent became the 8th most valuable company in BrandZ's Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, signalling its growing influence globally as well as the rise of Chinese brands. Alibaba overtook Tencent as Asia's most valuable company as its stocks surged after the company hosted its 2017 Investor's day. By the end of the month, the company has a market cap of USD$346 billion. The company has also developed its own voice assistant Xiaowei, and is in the midst of discussion to acquire Rovio Entertainment, the developer of Angry Birds. In August 2017, Tencent's market value rose to USD$409.50 billion. It also became the second Asian company after Alibaba Group to surpass USD$400 billion market cap. In September 2017, Tencent has announced plans to introduce Chinese online comics to every market around the world, with the first being North America. It will be working with San Francisco-based digital publisher Tapas Media, a partnership that will see English-language releases of a number of popular online Chinese titles. It also enters a partnership with Alibaba Group on music-streaming rights sharing, the deal aims to protect licensed streaming services offering copyrighted content of the music industry, encouraging more high-quality and original music, as well as developing China’s fast-growing streaming market. Alibaba will gain the rights to stream music from international labels, which already have exclusive deals with Tencent, in return for offering reciprocal rights to its catalogue of Chinese and Japanese music. Tencent has announced plans to increase advertising revenues through artificial intelligence and branded virtual costumes in video games. Tencent controls hundreds of subsidiaries and associates in numerous industries and areas, creating an astonishing portfolio of ownerships and investment across a wide diversity of companies. It is one of the most active investment corporations in the world, with recent focus on start-ups within Asia’s burgeoning tech scene.

Spotify är ett svenskt multinationellt företag, registrerat i Luxemburg, med en online-musiktjänst som erbjuder möjligheten att kunna lyssna till strömmad musik, podcasts och se videoklipp över Internet. Tjänsten är världens största i sitt slag, med sin omfattande musikkatalog och sitt snabbt växande antal användare; över 100 miljoner användare världen över, varav 30 miljoner är betalande abonnemangskunder (maj 2016).