In 2019, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Yet to many of the two billion-plus people who live just across the Pacific Ocean, it came as no surprise at all.
Tencent's ambition to be an essential part of digital daily life means it holds a dizzyingly diverse range of products - music, gaming, messaging, and film. In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews, exclusive details about the company's culture - tech reported Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent is changing the world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.
Lulu Chen has covered China and its technology landscape for a decade, for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. She's a three-time co-winner of The Society of Publishers in Asia Award, a frequent commentator on Bloomberg TV and Radio, BBC and ABC, and has a sizable personal following of 20,000 Twitter followers. |
Category: | Business & Management |
ISBN: | 9781529346862 |
Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
On sale: | August 2022 |
Format: | Paperback |
eBook ISBN |