What does Tencent’s Q4 earnings say about WeChat? Last Thursday, Tencent Holdings released its fourth quarter 2018 and full-year 2018 financial results, the first since it restructured in September. Unfortunately, the news was not good. Tencent suffered its largest quarterly profit drop in 13 y...
It was in 1998 that Ma realized Internet would transform China and the world, and launched his own company, Shenzhen Tencent Inc. A unit of Tencent, Tencent Holdings Ltd, went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2004. “ China’s reform and opening provided me wi...
When it comes to investing in the global financial markets, it’s important to have a clear understanding of various financial instruments. One such instrument that may come across your radar is a depositary receipt (DR). But what exactly is a depositary receipt, and how does it work? In t...
Spotify is a publicly traded company. Its largest shareholders are Spotify’s cofounders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, followed by Tencent Holdings, various hedge funds, as well as music industry giants Universal and Sony. Does Spotify have lyrics? Yes! Thanks to a partnership withGenius, yo...
Hypothesis 1: Private entrepreneurs’ sense of insecurity is due to fears of losing their own assets China's private entrepreneurs are wealthy elites, and wealth is a sign of their social status; what they are most proud of is their private property. Article 12 of the Constitution of China ...
A decentralized economy is fairer, more efficient, and more long-term sustainable than trusting any single company with the keys to the Metaverse. In the cryptoverse, everyone gets to access and control their own spaces. The Metaverse consists of many parts, but there are some basic foundations...
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Unlike theWest, China has long stopped trying to export its ideology. China does not blow its own trumpet to other third-world countries on how to grow an economy, or how to develop a society. The West should do the same. One thing I have learned as astudentof development economics is...
Yes, they’re at 260% of GDP, but if they own all their own debt, does it matter? If we just hit a button one day, 10 years down the road, and say, okay, we’re going to take the Fed in Treasury and they’re just going to wipe it clean, does it matter? I know that in...
The company's founder, Tim Sweeney, owns the majority of shares in Epic Games. Tencent Holdings, a Chinese company and the largest video games company in the world, owns a 40% stake. What Data Does Houseparty Collect? Houseparty outlines the data the app collects in its privacy policy. ...