Tencent QQ

Tencent QQ (formerly OICQ ) is a widely used in Asia, Free instant messaging network.

History

Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma ) developed together with his colleague Zhang Zhidong study (also called Tony Zhang ) OICQ and published it in November 1998. 's Success OICQ was outstanding. Within a year OICQ won five million users for themselves. Due to the ever -increasing number of users, more servers were needed, but Tencent could not afford the costs, so that Ma was obliged OICQ to sell. First, Ma held a sale price of 600,000 yuan for adequate, but could not find a suitable partner. Finally, we received a $ 2.2 million dollar investment capital of IDG and Pacific Century Cyber ​​Works Ltd.. and OICQ was renamed QQ.

The abbreviation QQ in the USA is also "quite quality" which literally " pretty good" means. To cover other ongoing costs Tencent developed value-added services such as QQshow and worked with well known companies such as Nokia and Nike. The concept was a success and by May 2008 could be 783 million registered users recorded. At this time, more than 40 million users were online at the same time.

In September 2012, Tencent entered into an agreement with the contracting authority cn domains of. , Under which all users of QQ should be given the opportunity to register your own domain. Experts expect that the cooperation because of the large spread of QQ triggers a run on the top-level domain. Cn.

Messenger versions

• QQ 2009 SP2: Released 24 December 2009, is the stable version of QQ Messenger for Windows operating systems.
• QQ 2010 Beta: Released February 1, 2010, is the latest beta version of QQ Messenger for Windows and brings official support for Windows 7.
• QQ International: Posted on February 2, 2010, is located in the Version 1.4 of 5 July 2012, and provides language support: Japanese, English, French and German.
• QQ for Mac: Released on 19 January 2009 in the version 1.0 is a version for the Apple Macintosh and offers a professional support to Mac OS X 10.4.11
• QQ Linux: Posted on January 4th, 2009 is a beta version of QQ Messenger for Linux.
• QQ Mobile 2009: Released on December 30, 2009 is a QQ Messenger application for Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
• QQ Iphone: Released on 4 July 2009, is a customized version of the QQ Mobile for the Apple iPhone.
• WEBQQ: Released in January 2009, is a Java applet -based QQ Messenger for the Web browser.

More QQ products

• QQ.com: 2003 published portal page to the messenger. It combines news, a search engine, a free e- mail inbox, software downloads, weather reports, SMS and MMS services, dating, online games and much more.
• QQmail: A value-added service for all QQ users. Each user can obtain on demand [email protected].
• QQshow: Using so-called Q -coins ( virtual currency, where 1 € = 10 Q -coins (Chinese: Q币Q bi) ) allows users to create avatars and customize them in QQ department stores.
• QQhome: Users can create, decorate them in QQhome shop and then retire with other users in this country and chat own virtual homes.
• QQgame: Games Portal. There you can a wide variety of games - board games, card games, etc. - play against other users. QQgame today operates among other MMORPGs, in order to eg World of Warcraft to compete. These is operated by QQgame Crossfire that the second most played MMOFPS, is next to Counter Strike Online in China.
• MobileQQ: Mobile QQ service that allows users to access the QQ network with the help of the mobile phone.
• QQgen ' ( QQ GENERATION ) is the own clothing line of QQ. She goes from a simple T -shirt Penguin imprint ( the logo of QQ ) to the CD box.
• Paipai (Chinese:拍拍Paipai ): With Paipai QQ wants to compete with eBay on the Chinese market.
• QQpet: you can from hatching of a little penguin to his growing up everything, " play ", send him to school, give him something to eat, let him take a shower and let him work.
• QQmusic is the music download portal of QQ.
• QQzone: QQzone is a social network, providing a personal Web page for the QQ users. The user may write blog and guestbook entries, and upload photos and manage. Friends of the user will be informed of status messages and changes in QQzone and can comment on them.