The United States sell online instant communication business
Shenzhen special zone daily dispatch (reporter WangXiaoQing) tencent international is expected to recruit, new America online (AOL) has announced that its instant messaging service ICQ sell in the final round of bidding, There are many improvements in Office 2010 download .
the bid for in the three companies, ranked tencent. Reporters yesterday afternoon call tecent company has not been any sure when reply, officials say it would not comment on to.
According to the overseas Media reports, participate in bidding for ICQ another two enterprise were Russia DST group, Rambler Media ProfMedia parent company, ProfMedia bid prices for 120 million dollars, DST offer slightly more than $120 million, tecent company offer temporary unknown. The Internet famous analysts HongBo says if tencent acquisition success, Discount Office professional 2010 are for you.
quite so ICQ disciple bid for teacher, will help tencent expand into international markets.
ICQ is first appeared of instant messaging software, was one of the instant communication field leaders, now has 42 million active users, mainly concentrated in the outside the United States overseas markets, such as Germany, Russia, eastern Europe and Israel, including 18.5 million users from Russia, accounting for 44% of the total number of users. Tencent QQ predecessor called OICQ, just start is also copy the operation mode and growing and developing ICQ. In ICQ, after interference tencent OICQ renamed tencent QQ.
America online in 1998 spent $287 million acquisition ICQ, meanwhile to the team paid $120 million in additional fees. Merger But after the takeover, ICQ built-in search function and due to insert advertisement bloating, user growth to slow speed. For the sell ICQ business, to be sure, whatever the company acquisitions, its success is the fee that pays all is far lower than the AOL in 1998 the amount of payment.
But this year, in February to spread tencent bid for news, Office 2007 is on sale now.
tencent ICQ first big shareholders, have tencent 35.2% of the shares the African media company library Naspers CEO Lawrence worship Kerr promptly said the company didn’t purchase ICQ instant messaging service and AOL contact. Analysis of the personage inside course of ICQ, in 14 years in the development process of accumulating many users, the international brand and users to tencent very valuable, tencent, and the hand, the enterprise strength is strong, cash than two other Russian companies, tencent and on-line cooperation with the United States the experience, therefore, tencent participate in bidding for bigger win.