China is now very advanced in terms of information technology . Bamboo Curtain country qualified to make a good product hardware , software , and applications .
One of the IT tycoons in China is Ma Huateng . According to the Forbes list , Ma was ranked the 2nd richest man in China . Everyday, Pony Ma was called because in Mandarin , Ma means horse .
Ma age is young , not even 43 years old . But wealth reached U.S. $ 13.4 billion . Globally , Ma is the 80th richest person in the world .
Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings , an Internet company whose shares are the favorite of investors in the capital market of China . Tencent 's flagship product is WeChat , instant messaging applications worldwide fame .
WeChat make Lionel Messi , the best footballer the world 4 times , as the star of its ads . WeChat users now exceed 270 million .
Besides WeChat , Tencent QQ also has , instant messaging applications are very hit in Uncle Mao . Later the company also made a number of online games such as Legend of Yulong and Legend of Xuanyuan .
Ma graduated from Shenzhen University and later founded Tencent in 1998 . QQ is the first product of Tencent . As of September 2012 , reaching 784 million QQ users .
More recently , Tencent expand the business by acquiring the giant electronics shopping website in China , JD.com . This step is believed by many parties to compete with Alibaba , the ruler of online shopping .
" Alibaba is the largest e-commerce company in China , they become the ruler of the market over the last decade . Till now no one has been able to shake the position , " said Bryan Wang , researchers at consulting firm Forrester Research , as quoted from the BBC .
But Tencent contenders very inconvenient for Alibaba . A growing number of Internet users who use mobile phones , and this is where Tencent entered . They already have a base and mature experience in mobile applications .
" Tencent is trying to do things done by Alibaba . Tencent has a strong base , so they seem able to be challenging at the top of Alibaba , " said Wang .
In fact , it seems that Alibaba was panicked face Tencent . Alibaba also launched WeChat competitors , namely Laiwang . They also bought a stake in Weibo , which is China's her Twitter .
" Looks like Alibaba that fear , and they will soon IPO . Jack Ma ( Alibaba owner ) may be desperate , " said Shaun Rein , managing director at China Market Research Group .
