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Side note: Tencent means "soaring information" [1] and not "10 cents" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
by tarr11 9y ago
Side note: Tencent means "soaring information" [1] and not "10 cents"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
- est 9y ago> not "10 cents" It does imply 10 cents. See https://www.zhihu.com/question/55269732/answer/145118163 https://www.zhihu.com/question/55269732/answer/145118163 (This site is basically China's quota, the answerer is Tencent official org account.) Basically, Tencent was a startup that charges 10 cents for each message delivered to pager devices via its OICQ software (网络寻呼机), and later 10 cents for each SMS message. Interesting though, Tencent(腾讯) was named after Lucent (朗讯), back in the time there was like hundreds of messaging companies in ShenZhen named *cent. e.g. 润讯，中讯，捷讯, etc.