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A war between China's largest IT companies
"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."
- dknet 16y ago"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."
- dknet 16y agoFrom my point of view, this war is thrilling but at a cost of ignoring the nearly 1 billion users' feelings, what I am sure at this point is this must be the worst example of competitions between IT companies ever!
- dennyabraham 16y agoThere must be a mistranslation in the article or embellishment on the part of the involved companies. How can QQ have a billion active users? When last I saw, there were only 350M internet users in China. Is it possible that the majority of their userbase is extranational? Or are they counting total accounts created?
- jhancock 16y agomy source tells me the qq user base is around 600M
- dknet 16y agothat's because very often a person has more than one QQ for different usages(working or personal), and a lot companies use QQ as a tool, aside from tel, for their customer service, actually the largest social network in China did not rest in renren but QQ
- dknet 16y agoso the difference on numbers of users between the two companies is not that big considering only one 360 safe can be run on a PC while it's normal to run several QQ accounts at the same time on PCs or other devices like cellphones and tablets, but their implications are undoubtedly tremendous