Monetization of Tencent’s WeChat is on the way.

Check it out here: http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/11/20 .

That should roll a few extra cents into Naspers coffers in coming years. Quite a few, I guess. Maybe even rands….millions and millions of them.

The Chinese internet concern Tencent, in which Naspers holds roughly a one-third stake, got a huge positive write-up in Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) this morning. [Read on]

There is always fire where there is smoke. I refer to this post of mine (dated 18/3/2010) and this Fin24 article (22/6/2010).

Tencent, the Chinese social media group in which Cape Town-based media group Naspers holds a roughly 33% stake, and two Russian media companies, are competing for control of ICQ, the chat service AOL put on the market in November last year. The Russian companies are Profmedia and Digital Sky Technologies (DST), reported Financial Times Deutschland (FTD). [Read on]

On 20 March I reported about the fantastic 2008 results of Tencent (look here), a Chinese internet company in which Naspers holds just over 36%. In the first quarter of 2009 Tencent impressed yet again.   [Read on]

Judged on the annual results for 2008, Tencent Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed provider of internet, mobile and telecommunications services to China in which Naspers holds 36.1% (via MIH), should give the Naspers bottom line a much stronger boost this time around than it did last year.   [Read on]