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Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet portals, has recently launched its own version of Facebook Connect called QQ Login. Using this service, third party websites can now offer quick, hassle-free registration and login, while tapping the Internet giant’s existing 637 million QQ users. Users who are familiar with Facebook Connect need no introduction as QQ Login works pretty much the same. As explained in Tencent’sdeveloper website, the service enables users to use their QQ accounts to gain access to third party sites, greatly reducing the time it takes for users to register and login, and at the same time provides a real-time, seamless synchronization of user information and data....

Tencent, China’s largest and most used Internet service portal, launches a free Kik-like messaging app in China called“微信”or “micro-letters.” Micro-letters (loosely translated, but let’s call it that for our reader’s sake) is a free-to-download and use app for the iPhone. The website says that the Android and the Symbian versions will be released “in the near future.” Similar toKik, it lets the users search their contacts for other micro-letters users and they will automatically be added to your buddy list....

Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet portals, unveiled itsQ+desktop interface to officially launch the QQ Open Platform for native applications and those developed by third-party developers. Q+ will be accessible in the next release of Tencent’s QQ Instant Messenger, which lets applications access QQ’s 650 million active users. With a single click, users will be able to switch from their regular operating system to the Q+ interface, which functions much like a pseudo operating system of sorts....

This advertisement by Tencent was broadcasted during theSpring FestivalGala, which is one of the most expensive air times on Chinese television. The familiar story is something a lot of Chinese families go through and has moved thousands of overseas Chinese students to tears. The 2-minute long ad ofTencentQQ, China’s most popular instant messenger with 636.6 million active accounts, was aired primetime during China’s biggest event – the Spring Festival. A few years back, it would have been unthinkable to air an advertisement this long during China’s biggest festival but this is the digital age and we’re talking about the world’s biggest Internet population at 457 million....

Chinese Internet giantTencenthas recently partnered with Kingsoft, maker of the machine translation product PowerWord, and Youdao, Netease’s online dictionary, to bridge the language gap among users of its microblogging platform by developing a microblog translation tool, according toMarbridge Consulting. Currently in internal testing, Kingsoft’s PowerWord technology will be responsible for automatic translations to and from English, while Youdao will offer translations for Japanese and Korean. In addition to these two, Tencent is reportedly in talks with several other major translation companies to bring other languages into its microblogging platform....