4. âS HISTORY
Year
Event
1998
Founded by Huateng Ma and Zhidong Zhang
1999
Launched instant messaging software OICQ
2001
Renamed OICQ to QQ. Reached 50 M users
2003
Launched QQ Game, Tencent TM
2004
IPO in Hongkong. QQ Game reached 1M users
2008
Reached 430 M users
2009
Over 400 patents
2013
100 B Market capitalization