Currently, only in Shenzhen city opened this businesss. Sina found that tencent used the 2nd level domain named QQ tuan. Login from tuan.qq.com, Sina found default page was QQ tuan Shenzhen site, while Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing etc. have no this business yet.

QQ tuan business model is no difference from other main stream sites, all trade large orders with low price. Insiders analyzed QQ tuan would develop users taking advantage of its low dataflow, but before the end of this article, QQ tuan did not seem to be very hot.

Furthermore, Ganji Net launched group shopping web navigation page. News said domestic life classified site-Ganji.com announced to officially enter group shopping market, launching group shopping sites navigation rss page.

It is known that, Ganji’s Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou portal all have “group shopping navigation” entrance, which can be used to view all group shopping sites and goods information in each city.

Since its spin-off from Time Warner, AOL has been trying to remake itself and is currently selling its non-core assets, including ICQ.

ICQ, whose name derived from the homophonic phrase “I seek you”, has 42 million active users. Among them, 18.5 million are from Russia, said Wednesday’s Beijing News.

Tencent’s QQ service, a Chinese answer to ICQ, is known for its reigning popularity on the Chinese mainland, which is reported to have over 300 million registered accounts.

Source : Konaxis

The important achievements by this Hong Kong-listed private enterprise in the field of instant messaging triggered a broad discussion inside the industry.

According to Tencent official data, on 19:52:58 of the March 5, 2010, the number of QQ concurrent users exceeded 100 million, and became one of the important tools for daily communication in China.
Tencent today produced specifically feature to celebrate for this, and interviewed dozens of Internet industry people to make interpretation of it.

Tencent released the first version in 1999, called OICQ, and later changed its name to QQ, and in rapid development in the following later to bypass the competitors to become the first major instant messaging software in China, and in 2004 was listed in Hong Kong.

Currently the largest shareholder of Tencent is media companies in Africa-Naspers, which owns 35.2% shares of Tencent.

IResearch used Graveyard to carry out analysis for Ali Wangwang and found out: QQ and AliWangwang have the most extensive coverage, followed by MSN and Fetion.

IResearch report: QQ and Ali Wangwang are most extensively used IMs in China

IResearch report shows that in 2008 Q1-Q4 the number of users of Chinese IM products displays a three-level differentiation. QQ and Ali Wangwang have the most extensive quarterly coverage number: 0.17 billion, 70 million people; MSN and Fetion form the second echelon: 40 million and 50 million; other IM products, covering a relatively small number, into the third echelon.

The IM users growth for the whole year shows that Ali Wangwang has the the fastest growth: by the end of 2008, its number of users is over 100 million. Next to the QQ, it becomes China’s second IM which has more than 100 million users.