{"id":17341,"date":"2018-10-04T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:23:52","slug":"tencent-has-pumped-billions-into-300-companies-heres-what-its-really-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17341","title":{"rendered":"Tencent has pumped billions into 300 companies. Here&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>WeChat owner Tencent is more than just one of the world&#8217;s biggest internet companies, it&#8217;s also a major investor in businesses around the globe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the past 10 years, the Chinese tech firm has plowed billions of dollars into more than 300 companies \u2014 from traditional retailers to electric-car companies \u2014 according to Crunchbase, which tracks funding for private companies. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The investments have long raised questions about Tencent&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=TCEHY\">TCEHY<\/a>) strategy, especially when they target industries that appear unrelated to its main businesses of gaming and social media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)WeChat owner Tencent is more than just one of the world&#8217;s biggest internet companies, it&#8217;s also a major investor in businesses around the globe.In the past 10 years, the Chinese tech firm has plowed billions of dollars into more than 300 companies \u2014 from traditional retailers to electric-car companies \u2014 according to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}