{"id":35491,"date":"2019-03-15T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35491"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:23:46","slug":"how-esports-became-a-big-business-for-razer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35491","title":{"rendered":"How eSports became a big business for Razer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Singapore (CNN Business)<\/cite>When Min-Liang Tan started a business 13 years ago to make gear for playing video games, he faced a lot of doubters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I heard all these people saying, &#8216;Gaming? Isn&#8217;t that child&#8217;s play?'&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one wanted to get into gaming.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Today, his Singapore-based company <span>Razer<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=RAZFF&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">RAZFF<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> is one of the biggest providers of gaming hardware and software in the world, with a market value of about $1.6 billion. A big part of its success came from getting in early on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/27\/us\/esports-what-is-video-game-professional-league-madden-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">eSports<\/a>, an industry where hardcore gamers compete for money and fans.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore (CNN Business)When Min-Liang Tan started a business 13 years ago to make gear for playing video games, he faced a lot of doubters.&#8221;I heard all these people saying, &#8216;Gaming? Isn&#8217;t that child&#8217;s play?'&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one wanted to get into gaming.&#8221; Today, his Singapore-based company Razer (RAZFF) is one of the biggest providers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35491","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=35491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}