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Tencent Spreads Money Around the Tech World
Some investments have paid off, others not, and Snap is a wait-and-see.
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More corporations, ranging from General Motors Co. to Sesame Street, are investing in technology companies. Asia's tech titans are taking this investment splurge to a different level.
Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. disclosed Wednesday that China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. bought roughly $2 billion in Snap stock recently. Tencent put money into Snapchat years before its March IPO, but this was something else: a big, passive investment in a publicly traded company. It's hard to imagine Facebook Inc. or Google doing the same with a public tech company in Asia.1510239313423