Marc Violo Product Manager of QQi said, “As one of the most influential Chinese technology companies, Tencent has decided to challenge its most successful product QQ, by creating a multi-language version offering a bridge to any non-Chinese user to connect with the existing 600 million active Chinese language accounts. “One year after the release of the beta version targeting foreigners living in China, QQi currently already has over 2 million registered accounts with an average of 170,000 daily unique users in and out of China. We are now very excited to announce QQi 1.0 and make it available to a larger international audience.”

    Apart from its core IM functionality, QQi offers its users a variety of free apps to explore anything China-related from job opportunities, news or language learning tools, events, travel deals, directories and videos. The service has already partnered with a range of large local partners, such as the travel portal Ctrip.com or local news paper ChinaDaily.com and will integrate more third party apps from local and global players in the future.

    In addition to the IM client, Tencent’s QQi will launch its first English language social networking site early 2011, integrated into the existing information portal www.imqq.com and seamlessly synchronized with the QQi IM.
    Mandira Srivastava is a TMCnet contributor. She works as a full-time writer, ghostwriter and blogger, and has more than two years of experience in print and Web media. She has also worked on company brochures, website content and product descriptions, as well as proofreading and editing content.

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