IBM teams up with Tencent to penetrate Chinese cloud market

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Tencent Cloud is likely to be entirely powered by IBM.

IBM and Tencent have today announced that they plan to work closely together to extend the latter's public cloud to the enterprise (presumably the bulging Chinese market).

Tencent is one of China's largest service providers with nearly one billion Chinese users; its online portfolio is primarily a consumer one and includes QQ, a popular instant messaging service, Weibo, a rival to Twitter, TenPay, which competes with PayPal, Qzone, a Facebook competitor.

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