
I was recently in China for a trip and walked by an internet cafe.
There, I saw at least half of all people in the cafe using a chat program with a little penguin.
Then when I used a local mobile phone it had the same logo and I got intrigued.
Finally I talked with the locals about this penguin and it all became clear, this is a huge success story that is seldom heard of in the West…
QQ is the third most popular instant messaging platform in the world, with 160M accounts in China alone. Do you know of anyone outside of China (and apparently South Africa) using it?

For the last 10 years I have been part of the digital media revolution as a