US dominates BBC list of net entrepreneurs who made it
The BBC has released a report looking at the power of the Internet. As part of a new TV series ‘SuperPower’ it identifies the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by Nielsen and incorporates Forbes magazine‘s latest internet billionaires.
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The 26 people on the rich list are dominated by US citizens, accounting for 15 names and lead by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google. The richest non-American was Masayoshi Son, the Japanese head of internet and telecom firm SoftBank. Interestingly the most dominant nation following the Americans were five Chinese nationals led by the little-known Ma Huateng who runs China’s most popular online chat service.
The Nielson survey lists the top 100 companies has been put into graphic representations
across five categories: portals/search, online portals, social networks, retail site, news/media and by country.
Naturally sectors are dominated by the usual suspects: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay.
The data covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010.
I’ve always wanted to know who the most influential people behind the web are.
One specific statement really attracted my attention in your article.
In one part of the article, it stated that, “Interestingly the most dominant nation following the Americans were five Chinese nationals led by the little-known Ma Huateng who runs China’s most popular online chat service.”
I know that the Chinese are relatively new compared to other nationalities when it comes to the internet. Yet, they came second. Is there an area in the web that China is more dominant that the U.S?
I searched the net for some answers and found this article from the New York Times -> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/business/worldbusiness/05iht-virtual.4474314.html?_r=1
The article states that, “Indeed, no other Internet company in the world — not even Google — has achieved the kind of dominance in its home market that Tencent commands in China, where its all-in-one packaging of entertainment offerings and mobile instant-messaging service, “QQ,” http://www.qq.com, has reached more than 100 million users, nearly 80 percent of the market.”
With this information, Will there come a time that China will be the dominant hand in the web and what will be its impact to the world?