Separated at Girth
Facebook Looks in Mirror and Sees Tencent
While different businesses, they have much in common.
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Facebook and China's Tencent are entrenched among the global technology elite, and they are more alike than at first glance.
Yes, the two companies are quite different businesses. Facebook Inc. makes nearly all of its $36 billion in annual revenue from selling advertising to companies eager to reach the 2 billion people who use its internet hangouts each month.