![]() ![]() Now that we’ve learned what subtext is, here are 5 techniques you can use to add it to your story. What they really mean to say will be conveyed through subtext: unspoken words hidden “in between the lines.” Now do you see what really went on in the scene? You probably also recognized an interaction that happens all the time, in real life. Just like in real life, your human characters will never say what they really mean. Then, Girl shakes her head.īoy says: “ Okay, but you’re the one who’s missing out. ![]() ”īoy asks: “ Can I be your sugar daddy at least?”īoy winks. This is how the scene would read if there were NO SUBTEXT, and everyone in the scene was saying exactly what they meant to say: Now, if you take a quick, superficial look at this scene, you might conclude that not much happened in it, right? WRONG. A WHOLE LOT happened. It’s just that it’s hard to catch because it all happened “in between the lines.” So, you wouldn’t be interested in going to a free concert? What Is Subtext?The best way to explain it is with an example:īoy asks: “Oh-what music do you like then?”īoy says: “Oh. Instead, we speak in subtext. The beauty of subtext is that it makes human interaction fascinating and, likewise, it’s what will make your story worth reading. If you, as a writer, can fundamentally understand the importance of subtext, I guarantee that you’ll see the benefit in adding it to you story. Ollin’s blog is a Top Ten Blogs for Writers winner, and, as I’m sure you’ll agree once you’ve read his post, he knows his stuff.Ībout 90% of the time, we human beings don’t say what we mean to say. Then, give each character some reason why they can’t articulate it.Today we’ve invited Ollin Morales to clue us in about subtext–thank goodness, because while I know what it is, I’ve never understood how to add it to a story without confusing the readers and myself. The best way to start implementing subtext in a screenplay is to write out what every character wants. But there’s a few simple ways to get started. Now that we’ve defined what subtext is with examples from cinema history, let’s look at how to use it.Īs with most technical aspects of screenwriting, applying subtext is often easier said than done. Bring Subtext In How to write subtext in a screenplay This is a drama-reduced version of the same story. ![]() Eventually, he will be able to comply with the things that those close to him want. He can rely on the support of his wife and father and reconcile his past. Now let’s look at if the guilt stems from being a bad friend. If Brick is not attracted to his wife, then this creates obvious drama. His wife wants a child and to be sexually wanted. If Brick is struggling with guilt over his sexual identity, this changes the dynamic between him and his wife and him and his father. Let’s compare how this narrative difference applies to other characters. It also lowers the tension and stakes between the characters. So how does the subtext of the screenplay differ from that of the stage script? For starters, it’s less nuanced. ![]()
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![]() Had never played that much defense, either, as the team rotated through defensive slide after defensive slide prior to the sprints. Gigi was ahead of everyone, as she always was.Ī post player in the mold of her Grit and Grind father, MacKenly had never run that much in her life. MacKenly recalls one day being near the back of the pack, trailing alongside Altobelli. She and her teammates ran up and down each one at the Mamba Sports Academy, which has since dropped “Mamba” from its name out of respect for Kobe’s legacy, then ran a little more on the court, at Kobe’s behest, sprinting around the perimeter. Gigi, like her dad once did for his teammates, set the tone for all of them: She needed to be first in anything. They’d wear stone-cold mean mugs right before a game, smirking at other teams who were giggling and not taking warm-up as seriously. Not because of who some of their fathers were, but because of how they played. They commanded respect when they walked in the gym. ![]() Basketball made them laugh and cry and scream and feel alive. Gigi ran point, MacKenly Randolph dominated the post, Altobelli was a strong leader and floor general, and the rest of the roster also had plenty of game. The Mambas featured some of the most talented girls’ basketball players in California. She cherishes the memories, shutting them out when they hurt too much but inviting them back when she feels ready. “He always talked about some day the ball is going to stop bouncing, and you want to leave your mark on the world in other ways, too, so people will remember you,” she says. To think about what you want your legacy to be, how you want people to know you. She remembers how Kobe taught her to think beyond basketball. She remembers how Kobe had texted her and asked her for her shoe size the week before the accident, because he was going to send her a fresh pair. She has a shrine in her bedroom for Kobe: his jersey, his shoes, a signed basketball, and their photos together. The 15-year-old has a “Mamba Mentality” tattoo on the outside of her left foot that she got after the accident, reminding her to lock in before the game. “I was so blown away by his knowledge of the game, and how he wanted to share that with all the girls.” “I was shocked when he took me under his wing like he did, not being on his team,” Shamblin says. They’d challenge each other to one-on-one when the court was clear. ![]() They became friends Kobe felt she had that “it” factor. He called her “Lucky Lefty.” Kobe started watching Brooklyn train at Mamba Sports Academy, the Thousand Oaks training facility he cofounded in 2018, where the Storm sometimes practiced, and would come to her games. She played on rival team Cal Storm but considered Gigi a little sister, Kobe a mentor. “They touched the world,” Zach Randolph says.īrooklyn Shamblin was one of those people. For those still playing on the team, it’s a raw and painful memory. They were on their way to a Mamba basketball game that morning. It’s been one year since the tragic helicopter crash took the lives of nine members of the Mambas community: Kobe, 41, and Gigi, 13 Alyssa Altobelli, 14, and her parents, John, 56, and Keri Altobelli, 46 teammate Payton Chester, 13, and her mother, Sarah Chester, 45 assistant coach Christina Mauser, 38 and pilot Ara Zobayan, 50. ![]() The types of memories that players and coaches from the team formerly known as the Mambas relive, as if by playing them in their minds they can somehow preserve those who were lost. These are the types of memories that remain. We don’t wanna bother you!” Moorhouse told Kobe. Moorhouse didn’t want to impose or act like he was trying to take advantage of Kobe: “No, man, it’s really OK. Matt Moorhouse, Santiago’s head coach, couldn’t believe it when Kobe offered to attend one of the team’s practices. He once spent several hours teaching Santiago High’s boys’ and girls’ basketball coaches the intricacies of the triangle offense, carefully explaining to the staff how it could even be run against a zone. He was trying to forge strong bonds within the basketball community. Giving back to the game he loved so much gave Kobe joy: traveling to high schools in the Orange County area to sit in on practices, befriending local coaches whom he had no connection to. ![]() He recorded a video for a local high school girls’ coach in Orange County who had been diagnosed with cancer. He invited some to work out with WNBA players he knew. Remember, you have to flash higher if you want to turn, catch, and face more effectively, he’d tell them. I was just thinking about that one move you did the other day. He texted many of them with advice, randomly dropping in little nuggets. He mentored players on rival eighth grade AAU teams and high schools. Kobe’s love for girls’ basketball extended far beyond his own team. ![]() ![]() ![]() These have open finger holes that have to be covered. ![]() Kids who have trouble with fine motor skills might find this tricky. This is the ability to move fingers quickly and independently on different keys. This provides options for kids with balance and coordination issues. It can be played sitting down or standing up. Electric guitars are somewhat easier to play.Ī guitar can feel heavy, but you can add a strap to help support the guitar’s weight and bulk. This can be helpful for kids who sway or fidget while standing.Īcoustic guitars require firm picking and fingering techniques. These instruments can feel heavy and bulky, so keep your child’s size and strength in mind when considering them.Ĭello is played sitting down. The horizontal movement of the bowing arm may be easier for some kids with who struggle with gross motor skills. The player must reach up and down a longer fingerboard. The strings on these larger instruments take greater strength to push down. ![]() But there is more space to maneuver when playing. These also require strong fine motor skills to hold the bow, pluck strings and place fingers precisely. String instruments require (and can help develop) a gross motor skill called “bilateral integration.” This is the ability to use both sides of the body together in a coordinated way. Fingers need to be placed carefully for the notes to be in tune. Kids need to hold the bow precisely and sometimes pluck the strings. Because of this, finding viola teachers or cello teachers is relatively easy.īased on everything I just wrote, I’m pretty convinced I should have played the viola, instead of cello! Good thing it’s never too late to learn and you can always learn faster with private music lessons in your home.These require strong fine motor skills. People who play either violin or viola can easily learn the other one since they are so similar, which makes them much more versatile. The great thing about playing viola or bass is that fewer people do so you have a better chance of doing well in chair tests and auditions like region and all-state. Competitive AdvantageĮveryone plays violin and cello these days. The violas play harmonies, cellos typically go between support, harmony, and sometimes melodies, and basses are usually on supportive bass lines. The first chair first violin player is called the Concertmaster and he tunes and helps lead the group. The violins are typically the melody and are the leaders of the orchestra. Each one also holds their bow a different way. Bass can be played sitting or standing and it also uses an endpin for balance. Cello is played sitting down and in between the players knees, with the end pin stuck in the floor for balance. Violin and viola are played propped up between the shoulder and chin. Bass sounds an octave lower than the cello. ![]() Cello can play from C2-C6 and bass can play from C2-C5. Viola also has a deeper tone than the violin. Viola can play from C3-E6, so slightly lower than the violin and not nearly as high. Violin has the super high notes all the way to A7 and can play as low as G3. Violin strings are much shorter and thinner than bass strings which are several feet long and thick in diameter. Small girls can play bass and big guys can play the violin (and even better with private violin lessons)! Strings and Range of each String Instrumentīasses are tuned in 4ths (E, A, D, G) and Violins, Violas, and Cellos are tuned in 5ths (A, D, G, C). All instruments come in several sizes to match up with even the tiniest kids. You can actually read on MusicCritic about artists who all started with no clue and became musicians who developed and mastered their craft. The important thing to realize about instrument size is that it doesn’t matter how big or small the student is. Viola is slightly bigger than the violin and looks exactly the same despite the subtle size difference. Bass is the biggest, then cello, then viola, and finally violin. Most people can recognize each instrument based on their sizes. Smallest to tallest! Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass Whether your 6 th grader is trying to choose an instrument for her elective or you’re just curious about what distinguishes one from the other, here are some obvious and not-so-obvious differences: Size -Violin Viola Cello Bass Meanwhile, Daisy Slots brings a new musical theme that uses violin and bass for newly published games. All 4 are made from the same wood and have many of the same parts but there are more differences than there are similarities. The four main string instruments of an orchestra are violin, viola, cello, and bass. ![]() ![]() He or she makes all updates with one atomic commit to such repository, and they are distributed automatically on the server between the project and the shared libraries. If you do an initial submodule update, commit in that submodule directory without creating a branch to work in, and then run git submodule update again from. It’s similar to Git Submodules, but has a very important difference: the repositories are nested on the server’s side.įor the end-user, it’s just a regular repository, with all code needed for his or her project (and nothing except that). While dozens of engineers struggle online in the monorepo/multirepo battles, another approach is possible – Git X-Modules. ![]() When you do the commit, the index will update the commit string for the submodule.
![]() ![]() On the source Mac (the one that won’t boot), press the power button then immediately hold T and wait to boot into Target Disk Mode. Now make sure that the Mac you want to share from (the source) is switched off. This tutorial provides an effective Mac SD card recovery solution to recover deleted files from SD card, including photos, videos, music files, documents, etc. Hopefully this helped you outGet 10 Off iFootage Gear. ![]() ![]() We provide SD card data recovery services where our experts recover data using advanced tools and techniques. If you want to perform an SD card recovery Mac, you are in the right place. In this video I show you how to open and import AVCHD files onto a Mac. Try the free demo of Stellar Photo Recovery software to see if you can recover the disappeared photos from the SD card. Click ‘ Browse ’ in the dialog box to select a location to save the recovered pictures. Preview and select the required photos and click ‘ Recover ’. Download and install iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac. First, connect both Macs using a Firewire or Thunderbolt cable (this won’t work with a standard USB cable). Stellar ® Data Recovery offers a wide range of SD card recovery solutions to help you recover lost or deleted data, such as photos, videos, music, etc. The software lists the missing photos on SD card. Steps to recover lost pictures from a corrupted SD card on Mac: Here, I'd like to recommend you the iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac, it is professional, 100% secure, reliable, and easy to use. Pick up the best recovery software for SD card to rescue your lost pictures. If unluckily, your SD card gets corrupted, you should recover data from it ASAP and then fix it to make it usable again. A corrupted SD card is accompanied by some symptoms such as the SD card is not detected, read/write issues, connection issues, the pictures disappearing from the SD card, wrong SD card capacity, and so on. SD card corruption error may be triggered when the SD card has been used on multiple types of devices or has been physically removed from a device while a file was being accessed or transferred. There is a great chance to recover pictures from the corrupted SD card with professional data recovery software. Stop using the corrupted SD card immediately when such a situation occurs. The not readable SD card or unreadable SD card pictures on your Mac are symptoms when the SD card gets corrupted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notably, with the emphasis on the low end, there is no sign of rumble, which is often associated with noise and vibration from the motor arrangement, and this is a positive observation.įor a 45 RPM record, I chose Ed Sheeran’s multiply which is a double album. ![]() I will add the bass presentation from the Pro-Ject is excellent with the REL supporting the Kudos speakers. The only problem with a 10” double album, is I’m up and down every 10 or 12 minutes or so flipping the vinyl over in a trance. My favourite track, The Pyramid Song, is towering, wide and emotional. It has a clean delivery too in Packt Like Sardines. Turning to my 10” copy double LP copy of Radiohead’s Amnesiac, I immediately have a sense of an energetic presentation from the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO. The tonearm on the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO is very aesthetic indeed I’m still using the stunning Tellurium Q Ultra Black II speaker cable into the Kudos Cardea C10 standmounted speakers and I am using a REL T/5i to support them in the low end. With the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO, I’m using a Musical Fidelity MM phono stage into the brilliant T+A PA 2000 R integrated amplifier. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO turntable is retailing at £449.00 with Henley Audio. The turntable itself is 415 x 118 x 320 mm, and with the dust cover open 415 x 365 x 405mm (W x H x D). There are several colour choices and finishes, satin golden yellow and the high gloss red finish stand out to me. ![]() There is a high quality feel to the satin blue steel plinth that I have. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO is boxed cleverly, and you are immediately reassured by the well-packed lid and protection for the preassembled tonearm that everything is thought of. There is also a clear plastic dust cover included that slots on the plinth elegantly. Pro-Ject claim this delivers a “quieter and noiseless operation with less wow and flutter”.įinally, the phono output cable is detachable (and therefore upgradeable?) with a grounding wire alongside it. The metal-based platter is heavy at 1.7kg, it features a thermoplastic elastomer damper on the inside rim that creates a flywheel effect. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO has three big metal feet The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO can turn to 78 RPM if required, with a belt change. On the front underside is an ON (33.3 RPM) – OFF – ON (45 RPM) switch that controls the speed, and this clever idea avoids changing the belt to adjust the speed. ![]() The motor for the turntable is suspended below the plinth to prevent mechanical noise transference to the cartridge and tonearm assembly. The metal feet have a felt pad on the underside. The turntable is mounted on three adjustable circular metal feet making levelling a simple task. The carbon fibre offers a stiff but lightweight tonearm for the cartridge, claim Pro-Ject. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO has a classic turntable look with the single piece 8.6” carbon fibre tonearm looking every inch the part. Pro-Ject has a century-old relationship with Ortofon and the turntable is supplied with their well-established Ortofon 2M Red moving magnet cartridge. Owner, I have unboxed the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO noting the differences in design but reflecting that the two are similar in price and tactile operation, though they are an audio generation apart. Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO with Ortofon 2M Red cartridge ![]() ![]() ![]() As it is, I don’t have anything to give but to send prayers to you that God heals you completely.Ģ0. How I wish I was just there staying by your side right now. I know that God and his angels are there with you. Please forgive me for my unavailability at this time. I know and can feel how you feel right now. Only if I have the willpower, I would have taken your pain and sickness away myself, but I have God and he will take it all away and heal you totally. Just know that I will always be here for you. You being ill is like losing the best of me. I have missed your friendliness, our togetherness. ![]() I am sending this healing text message to pray for your complete healing and that God should lay his hands on you. You mean the whole world to me, so is your happiness and well-being as well. I also told him to heal you completely because you are a very strong person who does not deserve to be sick at all. So I sent this message to you that God should guide and protect you today and always. I pray the hands of God touch you and you are healed already. I miss you everyday, and I know it is because you are not feeling too great. I miss our plays, the fun times and the naughty you. get well soon my love, may God be with you.ġ1. The Lord will perfect all that is left to be perfected. Please have a good rest, use your drugs and drink a lot of water. You are the might God the healer, please help my love.ġ0. Dear Lord, please lay your healing hands on my love. Your body is a temple of God and sickness should never have a place to stay in there. I prophesy that all elements of sickness be washed out of your body. I know that you are healed already because God told us to prophesy and whatever will say with our mouths will definitely come to pass. Speedy recovery my darling, please get well soon.Ĩ. I pray that the breeze blows the freshness of a new day on you. I pray that wind carts away all the elements of sickness in your body. On this lovely day, I pray that the sun shines on you and protects you through the day. I am sending you my best wishes and I sincerely pray that you get well soon.ħ. The blessings of God will never depart from you. I pray that God’s tight hands will protect you, and the angels will never leave you behind. Happiness will always surround you and the affection of the almighty will never leave you. The sky will send amazing showers of blessings, the road will be easy for you to step on. I pray everyday that this time soon shall pass and you will be well again. I do hope you are being taken care of very well over there. Be rest assured that I am there with you in the spirit. I am sending you all the comfort you need at this time. May you be completely healed and made completely whole again.ģ. You will get better I’m sure, and my prayers are with you as well. Sleep well too, because it is when you sleep that God perfects the healing in your body. This morning I asked God to please send the breeze of complete healing your way. You can share as much as you like or want.ġ. The prayers also make great additions to birthday cards, sympathy gifts, or social media captions, if you struggle to think of the right thing to say at times.Check out the collection of healing text messages that I have here. We’ve covered the gamut with prayers for a friend’s happiness, prayers for protection, guidance, and more, so you have an idea of where to begin. You can use the prayers as inspiration for your own personal message or read them verbatim during your next heart-to-heart with God. Write down these prayers or save them on your phone so they are always nearby - you never know when you might need one. ![]() Add one or more of them to your daily prayer routine, or share them the next time you meet up with your friend for a chat. We’ve collected 23 of the best prayers for a friend to say the next time someone close to you is struggling. Even if they don’t believe in a higher power, it’s worth sending positive thoughts their way. Whether they are grieving the loss of a loved one, going through a difficult separation, dealing with depression, or experiencing another tough situation, a prayer for a friend is always worth saying. In times of great need, it can be difficult to know how to best support a friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() All I know to do now is take my past and use it to help others. That said, I can’t help but regret the time wasted chasing after a myth. It is important for me to make clear that my life as a Christian was not one long slog of drudgery. I had many delightful experiences, including marrying Polly, my beautiful wife of almost forty-five years. I met a lot of wonderful people during my Christian days - and a lot of mean, nasty, judgmental, Jesus-loving sons-of-bitches too. Let me be clear, what I lament about the past is the wasted time, not necessarily the experiences. In many ways, I am still a pastor a man who wants to help others. Through writing, I am able to embrace my past for what it is and turn it into words that I hope are helpful to others. At the same time, he encouraged me to look to the present and future and use my past to benefit others. My past, he told me, is very much a part of who I am. He wisely encouraged me to be honest with and embrace the past. I sought out a professional secular counselor who helped me (mostly) come to terms with my past. Finally, I realized that lamenting the past was going to psychologically destroy me. There were times when I would dwell on these questions, bringing myself to tears. How could you have been so stupid, Bruce? How could you have been so blind? How could you inflict such harmful nonsense on your wife and children? How could you lead thousands of other people down a path that goes nowhere that left them with lives they too wasted serving a mythical God? Just thinking about this would bring waves of self-judgment and depression. ![]() From their days in the nursery forward, Evangelicals are taught that they are worthless, vile, broken sinners in need of saving that the only place salvation can be found is in the Christian church that only through the merit and work of a God-man named Jesus - who is the second part of a triune deity - can humans be “saved” that all other religions but Christianity are false and lead to an eternity of torture in a God-created Lake of Fire that until you believe this message and put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, your life is, to put it simply, a waste.įor those who have exited stage left from Christianity, it is not uncommon for them to look back on their past and ruefully say, what a waste. When I deconverted fourteen years ago, I struggled with the fact that I had wasted five decades of my life chasing after a lie. It’s the only religion they have ever known. Most Evangelicals are born into Christianity. Perhaps what is really going on here is a long con. It seems, then, at least to me, that a life of “wasted” years is the norm for believers and unbelievers alike that life is only “wasted” when measured by the words of an ancient Bronze-age religious text. Do better, they tell believers yet try as they might, those pastors - even with much grace and faith - fail. Oh, they preach a good line, abusing congregants for not measuring up to the Biblical standard for a life of meaning, purpose, and direction. And their pastors, by the way, do the same. They spend a few hours on Sundays (and maybe on Wednesdays) having preachers tell them what life is all about, only to spend the rest of that week’s 168 hours living as if they didn’t hear a word their pastors said. Evangelicals yearn for Christ-centered lives, but “life” tends to get in the way. With their lips, Evangelicals say these things are true, but how they live their day-to-day lives suggests that their lives are every bit as “wasted” as those of the unwashed, uncircumcised Philistines of the world. He is their e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.Įverything I mentioned in the previous paragraph can be found in the Bible. To Evangelicals, Jesus is their BFF their lover their confidante their therapist their physician and their spouse. Everything pales - including families, careers, houses, and lands - when compared to Jesus. This is a life focused on what matters: meeting Jesus face to face in the sweet by and by. This, according to Evangelicals, is a life of meaning, purpose, and direction. Everything in this life and the life to come is about Jesus. ![]() Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Sacrifice your life, ambition, wants, desires, and dreams, giving them all to Jesus. In the eyes of Evangelicals, non-Christians live lives of wasted years years that could be spent worshiping Jesus, praising Jesus, singing songs to Jesus, bowing in fealty and devotion to Jesus, giving money to Jesus, winning souls for Jesus, and doing good works - drum roll please - for the man, the myth, the legend, the one and only King of Kings, Lord of Lords, giver of life and death, the one true God, Jesus H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among human-backed transcription services, we favored those that claimed to be at least 99% accurate. We also researched services’ self-reported accuracy and other people’s experience with them. Readability: The single most important factor in choosing a transcription service is the readability of the resulting transcript, so we checked samples for grammar and spelling.Because Temi is quick and relatively inexpensive (at 25¢ per minute of audio), it’s a great choice for anyone who is paying for their own transcriptions, doesn’t expect them to be error-free, and doesn’t mind doing some cleanup work themselves. (We recommend using a company that employs human transcriptionists if your recordings have noise, feature a non-American accent, include speech impediments, or otherwise pose a challenge.) Transcripts arrive in minutes, and the built-in text editor lets you easily clean up the completed transcript-a necessity since even the top AI-based services, like Temi, get only about 75% of words right at best. In our tests, Temi transcripts were the easiest to read among the AI-based options, with acceptable grammar and word accuracy even when our audio contained jargon or background noise. They do not return results that are perfect enough that you can expect to copy a quote without going back and checking the actual content of the audio. AI-based transcription services are useful for finding a specific place in or quickly skimming the contents of an audio recording. ![]() ![]() Tencent promptly responded by obstructing Taobao's download hyperlink and redirecting users to a webpage that displays the message: "The Taobao website you are attempting to access has been obstructed. Therefore, the Taobao links opened in WeChat could not be opened directly, nor could it jump directly to the Taobao app. If the user entered the account password on this page, then the user's account password would be stolen. In November 2013, WeChat users, who could not visit Taobao’s website via a link in WeChat, were led to a download page for the Taobao app and thus could no longer buy commodities from Taobao on WeChat.Īt the time, Alibaba stated that this was for security reasons: WeChat's browser could not distinguish between the real Taobao page and the phishing page. Soon afterwards, it banned Taobao sellers from posting WeChat QR codes. In July 2013, Alibaba announced the suspension of WeChat-related third-party application services and cut all access to WeChat data. (Alibaba's) Taobao and (Tencent's) WeChat had been blocking each other for eight years.Īccording to Xinhua News Agency, the blocking of Taobao and WeChat originated in 2013. ![]() In terms of revenue and net profit, in Q1 2023, Tencent's total revenue exceeded CNY 149.99 billion, lower than American Internet giant Meta's USD 28.65 billion (CNY 205.55 billion) Tencent's net profit of CNY 32.54 billion exceeded Meta's USD 7.23 billion (CNY 19.57 billion). Its major revenue includes value-added business, online advertising, financial technology & corporate services, and other businesses. ![]() Tencent is one of the world's leading Internet technology companies, with businesses covering social media(core business), finance, entertainment, consulting, etc., with products including WeChat, QQ, Tencent Video, Tencent Maps, Tencent Gaming, Tencent Meeting and others. In terms of total revenue and net profit, in Q1 2023, Alibaba's total revenue exceeded CNY 868.69 billion, slightly lower than American E-commerce giant Amazon's USD 127.36 billion (CNY 911.53 billion) Alibaba's net profit of CNY 65.57 billion exceeded Amazon's USD 3.17 billion (CNY 22.70 billion). Its businesses cover a wide range of areas including China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Digital Media and Entertainment, Innovative Initiatives and Others, with products such as Taobao, TMALL, AliExpress, YOUKU, Quark, Alibaba Health, etc. In 1998, Ma Huateng created the instant messaging service QQ for Tencent in Shenzhen, which now has over 1 billion users for its games, communications, and social services.Īlibaba is one of the world's leading online marketplace and business exchange communities. In 1999, Jack Ma founded Alibaba for USD 60,000 and grew it into China's foremost e-commerce platform. ![]() The constant "separation and integration" between them has garnered significant market attention.Īlibaba and Tencent have been competitors since China's Internet industry boomed. ![]() These two Chinese tech giants are undoubtedly the top Internet companies in China in terms of market capitalization, profitability and business ecosystem. Mas cannot easily be avoided, either by consumers, businesses, investors, or competitors. The business ecosystems built by the two Mr. Notwithstanding, it is impossible to talk about digital business in China without focusing on either Alibaba, Tencent, or both. The Chinese Internet industry is experiencing continuous growth and evolution, with the emergence of outstanding players such as Meituan (Chinese: 美团), Douyin Group (Chinese: 抖音集团), Jingdong (Chinese: 京东), and Pinduoduo (Chinese: 拼多多). ![]() |
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