JAKARTA - The world's leading business and economic media Financial Times has just released the top 10 most valuable companies in the world. In the list, corporations from the United States (U.S.) are still the majority followed later by business entities from Asia.
It said the top spot was occupied by telecommunications company Apple, which followed Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Amazon and Alphabet.
One interesting thing is the inclusion of the name of a Hong Kong-based technology company, Tencent. The business conglomerate that oversees a wide variety of virtual applications and games ranks seventh on the list with an estimated valuation of about 750 billion U.S. dollars.
If the figure is converted to rupiah at today's exchange rate of Rp14,151, it will be obtained equivalent to Rp10.6 trillion aka Rp10,643 trillion!
To be known, Tencent Group is one of the strategic investors of PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa or better known as Gojek.
In 2019, Tencent and Google officially invested no less than US$1 billion or rp14 trillion to Gojek for business development.
Furthermore, in mid-2020 Tencent continued to invest in nadiem Makarim's start-up. However, this time, it was not obtained information on how much money Tencent had invested in Gojek.
Tencent Holdings Vice President Jeffrey Li in a written statement said it was interested in collaborating with Gojek because the company is directly involved in advancing small segmentation (MSMEs) businesses in Indonesia.
"We are proud to strengthen collaboration with Gojek through increasing the amount of investment and we look forward to continuing cooperation in the future," he said as quoted from Gojek's official website on Monday, May 10.
Similarly, Gojek Co-CEO Kevin Aluwi added that Gojek has a strong attachment to support the growth of MSMEs. This is said by Kewin as a special concern that helps many parties.
"Now with the best technology companies in the world as partners, we believe that we can continue to provide world-class products and services that are unique to all parties in the Gojek ecosystem," he said.
Tencent itself is a Chinese multinational company founded in 1998. The corporation is the parent entity of various subsidiaries and has a wide range of popular products in the community, such as Tencent instant messaging QQ, WeChat, and joox music app.
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