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Mobile Gaming Industry Players Alibaba, Tencent, Tapinator Among Those Attracting Significant Interest Within The Sector(ACCESSWIRE (Canada) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Category: Baystreet Newswire Company: Seraphim Strategies ID: 420512 Date: Monday, September 22, 2014 Ticker: PK:TAPM Delray Beach, FL / September 22, 2014 / According to Bloomberg, Alibaba's (BABA) IPO could become the biggest ever (topping Agricultural Bank of China's $22 billion IPO in 2010) if underwriters make use of an option to buy more shares, which market observers expect they will. The event created quite a buzz among both individual and institutional investors, with most asking if Alibaba's stock is a long term buy. Alibaba certainly has key advantages over its chief rivals, most notably the fact that the company is located in China, where 560 million Internet users spend 20 hours per week online. Additionally, the sheer size of Alibaba allows significant cost savings with its large sales volumes. There are others, but investors must decide if these advantages are sustainable. Alibaba and Tencent (TCEHY) now boast such a massive share of the Chinese market that they are crossing borders, targeting developing markets and entering the U.S. in search of new sources of growth. In the last two years, Alibaba and Tencent have made major investments in 13 U.S. tech start-ups, mostly in mobile and e-commerce, in addition to smaller investments in numerous companies. Newly emerging mobile gaming company Tapinator, Inc. (TAPM) continues to quietly locate a wide-ranging customer base with its addicting lineup of games that make the most of their cross-genre and multi-generational appeal. Trading at 1.70 per share, the stock has trended upward the last few weeks, increasing approximately 70% in the past week alone, while its volume has surged; seems Wall St has taken notice of TAPM. And while investors in another industry giant, China Mobile Games and Entertainment (NASDAQ: CMGE) are seeing ups and downs over the past few weeks, they also see that CMGE's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 11.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 275.8%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share. About Tapinator: Tapinator (TAPM) is a developer and publisher of mobile games on the iOS, Google Play, and Amazon platforms. The Company focuses on operating its own titles, publishing properties where it holds substantial ownership positions, and making strategic investments into promising mobile companies. Tapinator's owned and operated portfolio includes over 50 mobile gaming titles that, collectively, have over 26 million users. A number of these titles have risen to the top of the mobile leaderboard charts and have been featured by the Apple, Google, and Amazon App Stores. Founded in 2013, Tapinator is headquartered in New York, with a major office located in Lahore, Pakistan. For a full listing of Tapinator game titles, please go to Tapinator.com. For further financial information on the Company, please go to OTCMarkets.com/stock/TAPM. For live updates, please like us on Facebook at facebook.com/Tapinator or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/Tapinator. About Tencent Holdings Ltd Tencent Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, provides Internet and mobile value-added services (VAS), online advertising services, and e-commerce transactions services to users in the People?s Republic of China, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through VAS, Online Advertising, e-Commerce Transactions, and Others segments. It provides online games, community value-added services, and applications across various Internet and mobile platforms; instant messaging services; value added services, such as club membership, avatar, personal spaces and communities, online music, dating services, etc.; and wireless Internet value added services, including short messaging service, multimedia messaging service, interactive voice response services, WAP, mobile IM service, and mobile games. The company also enables third-party game/application developers to host games/applications in its Internet platforms. Its online advertising services consist of display advertising on instant messaging clients, portals, social networks, and other platforms. The company?s e-commerce transactions business primarily include the sale of merchandise through its Internet platforms, including QQ Instant Messenger, WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay. In addition, it provides trademark licensing, software development, and software sale services. Tencent Holdings Limited was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the Peoples Republic of China. About Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as an online and mobile commerce company in the People?s Republic of China and internationally. It operates Taobao Marketplace, an online shopping destination; Tmall, a third-party platform for brands and retailers; Juhuasuan, a group buying marketplace; Alibaba.com, an online business-to-business marketplace that focuses on global trade among businesses; 1688.com, an online wholesale marketplace; and AliExpress, a consumer marketplace. The company also provides pay-for-performance (P4P) and display marketing services through its Alimama marketing technology platform; Taobao Ad Network and Exchange (TANX), a real-time online advertising exchange in China; and data management platform that allows participants on TANX to evaluate and select online advertising inventory using behavioral data, as well as data from browsing behavior and shopping history. In addition, it offers cloud computing services, including elastic computing, database services, and storage and large scale computing services through its Alibaba Cloud Computing platform; payment and escrow services for buyers and sellers; and develops and operates mobile Web browsers. The company provides its solutions primarily for businesses. Alibaba Group Holding Limited was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, the People?s Republic of China. About China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group Limited China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, develops and publishes mobile games primarily in the People?s Republic of China. It provides social games and single-player games for mobiles. The company also offers handset design solutions comprising printed circuit board with operating system software and optional assembly services, and mobile phone contents installation services to mobile phone manufacturers and mobile phone content providers. As of December 31, 2013, its game portfolio consisted of 717 mobile games, including 72 social games and 645 single-player games, of which 196 were developed in-house and 521 were licensed from mobile game developers. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Guangzhou, the People?s Republic of China. China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group Limited is a subsidiary of VODone Limited. 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