Social Rumors about Chinese Gaming Companies: Tencent Looked at CrowdStar, Shanda Going for RockYou?

It’s not just US game and media companies who are looking around at buying big social game developers. Chinese media and gaming leaders Tencent and Shanda Games are, too, according to rumors going around some technology circles in Asia.

Although neither company has showed much interest in Facebook applications over the past few years, that began to change in 2009. Tencent launched games it had developed on its own. Shanda, meanwhile, made a watershed move in January, when it acquired Flash games platform company Mochi

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