According to a news (in Mandarin) in China, QQ, a popular instant messenger released by Tencent is quitting the Taiwan market. Known as 麻吉QQ, a product collaborated by these two parties, i.e. Tencent and Yam in November 2003. However, this product is not well acceptably by the Taiwan people and not generated the astonishing returns as expected. Since the released in Taiwan’s market, it has only reached one (1) million users, not a substantial amount of users when compared to another instant messenger such as MSN.

I wonder why they can’t made the above mentioned instant messenger a well-known name as QQ in China? Was it just a product born in a wrong timing? Was it just bad luck? Or was it the starting of the rise and fall of Yam.com, the first portal and content provider created in Taiwan, now far lag behind of Yahoo! Taiwan.