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Definitely not limited to one country - they are basically one of the largest video game companies in the world with majority holdings in Riot Games, Supercell, Epic Games and a large percentage of Activision Blizzard.

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SoftBank has lots of interest in international companies also, but it still isn’t an international brand.

Since I am a Sprint Customer they are pretty big in my day to day life.

Isn’t that kind of like how Deutsch Telecom owns T-mobile, but not many really know or care? Is SoftBank trying to make itself the brand for Sprint users?

Brand and size of US capital are two different things. Yes Deutsch and SoftBank are big players in US technology.

http://www.businessinsider.com/running-list-softbank-investm...

Biggest deal is Softbank owns ARM, granted that is a UK firm but ARM really is the future especially now that Windows 10 can run on ARM. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-07/arm-bulks...

The original statement was most people don’t know Tencent is bigger than Facebook (in market cap). That’s simply because most people don’t know what Tencent is, like they don’t know SoftBank or Deutsch Telecom. They aren’t international brands.

Your worried about semantics. Tencent's corporation holdings and size doesn't isn't increased or decrease by people's knowing the name Tencent. It actually strengthens my statement that Tencent is bigger than people understand, especially here in America in knowledge of name and its corporate size.

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