• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.

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        12 days ago

        Tencent I’m aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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          12 days ago

          Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

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          12 days ago

          They invested money, I don’t remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.

          • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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            12 days ago

            That’s typically what you get in return for an investment. The only question is if it’s enough of a share to give control or at least influence.