Time for today's tech check. First it was Alibaba now JD. Com splitting itself up

let's bring in Deidra boza for more on this trend.

Deidra, is this just coincidence?

It can't be.

Well, Chinese Big Tech, it's not that dissimilar to our own Big Tech.

These are sprawling empires with many different

businesses under one umbrella that have gained huge influence over different

spots of the economy and have collected a ton of data along the way.

No, this is not a coincidence because if this is the new playbook

for Chinese mega cap tech, spinoffs, etc, J.com and Alibaba,

they may only be the start.

J.D.com is the second public Chinese tech company in a week

to announce that it's breaking up its sprawling businesses

by targeting Hong Kong IPOs for property and industrial units.

Alibaba was just a few days ago.

It said it would put itself into six different independently

run companies that could seek separate IPOs.

So who else could follow?

Well, the biggest names in Chinese tech,

if they so wanted to, or if Beijing so wanted them to.

Take Tencent.

Let's take a look at its businesses.

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