If you want to know what mainlanders feel about Hong Kong nowadays, there is no better place to go than social networking platforms such as WeChat and Weibo. Last week, the two sites buzzed with angry ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... atsapp or WeChat us. Our colleagues will send routed maps or even voice messages to show them how to get to the destination." "Want to eat ginseng chicken soup during lunch? No problem, just send a me ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
... ncing and WeChat all offer great opportunities. Third, the city needs to breed professionals who have expertise in internet finance. Hong Kong is home to several world-class universities and internati ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
... alize its WeChat mobile text and voice messaging service, and launch more new products to generate more revenues. 6. E-commerce switches to O2O. Taobao, Amazon and eBay will remain the key e-commerce ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Targeted ads are a pain for most social network users. In China, however, they are an object of desire, the Financial Times reported. Users of top Chinese social media app WeChat who were left out of ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
A couple of media reports are shining a spotlight on Tencent's (00700.HK) WeChat, and some of the new steps it is taking to monetize the hugely popular service that is rapidly expanding beyond its roo ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
... s Daily's WeChat instant messaging account, the Communist Party's official mouthpiece cited a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po that a parade would be held this year to commemorate the anni ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-28
To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth anniversary on Monday, Chinese internet heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed a function that allowed WeChat app users who sent a message with the En ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... es on her WeChat account. Die Zeit decided to stop publicizing Zhang’s case soon after in order to seek her release. The paper said on Wednesday: “We did not want to complicate diplomatic efforts bein ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... known as WeChat in English, as well as 24 websites and 9 channels or columns on websites, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) was quoted as saying in a statement Tuesday. The Weixin accounts ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... -- where WeChat is a popular social media application -- they have lost their attractiveness in Hong Kong due to the sensitive political climate and intensified Chinese official crackdown on social m ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... known as WeChat outside the country -- and Sina Weibo an advantage. Coca-Cola tapped into Weixin’s built-in reader for QR codes, two-dimensional bar codes, to start its Lyric Coke campaign in China. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... 's QQ and WeChat platforms, Ko noted. The Alibaba-backed firm is now looking to raise US$216 million through an initial public offering in the US. Momo is unlike other instant messaging software, but ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
Bottom line: WeChat will face slow progress in the United States and other global markets owing to strong competition and will be hobbled by concerns it may monitor its users' activities like it does ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... eresting. WeChat became universally adopted in Asia and China originally because of its interactive icon capability. But this has evolved and its voice message and payment features are attracting gro ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-10
... on Weibo, WeChat as well as some other social media platforms showed Beckham being given a tour by Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma and other senior company officials. The pictures were apparently taken ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
... aging app WeChat and the online shopping channel of HKTV, which will be launched on Nov. 19. "We see HKTV as a good business partner ... our clients do not overlap very much," Chan said during the com ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
... recently, WeChat. He presided over the seamless transformation from desktop QQ to mobile WeChat. By August, the latter had 430 million users worldwide, trailing only Whatsapp, a Facebook unit, which h ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-29
... st month, WeChat users in Hong Kong found that their photos -- even those unrelated to the protests -- could not be viewed by their friends in the mainland. It is said that Tencent (00700.HK) put up a ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
... Tencent’s WeChat mobile payment service. At the end of 2013, Alipay had 300 million users, including 190 million active users of its mobile purse application, accounting for 80 percent of the market, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-17
