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
... tsApp and WeChat platforms. The rumor cited an unnamed security firm boss as saying that Lai placed short bets on 2,000 units of HSI futures (the version spreading on WhatsApp said it was 10,000 units ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
... Holding's WeChat became next to impossible as messages about the Hong Kong demonstrations were deleted almost as quickly as they were posted. Foreign Policy reported that Sept. 28 was actually the mos ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... mbers for WeChat, the popular instant messaging application, scale a new high, according to a survey by Global Web Index. Users in Asia ex-Japan were up 60 percent over the past year, the report said. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... 00700.HK) WeChat and Facebook's (FB.US) WhatsApp. A separate report on inflation of the number of followers for some of Weibo's most popular accounts is shining a spotlight on how even the company's r ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
... chat app Wechat, in which similar functions are provided through Wechat official accounts for businesses. Liu Jun, vice president of Baidu, noted that O2O services market in China is worth about 3.6 ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
... nding its WeChat user base in Hong Kong. The United States’ Uber is also planning to get in on the rebate program. -- Contact us at [email protected] KZ/AC/JL ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
Your party wants talk to you -- on WeChat and Yixin. And if you're not tech savvy, not to worry, your local department will organize meetings and seminars to ease people like you into the system. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
... Tencent’s WeChat and other messaging apps from distributing political news without permission. Tough new rules for mobile instant messaging services such as WeChat, published by the state news agency ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
Tencent’s first-half net profit jumped 59 percent to 12.2 billion yuan (US$1.98 billion) from a year earlier, thanks to growing contribution from its popular instant messaging app Weixin (WeChat for t ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
... aging app WeChat, said "the main aim of the rules is to resist the spread of harmful information like rumours... Tencent supports this aim." "We urge everyone to respect the relevant laws," the firm ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-08
... museum's WeChat account, the images have been shared more than 802,000 times on social media sites. The collection, titled Yongzheng Xingle Tu (Emperor Yongzheng at Play), shows the ruler adorned in ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
... adays. On WeChat, for example, 1.5 million chat group members invited her to come aboard the social networking platform. Knowledgeable, sometimes mischievous and even coquettish, Xiaobing has become a ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-04
... Tencent's WeChat Business Group as a subsidiary, the report said, adding that the former's listing status will be kept intact. China Innovationpay rejected the report, saying in a stock-exchange filin ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-01
