... Line and WeChat in Asia dominating the market. In the US and Europe, WhatsApp is the undisputed champion and growing. Already, it commands a user base of one billion and monthly active users of 450 m ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
... 00700.HK) WeChat, a service with 500 million users. WeChat is hugely popular in China but whether it can go one step further and make the move offshore depends on one thing: the desire of Tencent's m ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
... Tencent’s WeChat service is one example of that kind of innovative pricing. China Mobile has signalled that it, too, is willing to offer cheaper 4G services to hold on to its users. The big three will ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-20
... rough its WeChat app, Dianping also has much to gain. The tie-up gives the smaller firm access to hundreds of millions of Tencent users, opening the door for more real-time commenters to reach the pla ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-18
... plan for WeChat instant messaging users. From instant messages to music to mobile video, OTT services have become hugely popular in recent years. But those providers have been criticized by telecom o ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-17
... rough its WeChat instant messaging platform. The latecomer to map services is catching up through integration with Sohu.com’s search engine. But it has a long way to go. By the reckoning of IT consult ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-13
Beijing Wangfujing Department Store (600859.CN) is teaming up with Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK) to develop online shopping business via Tencent's WeChat instant messaging service, the Shanghai Sec ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-12
Some banks are imposing daily transfer limits to a high-yield fund product run by Tencent's instant messaging platform WeChat, Oriental Morning Post reported Thursday, citing comments by the official ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-06
... Tencent's WeChat with LinkedIn, extending its reach to more potential members. The company has already signed up more the 4 million members partly through its Chinese mobile app, and its next step sho ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK) said the volume of messages on its WeChat instant messaging service reached up to 10 million messages per minute on Jan. 30, Lunar New Year's eve, Beijing Evening News ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
... Weixin or WeChat and its Tenpay payment service to give or receive red packets. Credit Suisse maintained its target price on the counter. Meanwhile, Hengan International (01044.HK) soared 6.9 percent ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-29
Has Sina Weibo lost it? That's the question observers are asking as talk grows of more people switching to Tencent’s popular messaging app WeChat from the Twitter-like Sina Weibo. The China Internet N ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
WeChat’s Licaitong fund product saw its annualized yield rise to 7.34 percent on Tuesday, less than one week after internal testing began, Shanghai Securities News reported Wednesday, citing the compa ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-22
Internet behemoth Tencent (00700.HK) is a pioneer in many areas of the mobile internet era. Its mobile instant messenger WeChat and its mobile gaming platform are both champion products. However, when ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
Larry Weber just gave up. The author and founder of public relations giant Weber Shandwick tried to search the website of what once called itself "the world's greatest newspaper" but abandoned the eff ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-20
... Tencent's WeChat (Weixin) mobile messaging application, with the updated version including mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, a customized public account menu, mobile customer servic ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-16
WeChat, the instant messaging service of Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK), is set to conduct on Wednesday an internal system testing for its new finance platform, which includes a money-market fund se ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-15
... platform WeChat. WeChat users can use Didi's services without downloading the app since they can make payments through their WeChat accounts starting next month. Taxi-booking apps have become popular ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-07
... e popular WeChat app, followed close behind with an increase of 98 percent. Another gaming play, Sands China (01928.HK), added more than 80 percent to finish third. At the other end of the blue-chip s ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-31
... ed QQ and WeChat to make them the country’s two most popular instant messaging tools. He went on to show how the success of Tencent's online game business is largely based on its well-established soci ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-19