Posts Tagged: WeChat

Tencent’s mobile chat app has been accused by some of being a copycat (and those complaints are not without merit), but that hasn’t stopped WeChat from growing at breakneck pace. With 300-million-plus users, it’s far and away the mobile chat app of choice in China, but perhaps more importantly, it’s probably the first Chinese social network to see real success overseas, with more than 40 million international users as of April 2013.



Chinese Tech Companies Are Getting Shut Out of India

Late last week, news broke that India’s Intelligence Bureau had fingered Chinese chat app WeCh...

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  • June 18, 2013
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WeChat Under Suspicion from Indian Intelligence Bureau

Chinese tech companies are having a rough year in India! First Huawei and ZTE were refused domestic ...

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  • June 15, 2013
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WeChat Celebrates Ramadan in Indonesia

Tencent’s WeChat has teamed up with Indonesian creative network and marketplace Kreavi for a R...

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  • June 12, 2013
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Test Version of Major WeChat Upgrade Leaked: More Scanning, More Shaking, More Shopping

Tencent’s WeChat continues to grow and evolve beyond its origins as a pretty simple chat app. ...

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  • June 8, 2013
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China Mobile Challenges Skype and WeChat With a New Globally Targeted App

China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), the world’s biggest mobile telco by user-base, has perhaps been...

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  • May 31, 2013
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Tencent to Open Malaysia Office: Good News for Malaysian Startups?

Tencent to Open Malaysia Office: Good News for Malaysian Startups?

The overseas expansion of Chinese tech giant Tencent continues, following along with the success of ...

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  • May 24, 2013
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Who Owns Your WeChat Posts?

It’s an issue that seems to pop up for every developing social platform that doesn’t spe...

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  • May 21, 2013
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China’s Top Chat App Gets a WeChat-Like Makeover, But Everyone Hates It

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) chat service QQ is used by over half a billion people and is China’s top ap...

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  • May 13, 2013
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WeChat Gets In-App Purchases

WeChat Gets In-App Purchases; The Pics Look Slick But Will Users Like This?

Well, you all knew it was coming. The e-commerce train has been rumbling toward the mobile chat app ...

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  • June 18, 2013
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WeChat Looks to Take on Qihoo as New Security Feature Comes to V5.0

Last week we wrote about some of the new features rumored to be coming to version 5.0 of WeChat, but...

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  • June 14, 2013
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WeChat Competitor Feixin: 100 Million Users, But Low Activity Levels

Over the past year, Tencent’s WeChat has exploded. So much so, in fact, that you might forget ...

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  • June 11, 2013
  • at 11:30 am
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WeChat Sees Huge Boost in Philippines After Star-Studded TV Ads

Since ramping up TV and social marketing in the Philippines last month, China-made messaging app WeC...

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  • June 3, 2013
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WeChat Makes Push for Emerging Markets With New Nokia Asha App

China-made social messaging app WeChat is once again making a push for new users in emerging markets...

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  • May 30, 2013
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WeChat Now Has 50 Million Users Outside of China

Early last month we mentioned that WeChat, the China-made messaging app, had 40 million users outsid...

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  • May 21, 2013
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Tencent Posts Rocketing Profits, Sees 195 Million Active Users on WeChat

China’s biggest web company by revenue has just posted its Q1 2013 financial report. Tencent (HKG:...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 6:39 pm
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Line’s Revenue for Q4 2012 Was $58 Million

For the first time since NHN debuted its popular chat app, Line is publicly announcing its quarterly...

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  • May 9, 2013
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