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Tencent has long dominated China’s social media market, but Alibaba has successfully carved out a niche to ease workplace communications.

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) chat service QQ is used by over half a billion people and is China’s top app for iPhone and Android. When the QQ mobile apps got a radical

Singapore’s Zopim.com makes a customer service live chat web app, and its staffers have been extra busy this Singaporean National Day prepping to rollout version 2.0 of the site that

A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by the OMGpop/Zynga game Draw Something. The app, LiiHo Handwriting Messenger, is

Tencent's Weixin group-messaging app now has 50 million users in China - can it help kill off festive SMS this Chinese New Year? For some watershed moments, you know what’s

Click to enlarge. Photos of a presentation purport to show a secret, upcoming Tencent (HKG:0700) product called Free Talk, which would be a Skype-like VoiP service. From looking at the

China Mobile's M-Zone: a SNS and mobile services store that's bleeding new users. A new school year in China, a new battle for mobile subscribers amongst China’s three mobile telcos.

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ is the most widely used IM service in China. However only Windows users can enjoy the complete QQ experience – though the Mac version finally got video

A Chinese start-up is going very ‘elastic’ by mixing location (LBS), social, and IM/group messaging into its Zazzer service, which has beta Android and iPhone apps. The service’s Chinese name

Qihoo 360 looks set to renew its rivalry with Tencent by launching its own IM service and group messaging app, which will be called KouXin…