Laiwang

They’re not meant to replace WeChat or Weibo – indeed, many of these specialist social apps integrate with the country’s top social networks.

Chinese ecommerce titan Alibaba is making yet another investment in an American company by pouring $120 million into Kabam, a developer of online and mobile games.

Last week, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released an updated version of Laiwang, the company’s bid for a mobile messaging app in the vein of WhatsApp, Line, and WeChat. Last autumn,

Tencent (HKG:0700) is the world’s fourth largest web company, and Alibaba is on the verge of history’s largest tech IPO. Both of these behemoth companies occupy many of the same verticals

Jack Ma, Chairman at Alibaba Today Alibaba unveiled the first three titles for its new mobile gaming branch, which the company formally announced earlier this month. The games are available

Somewhere in China, someone is about to purchase a movie ticket on his or her smartphone. And that ticket purchase could tip the power balance between two of the country’s

Alibaba has been pushing its messaging app, Laiwang, a lot recently, including forcing the e-commerce titan’s tens of thousands of employees to get friends to sign up for the app.

Alibaba has continued its relentless promotion of its latecomer chat app Laiwang, and it looks like WeChat, its biggest competitor, has begun to fight back. Earlier this week Laiwang announced

Jack Ma believes in his baby, Laiwang, and he wants you to as well. Yesterday Alibaba chairman Jack Ma continued his public push for Laiwang, his company’s latecomer messaging app,

Reports have surfaced in the Chinese media this week covering rumblings in the Alibaba headquarters over the company’s evolving mobile strategy as the new year approaches. First, Sina Tech reports