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Guanxi 2.0: how WeChat groups are changing the game in China’s tech and startup scene
Tencent’s flagship app is blurring the lines between professional and social, taking the place of conference rooms, expert forums, recruitment sites, and, with its recent integration of LinkedIn, resumes.
Paul Bischoff · · 7 min read
Alibaba’s Jack Ma quits WeChat, tells followers and celebrities to use his upstart messaging app instead
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,
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min read
After Jack Ma’s iron fist memo, Alibaba’s chat app Laiwang gains 5 million users in one day
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
Josh Horwitz · · 2 min read
The next generation of chat apps will be group-centric
WeMeet and KakaoGroup are just the beginning. We’ll see several more of these in-between group messaging apps pop up from the big players and from startups.
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min readSina Weibo appoints agent to set up office in Singapore and Indonesia for expansion
We’ve received news that Sina Weibo has officially expanded to both Singapore and Indonesia, appointing a new company called Trends Media to focus its expansion efforts. According to Trends Media sales and marketing
Vanessa Tan · · 3 min readSina’s WeChat competitor WeMeet might have a fatal flaw
Everyone in China seems in a hurry to rush after WeChat now for some reason. Why they waited until the app had more than 200 million active users is beyond
C. Custer · · 3 min readFirst impressions: Sina releases WeChat competitor, WeMeet
WeMeet rolls your Weibo feed, RSS feeds, and a chat app all into one. The defining characteristic is the app’s focus on groups.
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