Yixin

China’s web crackdown in the past couple of months has been wide-ranging, extending from pornography to the spread of online rumors.

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

Yixin, the messaging app developed jointly by China Telecom (NYSE:CHA) and the web portal Netease (NASDAQ:NTES), introduced a new feature today that lets users based outside of China can make free international

When China Telecom and Netease’s jointly-developed chat app Yixin launched late last month, its main selling point was that it allowed users to leave voice messages for anyone, not just

WeMeet rolls your Weibo feed, RSS feeds, and a chat app all into one. The defining characteristic is the app’s focus on groups.

Coincidence or conspiracy? That’s the question some Chinese mobile users are asking (mostly in jest) after popular chat app WeChat suffered an outage in China late in the evening on

I’ve written before about how Netease and China Telecom are reportedly working on a WeChat competitor and why such an endeavor is doomed, but in spite of my pessimism, the

There’s no doubt that Tencent’s WeChat is the app to beat in China’s social media market these days. But is it too late for another domestic chat app to rise

We’ve written a bit lately about how China’s major telecoms are upset with WeChat and other OTT services that they see as using their networks to steal customers away from

China’s internet users are used to data leaks by now as many Chinese websites apparently suffer from subpar security practices, but they may not be used to their information being