WeChat currently hosts over 1 million mini programs, with 1.5 million developers and 82 million third-party platforms devoted to enriching various services via the app, which boasts 1.15 billion users ...

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GUANGZHOU, China, May 18, 2020 /CNW/ -- On May 18, Tencent's WeChat, Tsinghua University's Tsinghua China Data Center, and the Tencent Social Research Institute jointly released a report entitled "The ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook UnionPay app users are now able to scan WeChat QR codes to make payments. WeChat does not ...

The Chinese variant of Twitter, Weibo, has banned its users from promoting its rival WeChat on its platform, as the war for users between the internet giants escalates. Weibo earlier said in a ...

Alipay, China’s most widely used mobile payment platform, issued an apology on Friday after an online blogger implied that its “mini apps” feature, released to third-party developers earlier the same ...

The way Chinese smartphone users pay for lunch and browse the internet owes much to an obsession that the founder of messaging app WeChat has with quick-response, or QR, codes. In China’s cutthroat ...

A journalist experiences the mobile payment tool of Wechat Pay at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 14, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] What's in a quick response (QR) code? An economy ...