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Huawei is doing payments! After obtaining a license in March, Huawei has entered an industry 90% controlled by Alipay and WeChat Pay with its Huawei Wallet app. Huawei’s biggest competitive advantage is probably the use of the company’s own product ecosystem.
How Australia's PM presented WeChat account loss as a China threat
Australian prime minister loses WeChat account because of incompetence, CCP is blamed: “Scott Morrison lost control of his account, but analysts dispute claims Beijing was involved,” says the BBC.
An older China gets bigger WeChat fonts and buttons
Tencent is answering Beijing’s call to help close the digital divide with WeChat’s ‘Care Mode’ for elderly users, which enlarges fonts and buttons and changes the colour scheme.
WeChat | South China Morning Post
Released by Chinese web giant Tencent in 2011, WeChat is the largest standalone messaging app in the world by monthly users, with more than 500 million people, primarily in China, using the app on a regular basis. Originally confined to text messaging, WeChat has grown into an app platform, with gaming, payment, and social networking functions.
Beijing pulls up WeChat and other pop idol apps for data flaws
Naming and shaming of Chinese apps by the central government has now become a regular occurrence, and the MIIT has upped its surveillance since 2019.
Tencent’s fintech outshines gaming revenue growth amid regulatory scrutiny
Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings posted US$6.6 billion in second-quarter profit amid Beijing’s tighter scrutiny of Big Tech.
Alibaba’s new blockchain auction site is selling rights to Star Wars art
A new section of Alibaba Auction allows artists to sell the rights to their works using blockchain, with bids next month starting at US$15 per piece.
WeChat resumes new user registrations after ‘security upgrade’
WeChat had paused new user registrations so it could upgrade its “security technology to align with all relevant laws and regulations”.
WeChat suspends new users until early August for ‘security upgrade’
WeChat has suspended new user registrations until August while it conducts a ‘security upgrade’ amid China’s intensified scrutiny over the country’s internet industry.
LGBTQ activists give voice to China's censored WeChat groups
After accounts wiped, slogan 'We are all user name not found' pops up in New York
Red Vs are coming after Chinese LGBTQ+ groups
WeChat’s closure of student-run LGBTQ+ accounts triggers another wave of nationalist frenzy and an antitrust report.
China’s culture ministry seeks to expand control over online influencers
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a draft regulation that would expand its oversight of multichannel networks, agencies that help online influencers.
Fangyan Friday Special: Viral Speech | The World of Chinese
We translate samples from new software helping medical staff communicate in patients' dialects in the ongoing coronavirus fight
Show Your China Pride on WeChat with This Mini-Program
National Day is right around the corner!
China says new digital currency to be similar to Facebook’s
Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency has sparked concerns among global regulators
Trump’s TikTok, WeChat Actions Targeting China Revoked by Biden
The president issued an executive order mandating a broad review of apps controlled by foreign adversaries, including China.
Shein overtakes Amazon as the most installed shopping app in US – TechCrunch
Shein‘s quiet rise has reached a crescendo as the fast fashion e-commerce app takes the crown from Amazon as the most downloaded shopping app on iOS and Android in the United States, according to data from app tracking firms App Annie and SensorTower. Its ascent is quiet because the startup, despite reportedly exceeding a $15 […]
PayPal’s ambition and uphill battle in China
Over the last few months, PayPal has been quietly gearing up for its expansion in China. At the recent Boao Forum for Asia, China’s answer to Davos, the American payments giant said its strategy for China is not to challenge the duopoly of Alipay and WeChat Pay. Instead, it wants to focus on cross-border business […]
China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money unlinked to the global financial system dominated by the dollar. It also could soften the bite of U.S. sanctions.
WeChat’s emoji makeover bolsters anti-smoking drive in China
Tencent’s WeChat, known as Weixin in mainland China, has taken out the image of a cigar from a popular emoji that is used to describe someone as ‘cool’.
