WhatsApp vs WeChat: Which is Better?
- 30-Jan-2025
In the realm of instant messaging applications WhatsApp and WeChat stand out as two of the most widely used platforms globally. It is a global phenomenon that affects While WhatsApp dominates in many Western countries WeChat is the go-to app in China and has a significant presence in other parts of the world. Both apps […]
WeChat Pay transaction fees to be reduced
- 03-Mar-2022
Chinese social media giant Tencent will reduce transaction fees for small and medium-sized merchants using its WeChat payments system by 10%, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The reductions will apply beginning Sept. 1, 2021, and extend up to Sept. 30, 2024, the company added. In order to qualify for the reduction, merchants […]
‘Loophole’ allowed WeChat searches on Google, Bing
- 22-Oct-2021
WeChat has fixed a glitch that allowed some of its content to be searchable by external search engines, China’s most popular messaging app said on Friday, raising questions over regulators’ latest attempt to crackdown on the internet sector. Some of WeChat’s content, including articles on its public accounts page, was briefly searchable in the last […]
WeChat makes content searchable on Google and Bing
- 22-Oct-2021
WeChat has made its content searchable on some foreign search engines such as Google and Bing, Reuters checks showed, in the latest tearing down of “walled gardens” in China’s internet sector. Content from China’s most popular messaging app WeChat, including articles and videos on its popular public accounts page, a function similar to a news […]
Alibaba apps start offering WeChat Pay option
- 28-Sep-2021
China’s Alibaba has begun offering payment services from Tencent’s WeChat on a number of its apps, after the government ordered major tech firms to stop blocking each other’s services and links. Local tech blog 36Kr reported on Tuesday that users of Alibaba’s food delivery app Ele.me, luxury goods app Kaola and e-book app Shuqi can […]
WeChat allows users access to rivals’ links
- 17-Sep-2021
WeChat messaging app will start allowing users to access external links from Friday, days after regulators told the company and its rivals to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other’s links. China’s technology giants have historically prevented links and services by rivals from being shared on their platforms. On Monday, however, regulators said they […]
Tencent will inspect WeChat’s ‘youth mode’
- 07-Aug-2021
Tencent said it would investigate the functions of its popular social messaging app WeChat’s “youth mode”, after Beijing prosecutors initiated a civil public-interest lawsuit against a subsidiary of the company on Friday. Prosecutors had said the “youth mode” on WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors. “We will earnestly inspect and check the functions […]
WeChat blocks Australian prime minister in doctored image dispute
- 02-Dec-2020
The Chinese social media platform WeChat blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison
US appeals court rejects immediate WeChat ban
- 27-Oct-2020
A US appeals court on Monday rejected a Justice Department request that it allow the government to immediately ban Apple and Google from offering Tencent’s WeChat
China says US TikTok, WeChat bans break WTO rules
- 05-Oct-2020
China said at a World Trade Organization meeting that restrictions by the US on Chinese mobile applications TikTok and WeChat are in violation of the body’s rules