The battle for the world’s biggest mobile-payment market is turning cutthroat.
One focus of the intense rivalry is helping users to separate their work from life
Tencent Inc, owner of China's most popular mobile phone social app WeChat, has announced that it will charge fees for withdrawing money from the app's "wallet" from March 1.
Beijinger Ma Lei's fingers have been a blur across her cell phone key pad during this Lunar New Year holiday.
Qatar-based telecom operator Ooredoo Myanmar has offered free data services for WeChat Myanmar app under a partnership program between the two communication apps, an official report said Tuesday.
On Sunday night, many WeChat users found in their WeChat Moments news feed an update from a new yet long-awaited friend—advertisement.
With social media engaging massive numbers of users in China, platforms like WeChat and micro blogs are increasingly being used as recruitment tools.
The war between Sina Weibo and Tencent's WeChat, two big players in China's social media game, escalated when Sina Weibo began to ban users promoting WeChat on its service on late Tuesday.
In bustling Chinese cities, urbanites use social media for chat and work; in the vast grasslands of north China's Inner Mongolia, nomads depend on it to sell cows and search for lost horses.
Chinese government agencies are slowly turning mobile messaging application WeChat into a platform to interact with the people.
Chinese IT giant Tencent and Easy Taxi, the world's biggest taxi booking app, have announced a partnership allowing WeChat users to book taxis directly via the popular messaging app, according to a press release issued by Easy Taxi on Wednesday.
Tencent, the operator of WeChat, or Weixin, a popular instant messaging service in China, said Wednesday it has shut down 20 million prostitution-related WeChat accounts so far this year.
WeChat, or Weixin, a popular instant messaging service in China, risks losing its luster as users complain about bombardment by deceptive ads and excessive information.
The number of messages sent through WeChat, a mobile communication application, doubled on Thursday, the eve of the Spring Festival, when Chinese sent wishes for the new lunar year.
The Chinese tradition of giving gifts of red envelopes stuffed with cash went virtual and viral ahead of lunar new year as China's Internet moguls court the booming Internet finance market.
China's two Internet giants -- Sina Weibo and its rival Tencent WeChat -- have rolled out new products with more commercial functions, marking the escalation of competition in the Chinese mobile Internet market.
Lu Jiuping starts working at 4 a.m. every day, but the retired 50-year-old businessman has never made a cent from his current occupation.
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