Per an opinion issued on Wednesday by Judge Patricia M. Lucas, Tencent’s petition to arbitrate WeChat users’ privacy case has been ordered off calendar. The five-page opinion comes after the parties submitted dueling briefs, with Tencent urging the court to send the class action to Hong Kong for arbitration, and the plaintiffs resisting, in part […]
China is pulling a new stunt as the Western Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) debuted on Chinese social media on Friday. This content was originally published here.
China’s social media giant, Wechat has said it will support the digital yuan in a move that is expected to increase the of Chinese residents that use the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC). Wechat’s support of the digital yuan potentially avails the digital currency to the social media’s 800 million active users. New App Provides […]
Source: Global Voices (11/29/21) An interview with media scholar Rose Luqiu about WeChat and techno-nationalism Her research explains Chinese diaspora’s unwavering loyalty to WeChat By Oiwan Lam WeChat censorship. Image created by Oiwan Lam. Rose Luqiu Luwei, a veteran journalist and director of the International Journalism Studies Master’s program at the Baptist University of Hong […]
Daily active users of WeChat mini-programs grew about 12.5 per cent in 2021 PHOTO: REUTERS HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Tencent Holdings’ WeChat super app This content was originally published here.
To comply with the new Personal Information Protection Law, Tencent added a list to its super app detailing what data it has collected, including contacts and location. This content was originally published here.
WeChat, China’s largest messaging app and one of the country’s most popular payment services, will start supporting the Chinese government’s digital currency. On Jan. 6, 2021, Tencent announced that it will begin accepting digital yuan payments via its proprietary mobile wallet WeChat Pay, according to a local news report. China has been developing a digital […]
China continues to rollout its central bank digital currency (CBDC), which will now be available on the country’s largest messaging app, the state-run China Daily reported on 6 January. According to the announcement, Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has added support for the country’s digital yuan to its WeChat Pay wallet, one of mainland China most […]
WeChat’s app store-like mini program ecosystem attracted more than 450 million daily active users (DAUs) in 2021, up 12.5% from 400 million DAUs in 2020, according to figures released on Thursday by the Tencent super-app. Why it matters: Mini programs have seen increasing adoption in China and WeChat’s latest figures suggest users have grown used […]
