The videogame and social-media company posted better-than-expected results amid resilience in its key gaming business and rapid AI-led growth in its marketing-services segment.

Apple is testing Douyin Pay support for the App Store in China, according to the South China Morning Post. Douyin Pay ...

WeChat is often referred to as a messaging app, but it’s far more than that. It integrates social media and ecommerce features, creating a platform where it’s relatively easy to build ...

WeChat is the world’s biggest messaging app with over 1.2 billion global users, almost of all of whom live in China. Chinese citizens use it the way Americans use text messaging, in addition to ...

As of last September, WeChat had more than 1.2 billion monthly users who use it to chat, read news, watch funny videos, order food, book hospital visits, pay utility bills — you name it.

On the surface, Chinese messaging app WeChat seems similar to its western counterparts like WhatsApp and Viber. Like Facebook-owned WhatsApp, it allows you to send text messages to people over an ...

WeChat’s enterprise version has surpassed 130 million active users. Its biggest rival, Dingtalk, operated by Alibaba, reached 155 million daily active users last March.

WeChat’s first foray into this marketplace came in 2012, with the introduction of “official accounts,” which resemble Facebook Pages. In early 2017, it introduced miniprograms.

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that imposes strict new limits on WeChat 700 -0.30%, the most used app in China, intensifying a tech war between the world’s two largest economies.

But everyone has WeChat, so, naturally, people congregate on WeChat. The pull of WeChat is so strong that communication among first-generation Chinese immigrants is often exclusively done via the app.