Uber on Monday announced the launch of a Mini Program inside Chinese social media superapp WeChat (called Weixin in China).

Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings has joined US-based ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies to provide a seamless way ...

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 has over 1 billion users in China, and while it's been available here for some time, it isn't one of the more popular apps, except for those talking to family back home or doing business.

Back in January 2017, Tencent introduced “mini programs,” which are essentially lightweight apps that run inside WeChat. When you need to hail a cab, for example, instead of downloading the ...

Over the last few days, my WeChat has been inundated with people reminiscing about the first post they ever published on the app’s newsfeed, which marked its 10-year anniversary this week. The ...

Everything changed after WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, was released in 2011. She now wakes up every morning to greetings from relatives, in both her old homeland and her new one, ...

No. In 2020, the U.S. government banned WeChat and TikTok citing national security concerns. The ban was blocked by a federal judge and later dropped in 2021.. There is a ban in North Carolina ...

WeChat app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab.

Prosecutors in Beijing are suing Chinese tech giant Tencent, claiming the “youth mode” on its WeChat app violates laws protecting minors. The suit doesn’t specify how the app goes against ...

The country’s censors are crippling access to the do-everything app for some users, an escalation in the Communist Party’s drive to cleanse the internet of even the whiff of dissent.

Canada on Monday banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks, but said government ...