Not too long after New Year festivities ended, 跳一跳 (Jump, Jump), a mobile game by Tencent, attracted 400 million players in three days. This feat quickly crowned Jump Jump as China’s most popular ...

WeChat, known as Weixin in China, started as a social media and messaging app in 2011. Capitalizing on its growing audience, the app continued to add different functions, allowing users to pay bills, ...

WeChat rolled out a series of updates last Thursday, laying bare Tencent’s ambitious plans for mini programs—to build a vast online marketplace for traders and sellers. The move puts China’s most ...

The WeChat mini-program has taken Chinese e-commerce industry by storm. From 2019 to 2020 alone, the tool experienced a 33.3% upshot in daily active users, from 300 to 400 million. With rising ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most ...

They may not be widely known outside of China, but Tencent’s mini program initiative to develop “apps” that live outside of app stores is bearing fruit after it clocked two notable landmarks: 200 ...

Hotels are developing WeChat mini-programs to drive digital bookings among Chinese travelers. Club Med is one such company that has seen success in its WeChat mini-program strategy, developed by ...