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Pinduoduo, also known as PDD, founded by the Ex-Googler Colin Huang, is currently the fastest growing app in the history of the Chinese Internet and the leading Chinese App for social e-commerce. Pinduoduo is reported to have raised a US$3 billion investment…
Chinese e-commerce company JD is opening its logistics network up to consumers to send parcels around the country, marking the first entry by an e-commerce company into the parcel delivery business. The new JD parcel delivery service announced enables users…
Bank Indonesia has said that foreign consumer payment applications, like China’s Alipay and WeChat that Chinese tourists reportedly used in Bali, are not approved for local use. The central bank said the applications did not comply with regulations, in…
British luxury fashion house Burberry is releasing a see-now, buy-now collection exclusively on Instagram and WeChat. Limited-edition pieces from the collection, the first released under the Burberry label by designer Riccardo Tisci, will be made available…
WeChat, China’s most popular social media app, has launched its digital payments platform in Malaysia. It is the platform’s first market in Asia beyond China and Hong Kong. The digital payment feature of WeChat allow its users to transfer money among…
Earlier last week, the rumor of Facebook’s comeback to China was spreading fast. Banned since 2009, the technology giant was apparently trying to gain a foothold into the country with the establishment of an innovation hub. The word spread as screenshots of…
The influential fashion blogger is also collaborating with Montblanc on a limited-edition collection of women’s handbags, a new category for the brand. Tao Liang has an unapologetic love for handbags. And he also knows how to sell them to his over 3.5 million…
France’s Givenchy is revamping its retail reach in Asia, with the rollout of a WeChat store in China. Bowing 15 May 2018, the new WeChat boutique store is an extension of Givenchy’s premium offline service, and aims to offer a convenient yet immersive…
WeChat parent Tencent Holdings has achieved a 48 per cent increase in revenue during the first quarter of this year. Revenue from Smartphone games, payment-related services, digital-content subscriptions and sales, and social advertising were key contributors…
Singaporean brands have been promised access to more than 1 billion Chinese consumers through a new cross-border e-commerce app which runs on the WeChat ecosystem. Kinofy Group has launched its plug-and-play, cloud-based, platform which is designed to allow…
China’s popular messaging app WeChat now counts 1 billion monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, up 12% from 889 million MAU in Q4 2016, according to Tencent CEO Pony Ma. Ma said the platform reached the record figure during last month’s Lunar New Year…
WeChat has tightened its anti-counterfeit measures with 38 improvements to its Brand Protection Platform revealed in its annual Brand Owner Protection report released yesterday. WeChat claims more than 72,000 vendors were punished last year for attempting to…
Fashion brand Cue Clothing Co. has staked a claim as the first Australian retailer to offer WeChat and Alipay payment services in every one of its standalone store sites, nationwide. In a statement, Cue said its three fashion brands, including Cue, Veronika…
WeChat Pay and Alipay, China’s two biggest mobile payment platforms, have recently forged partnerships with tax refund companies to enable Chinese tourists to obtain rebates on their purchases via their respective mobile apps. Within this year, WeChat also…
Tencent’s WeChat Pay is now linking to non-Chinese credit cards for mobile payments. This means expats in China and foreign residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan can now bind and activate WeChat Pay accounts with credit-card services provided by JCB,…
Today, China leads the world in technical innovation and WeChat is its most iconic ambassador. With more than 900 million daily active users (as of September 2017) and close to 40 billion messages exchanged daily, WeChat is now more than ever the daily life…