Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up January 9th was WeChat mini program system’s ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Pinduoduo has rolled out a Wechat-based mini ...

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 ...

When people travel, they usually have a list of apps installed to navigate a new city, find restaurants, book transit tickets and more. China’s top chat app WeChat has designs on claiming that spot ...

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, ...

Tencent has re-engineered the WeChat messaging app in a way that applications smaller than 10 megabytes can run instantly on WeChat's interface. Tencent's move to bundle apps within WeChat could hurt ...