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New Celebrity Stickers Available on WeChat With More Coming Soon
If you’ve ever wanted to use a celebrity’s likeness in a conversation with a friend (who hasn’t?) then you’re in luck thanks to WeChat Indonesia’s latest sticker launch, which includes a variety of...
View ArticleWeChat Launches the Orange Lantern and Halloweeny Sticker Sets to Celebrate...
Along with BBM and imo.im, Tencent’s WeChat has also decided to release some sticker to celebrate Halloween. The new stickers depict three original WeChat characters called the Orange Lantern and...
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WeChat Launches MojiMe, Allowing Users to Create Customize Animated Emoji for...
Today, WeChat launched its own app for creating customized animated emoji! The app, called MojiMe is the latest of a series of features and apps aimed at providing custom and localized content for...
View ArticleWant a WeChat-Based Remote Control for Your Refrigerator? You May Soon Get...
It turns out that KakaoTalk isn’t the only one vying to control the appliances you use in day-to-day living. Tencent, the company behind the popular WeChat messaging platform, is also apparently...
View ArticleWhatsApp Leads Messaging in Africa While Viber Leads in VoIP
As it did back in September, WhatsApp Messenger continues to dominate the African messaging landscape. With 7 percent of total traffic on Africa’s mobile networks, WhatsApp is the leading third-party...
View ArticleNew Standalone Weixin / WeChat VoIP Apps Focus on Free Calling
If you’re a WeChat (Weixin in China) user, you no doubt already know that it includes built-in calling functionality, but that hasn’t stopped Tencent, the company behind WeChat, from releasing a couple...
View ArticleChinese Calling and Messaging App WeChat Hits 468.1 Million Users Worldwide
Messaging apps have become a phenomenon, reaching all corners of the globe and largely replacing text messaging and calling provided by carriers. We’ve been covering the phenomenon here on TruTower...
View ArticleWeChat Won’t Have Blue Ticks in Its Messaging App For User Privacy Reasons
About a week ago, WhatsApp released blue ticks that confirmed that a message recieved via the messaging service has been read. This small change made a few users feel nervous, and although some sought...
View ArticleLINE and Tencent to Invest in Korean Gaming Studio 4:33 Creative Lab
LINE and Tencent the company behind WeChat have come together for the first time to invest $110 million in 4:33 Creative Lab, a games studio based out of Korea. This means we could see some new...
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GlobalWebIndex: WeChat Dominates in APAC with Mobile Messaging
While WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger continue to dominate the messaging landscape worldwide, WeChat isn’t too far behind, with nearly 470 million active users worldwide. Most of these users are, of...
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WeChat, BuzzFeed Announce Partnership to Bring News, Entertainment to WeChat...
BuzzFeed has just announced a partnership with WeChat to bring news and entertainment content beyond BuzzFeed’s 175 million users globally to the 468.1 million users of Tencent’s popular messaing app....
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Albert Einstein-Inspired Stickers Now Available on the WeChat Messaging Platform
Stickers in messaging apps have become quite common nowadays, with WeChat, BBM, IMO.im, and others partaking. The stickers have not only become another way to communicate, but have also become a way...
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GlobalWebIndex: Snapchat is the Fastest Growing Social App, While WeChat is...
For those of you who are interested in the “numbers” and want to see how your favorite calling and messaging apps faired this year, the folks at GlobalWebIndex have provided all the information we need...
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WeChat for Windows Phone Updated With Fresh New Design
Tencent’s ever popular WeChat has just been updated to version 5.4.0.0 on the Windows Phone platform, bringing with it a fresh new design that’s directly targeted at improving the overall user...
View ArticleWeChat, Easy Taxi Roll Out Integration in Malaysia, Thailand, and the...
Easy Taxi and WeChat have been working together for awhile now. The two firms partnered in Singapore this past summer to launch integration between the Easy Taxi cab service and WeChat, allowing users...
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WeChat Adds Lazada to Its Growing List of Local Partnerships in Singapore
WeChat has just announced their collaboration with Lazada, a leading shopping destination in Southeast Asia. As part of this new partnership, Lazada is launching an official WeChat account in...
View ArticleWeChat Joins the Fight Against the Ebola Virus, Both Online and Offline
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’re aware of the situation in Africa, where so far tens of thousands of people have been infected with Ebola, and hundreds have died. It’s a global health...
View ArticleEnter the World of a Smart Room That’s Controlled Entirely by WeChat
We’ve already seen past examples of how messaging apps are being used in innovative ways to take advantage of the Internet of Things. In November, we heard about a WeChat remote control for your...
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After WhatsApp Web Launch, WeChat Spotlights WeChat for Web Benefits
The highly-competitive messaging space is becoming more competitive by the day with this week’s launch of WhatsApp Web bringing the popular Facebook-owned messenger to the desktop for the first time —...
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WeChat, Ten Sports Partner to Bring Sports News to WeChatters Via Official...
If you’re a big fan of watching sports, you might be interested to know that Ten Sports, the most popular sports channel in India has launched their official account on the WeChat app, and plans to...
View ArticleSend Some Love-Laced Messages to Your WeChat Friends This Valentine’s Day
Tomorrow is the official day of way too many candy hearts and chocolates, with the theme of love mingling with it all. Many of us will be able to feel the full effect of Cupid’s arrow tomorrow, and the...
View ArticleDinos Alive Brings a South African Park Into the Digital Realm With WeChat
If shopping or sports weren’t enough to convince you to download WeChat, maybe having your own digital tour guide will. Tencent’s popular WeChat app has partnered with South Africa’s Dinos Alive Play...
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Ford, Nissan Reportedly in Talks to Integrate WeChat Into Vehicles in China
If you’re into being able to use your favorite messaging apps just about anywhere, including while driving, you’ll be interested to know that Ford reportedly has held discussions with China’s Tencent...
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WeChat Celebrates the Chinese New Year With Two New Sticker Packs
Hot on the heels of its Valentine’s Day celebration, WeChat has also decided to include some stickers to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The year of the sheep gets a jump start with the Happy Spring...
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WeChat Directly Targets Swine Flu With New Official Account Meant to Help...
It’s not just Ebola that’s getting eradicated with WeChat awareness. The messaging application is also targeting Swine Flu (H1N1), which recently broke out in India. While various agencies are working...
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WeChat Will Make an Appearance on Apple Watch. Here’s What to Expect
Yesterday, Apple’s Watch was unveiled to the world, and is ready to go head to head with other wearable devices like the Android Wear and Microsoft Band starting late April (for those of you who missed...
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Spartan Warrior Sticker Fights Its Way Onto the WeChat Mobile Messaging Platform
WeChat has been ablaze with new sticker and Official Account launches as of late. A little over a month ago, a couple of WeChat sticker packs launched in celebration of the Chinese New Year and Swine...
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Which Calling and Messaging Apps Can You Get For Apple Watch?
Recently, a number of messaging apps have been made available for Apple Watch, and it’s a trend that will only continue as time goes on and new devices emerge in the Wearables space. Most recently,...
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WeChat Version 6.2 for iOS and Android Brings Moments Translation, Chat Log...
WeChat has just updated its iOS and Android apps to version 6.2, which brings a number of notable new features with it. The update brings translation for Moments, a “simplified” chat history migration...
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UNICEF HK To Seek Fundraising Via WeChat Payment Platform
Social platform WeChat has announced that the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK) brings in a new payment channel to support world emergency relief work via WeChat’s advanced Payment Platform,...
View ArticleWeChat Partners with Picup Delivery Service to Improve Courier Experiences
Tencent’s WeChat has partnered with Picup, a new on-demand goods collection and delivery service to bring social experiences to courier services. The exclusive partnership was announced at a media...
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With “WeReward” Campaign in the Philippines, WeChat Rewards Loyal Users
If you happen to live in the Philippines and you’re also a WeChat app user, be prepared to be rewarded for your loyalty to the popular messaging app. That’s because WeChat, a messaging app powered by...
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WeChat for Windows Provides Powerful File Sharing and Screenshot Tools With...
Yesterday, WeChat introduced WeChat for Windows desktop (English version), and after playing with the software for almost a day, I can safely say that it’s not only easy to stay connected with all of...
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Juniper Research: Mobile Messaging Revenues to Decline as Traffic Increases
New data from Juniper Research, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, has shown that the messaging market will decline from $113.5bn in 2014 to...
View ArticleJuniper Research: Traffic from Mobile, Online Messaging to Reach 438 Billion...
New data from Juniper Research, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector as well as consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary, has shown...
View ArticleGlobalWebIndex: Users of Messaging Apps Up by 39% in the Past Three Years
New research by GlobalWebIndex reveals the major effect that the growth of mobile instant messaging (IM) users are having on other forms of mobile communications. In its Q2 Mobile Messaging Report,...
View ArticleWeChat Returns to Fashion With the Release of new Vogue Italy account
If you’re a fashion aficionado, you’ll likely find something to love by following Vogue Italy’s official WeChat account, which was just opened on the popular Asia-based chat application. The account,...
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Juniper Research: Payments via Social Media to Drive Mobile Money...
Payments via social apps and networks are hugely popular, and a new report from Juniper Research, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, indicates...
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WeChat celebrates Singapore’s 50th birthday with locally-designed Ang Ku Kueh...
Localized content is big with WeChat as it makes strides to close the gap on WhatsApp and become the world’s go-to messaging application. The most recent representation of its local focus is today’s...
View ArticleWeChat jumps to 600 million monthly active users
If you’re betting on Chinese messaging app WeChat to be knocked out of the messaging app race anytime soon, you’ll find yourself on the losing end, as WeChat owner Tencent revealed earlier today in its...
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8 mobile chat apps for group messaging
Sometimes, you may want to share a picture of your cute puppy with many friends at a time. Or planning to throw a party and need to post the address to all attendees. Mobile chat apps will help you...
View ArticleWeChat users can now create, “Favorite,” and share rich media messages on iOS
WeChat 6.2.5 for iOS has just been released and includes the ability to create and save rich media messages under your “Favorites.” You can also send them to another chat conversation. The rich media...
View ArticleWeChat fixes security flaw in the latest update for iOS
A security flaw was discovered recently in WeChat that was caused by an external piece of malware and affected iOS users who were running WeChat version 6.2.5 exclusively. Many feared the security flaw...
View ArticleWeChat adds 3D Touch to its app for iPhone 6S, 6S Plus
Hot on the heels of an update that fixes a security flaw in its messaging application, Tencent has just released a new update for its WeChat app that specifically targets the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S...
View ArticleWeChat version 6.3.5 for iOS brings voice and video calling for groups
If you’ve ever wanted to make a voice or video call with multiple friends on WeChat, then you’ll love the latest update for iOS, available as of today. The new update allows “WeChatters” to start voice...
View ArticleWeChat now charging for mobile money transfers
It goes without saying that WeChat is one of the most popular messaging apps around. In fact, it’s the only app that’s giving Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp — both owned by social giant Facebook — a...
View ArticleBubble Pup makes a comeback with new WeChat sticker pack
WeChat has just launched a new sticker pack that brings the “cuteness” of Bubble Pup back. The new Bubble Pup 2 sticker pack is now available and features the adorable puppy and his sidekick in a...
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How do WeChat users live? New data reveals some interesting insights
WeChat ranks as the third most popular messaging application behind WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, but the actual lifestyles of its users are somewhat different, as WeChat has recently revealed....
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