WhatsApp 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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