This includes TenPay and WeChat Payment, which is linked to the hugely popular
mobile messaging app WeChat, known as Weixin in China.
Last week, online Chinese real estate investment platform Uoolu.com released a guide for Chinese buyers interested in North Korean real estate, while popular accounts on
the mobile messaging app WeChat have been posting articles about the country's housing market in recent weeks.
Not exact matches
First released in 2011,
WeChat started out as Tencent's
mobile messaging app.
WeChat currently has 650 million users and is China's most popular
mobile messaging app.
While many global giants, including
WeChat and Line are keeping a close eye on their userbase growth in the country, homegrown Hike
messaging app is trying to capture the largest chunk of the local
mobile messaging market, after crossing over 35 million active users mark recently.
Their
mobile push is in response to huge competition from location - based
messaging apps such as
WeChat, Momo and Line — which see a lot of dating and hookup activity.
Tencent leveraged its 980 million monthly active users on the
WeChat mobile messaging app, the 653 million monthly active users on its older QQ
messaging platform and the company's attendant social network (think Facebook) to juice growth of its video streaming offering, according to analysis from The Motley Fool.
As someone who keeps an eye on tech news worldwide — and particularly in Asia — I can't help but notice the increasing prevalence of
mobile messaging apps, and the benefits that snapping up a service like Line, Nimbuzz, KakaoTalk or (less likely) Tencent - owned Weixin (branded
WeChat outside of China) would provide.
Propelled by its gaming business and
WeChat — the
mobile commerce and really
mobile everything platform masquerading as a
messaging app, which has 980 million monthly users — Tencent's revenue last quarter reached almost $ 10 billion, growing more than 60 percent year over year.
Messaging apps as alternatives to pricey SMS was a void waiting to be filled on
mobile, where
apps like LINE, Kakao Talk, Whatsapp,
WeChat, Kik, Tango, Viber and others each attract hundreds of millions of users.
Nonetheless, Weixin (and its global «
WeChat» version) are further proof of the rise of
mobile messaging apps.
The most popular
apps according to Statistica are: WhatsApp 1 300 000 000 Facebook Messenger 1 300 000 000
WeChat 980 000 000 QQ
Mobile 843 000 000 Skype 300 000 000 As
messaging become more popular customers are demanding not only a better user experience but are concerned about privacy, confidentiality, and security.