(Bloomberg/Pei Li) — Tencent Holdings Ltd. has struck a deal with Apple Inc. that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, resolving a ...

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) will reportedly allow payments through Tencent’s (OTCPK:TCEHY) WeChat app on its ecommerce platforms Taobao and Tmall. The change is set to be effective in weeks, the Wall Street ...

There's an app for just about anything you can imagine. But what if you could get everything done with just one app? That's the promise behind so-called "super apps," or apps that run mini-programs ...

WeChat’s developers designed the app to be all-encompassing but not engrossing. That’s the key to its success. Musk promoted his super app project by referring to the Chinese all-in-one app WeChat.

Telegram, the popular messaging app with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent of WeChat’s super app approach. Certain ...

Apple has launched an online store on China’s WeChat app, the Tencent-owned platform said on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based company has launched the store to the app via WeChat’s mini-programs — ...

Chinese social media platform WeChat has incorporated the digital yuan in its payment app to boost the CBDC’s popularity. WeChat, China’s leading social networking and payment app, has added the ...

Musk has not been shy about his desire to emulate the success of WeChat. In June, at a town hall with Twitter employees, he compared the American company’s potential to that of Tencent’s ubiquitous ...

I found a hidden economy in my small college town made by and for Chinese consumers I found a hidden economy in my small college town made by and for Chinese consumers For an app with over a billion ...

As consumers increasingly prefer to consolidate their app usage, Super Apps that can provide a variety of services will be the ones to succeed. Shopping centers are great for knocking out all of your ...

A Chinese electronics company said it had bought the WeChat account legitimately, but some Australian officials said it was hijacked, and urged a boycott. By Yan Zhuang and John Liu MELBOURNE, ...

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat super app managed remarkable growth in services from e-commerce to payments and search over the past year, defying a government crackdown that sought to tear down ...