Several health-and-fitness trackers have gone on sale in China, revealing that messaging-app maker's efforts to become a software platform for wearables and eventually "everything." Francis Bea CNET ...

A researcher of culturally sensitive design explains WeChat’s significance for the Chinese diaspora and what will be lost if the U.S. succeeds in banning it. On the day before WeChat was ordered to be ...

On the surface, Chinese messaging app WeChat seems similar to its western counterparts like WhatsApp and Viber. Like Facebook-owned WhatsApp, it allows you to send text messages to people over an ...

(Yicai) Dec. 4 -- Tencent Holdings’ super app WeChat and two major mobile banking apps are among several said to block a new mobile artificial intelligence agent developed by TikTok owner ByteDance as ...

Just as quickly as the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the parameters of prohibitions on transactions involving TikTok and WeChat, pursuant to Executive Orders 13942 and 13943, respectively, ...

Tencent Holdings Ltd, China’s largest listed Internet company, announced on Wednesday that its popular messaging app WeChat had 438 million monthly active users during the second quarter of 2014, up ...

Unlike TikTok, with its widespread popularity among Americans, WeChat in the U.S. is mostly used by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and its potential ban received considerably less attention ...

While a federal judge has temporarily blocked a ban of WeChat from US app stores, there are other messaging and social media apps out there. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, ...

For Zhang Lianping, a 72-year-old retired small business owner in College Park, Maryland, WeChat is a lifeline for staying in touch with relatives, old classmates and friends spread across Beijing, ...