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147 articles accelerating

WeChat has appeared in 147 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside China, Tencent, Chinese, Facebook.

Articles
147
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.500
velocity change
Sources
34
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-02-02
Bloomberg 4 related

ByteDance sues Tencent over alleged monopolies in WeChat and QQ, claiming violation of antitrust laws by blocking access to content from Douyin

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :

2020-09-25
Reuters 2 related

Justice Department asks a federal judge to allow the government to bar Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge in San Francisco early on Friday to allow the government …

2020-09-21
CNBC 34 related

US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday

one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...

2020-09-20
CNBC 15 related

US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday

A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove Tencent Holding's WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.

2020-04-26
New York Times

Two former Huawei employees, who had labor disputes with the company, say they were detained by China after discussing Huawei sales to Iran in a WeChat group

China arrested five former employees who had discussed the tech giant's Iranian sales in a chat group, raising questions about its government ties. Tweets: @hadinili , @mdubowitz , @julianku , @scs_di...

2019-07-25
Bloomberg 3 related

FTC's Facebook settlement does little to hamper the company's ad business or data collection practices, mostly re-committing Facebook to previous goals

“Mr. Zuckerberg does remain the controlling shareholder, but his power over privacy in particular will be diffused.” Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Facebook's $5 billion agreement with the FTC is offici...

2018-01-16
Wall Street Journal 9 related

Apple and Tencent reach deal to let WeChat users tip content creators after 2017 dispute over Apple's claim to 30% of tips; details of new deal not released

Wall Street Journal :

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

WeChat has appeared in 199 Techmeme articles since March 2015. The biggest stories include Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat... and Commerce Department announces that it will ban US downloads of and business transactions.... Frequently covered alongside Tencent, TikTok, Apple, Alipay, and Trump. Coverage has shifted toward research themes and away from enterprise, developer.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +100pts; safety +50pts; funding -50pts
2024Q3enterprise -50pts; safety -50pts; developer +50pts
2024Q4enterprise -50pts; developer +17pts; competition +33pts

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