Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps
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NOYB files complaints against AliExpress, Shein, TikTok, Xiaomi, Temu, and WeChat over claims they are unlawfully sending EU user data to China
TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi (1810.HK) and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb …
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds
Paresh Dave / Wired : Bluesky: @couts Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: Rumble and 14 other companies (only 4 of which were previously name) is being investigated by the Texas attorney general ov...
Sources: Apple approves a WeChat update for iOS, as revenue-sharing IAP talks continue with Tencent to block links to external payment services in mini games
- At stake are billions of dollars of fees from in-game sales — Apple and Tencent are negotiating future of WeChat mini-games
Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's WeChat Pay on its Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms, as Chinese government crackdown on Alibaba ends
Bloomberg :
Tencent's WeChat, ByteDance's Douyin, Kuaishou, and others post similar notices asking users with 500K+ followers to reveal their real names, following Weibo
Bloomberg :
Canada bans WeChat and Moscow-based Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices as they “present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security”
Canada on Monday banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices due … Source: Government of Canada .
Alipay has quietly started testing money transfers through WeChat in September, available for a small number of users with a maximum of ~$278 per transfer
The wall separating China's two leading mobile payment systems may have started to crack after Ant Group's Alipay rolled out a trial service …