wechat

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and became one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps in 2018, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

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Today In Payments: FinCEN Files Reveal Billions In Suspicious Money Flows; Chime Now More Valuable Than Robinhood
Today In Payments: FinCEN Files Reveal Billions In Suspicious Money Flows; Chime Now More Valuable...
September 21, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news FinCEN discovered an underworld of corruption in the world’s banks and how governments allow it to thrive, and challenger bank Chime...

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s WeChat Ban
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s WeChat Ban
September 20, 2020  |  Legal

Score one for WeChat. A California federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting WeChat, the social media app owned by China’s...

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Federal Judge Turns Down Request To Stop Upcoming WeChat Ban
Federal Judge Turns Down Request To Stop Upcoming WeChat Ban
September 18, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

Ahead of a ban on WeChat downloads that is set to take effect, a federal judge turned down a request to stop a Friday (Sept....

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Clock Ticks On TikTok, WeChat Bans – And eCommerce May Suffer
Clock Ticks On TikTok, WeChat Bans – And eCommerce May Suffer
September 18, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

Sunday looms as a red-letter day for TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat – and tens of millions of users who use the apps to conduct commerce....

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Trump Administration Announces TikTok And WeChat Bans To Start Sunday
Trump Administration Announces TikTok And WeChat Bans To Start Sunday
September 18, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

President Donald Trump will follow through on his pledge to ban downloads of TikTok and WeChat starting Sunday (Sept. 20).  The U.S. Commerce Department announced...

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Survey: WeChat Ban Will Hurt U.S. Businesses
Survey: WeChat Ban Will Hurt U.S. Businesses
August 26, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban WeChat will have the unintended consequences of hurting U.S. businesses in China, according to a new survey. The...

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WeChat Users Sue Trump Administration Over Ban
WeChat Users Sue Trump Administration Over Ban
August 23, 2020  |  Legal

A group of WeChat users filed a lawsuit against the President Donald Trump administration in a bid to block the president’s executive order that would...

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Big Business Takes Up Arms Against WeChat Ban
Big Business Takes Up Arms Against WeChat Ban
August 13, 2020  |  Politics

President Trump’s threat to ban WeChat in the U.S. has shaken the stock markets and is now roiling the corporate world. Shares of Tencent Holdings,...

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Apple iPhone Sales Could Plummet 30 Pct With WeChat Ban
Apple iPhone Sales Could Plummet 30 Pct With WeChat Ban
August 10, 2020  |  Retail

President Trump’s threatened bans on ByteDance’s TikTok and Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, both based in China, could significantly slash Apple’s sale of iPhones, per indications from a...

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