Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, the companies said in a Monday (Dec. 8) press release. Together,...
Apple reportedly reached a payments agreement with Chinese tech giant Tencent. The new arrangement will see Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases of mini games and apps from Tencent’s WeChat social media platform, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Nov. 13), citing unnamed sources....
Chinese tech giant Tencent says its artificial intelligence (AI) investments have begun paying off. In releasing its quarterly earnings on Wednesday (May 14), the company’s CEO noted that its AI capabilities had “contributed tangibly” to its gaming and advertising businesses. Revenue was up 13% year...
Apple reportedly approved an update to Tencent Holdings’ WeChat app, just in time for the release of the iPhone 16. The move by Apple allows for further negotiations between the two companies regarding changes that Apple has demanded for the social media platform, Bloomberg reported...
August 03, 2023
Super apps like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat have become super successful in Asia. Their market dominance in turn has made Western entrepreneurs “super” interested in building their own, perhaps none more so than Elon Musk. The South African-born tech titan has recently added more fuel to the fire by replacing the longtime bluebird logo of […]
October 25, 2017
Differentiating a banking and mobile payments platform from its competitors can seem like an impossible task. When two services provide only basic functionality it’s easy to see why consumers and...
September 04, 2017
Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe and North America now supported and South America...
July 20, 2017
While there is still much in the way of debate in the U.S. and the rest of the developed West about the shape of things to come with the mobile...
March 22, 2026
China’s Tencent has integrated the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent with its WeChat messaging platform. That’s according to a report Sunday (March 22) from Reuters, which calls the integration a move by the company to deepen its push into AI agents as that technology becomes a crucial battleground among tech companies in China. The company’s ClawBoy […]
December 08, 2025
Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global,...
November 13, 2025
Apple reportedly reached a payments agreement with Chinese tech giant Tencent. The new arrangement will see Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases of mini games and...
May 14, 2025
Chinese tech giant Tencent says its artificial intelligence (AI) investments have begun paying off. In releasing its quarterly earnings on Wednesday (May 14), the company’s CEO noted that its AI...