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, ...

Uber will offer a discount of at least 40 per cent during Lunar New Year for new mainland users who join via its WeChat ...

In China, western media is not allowed, hence users cannot access the world's most popular free chat application, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, to make free calls and texts. One local app, however, ...

Musk has not been shy about his desire to emulate the success of WeChat. In June, at a town hall with Twitter employees, he compared the American company’s potential to that of Tencent’s ubiquitous ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Oneplus 6 with WeChat app on the screen in Chiang Mai, Thailand on May 11, 2019. WeChat is a ...

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What if we had an app on our phones that combined the functions of Facebook Messenger, Venmo payments, MyPatientChart health records and WhatsApp for making voice calls, and also allowed us to ...

TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores starting on Sunday, September 20th, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has announced. The Chinese-owned apps from Tencent and ByteDance will not ...

WeChat, called Weixin in China, functions like Facebook (FB), LinkedIn, Uber, Instagram and several other apps all at once. For many Chinese people, WeChat is an indispensable app for staying in touch ...

The Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media has been tasked with probing the risk posed to the nation's democracy by foreign interference through social media. Twitter, Google, ...

TL;DR: WeChat messages and conversations are not encrypted end-to-end, meaning the app's servers can decrypt and read every message. However, users of the popular messaging app might be concerned to ...