WeChat dominance attacked
By Gao Yuan | China Daily | Updated: 2013-04-01 05:47
A woman using her smartphone's WeChat service to talk to her friend. Tencent's WeChat is experiencing strong challenges from its counterparts, including Phone Plus, which is also an online chatting app developed by China-based Longmaster Information & Technology Co. Sun Zhan / For China Daily |
Biggest of all the voice-messagers attracts attention of rivals hungry for market share
As more and more Chinese smartphone owners start to use mobile Internet-based messaging applications instead of short messages and voice calls, local Internet companies are vigorously seeking opportunities to challenge WeChat, the most-used voice-messaging app in the country.
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