Mobile app wars set to intensify
By Gao Yuan | China Daily | Updated: 2015-07-09 08:01
Alibaba unit takes on WeChat with updated online product that has greater social networking functions
The battle for mobile app supremacy in China has taken a new twist.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has thrown down the gauntlet to rival Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular messaging application WeChat by giving its own payment app Alipay greater social networking functions.
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