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QR codes offer Tencent a fresh opportunity in Southeast Asia

05/17/202405/16/2024 Stephanie Beck

QR Codes - Payments - Southeast Asia Map

The quick response barcodes offer a new way for the Chinese company to expand in mobile payments. Tencent is looking to QR codes as a strong opportunity to expand its mobile payments system throughout more of Southeast Asia, using its WeChat Pay. The Chinese giant’s digital wallet is already ubiquitous domestically Tencent spoke at the edge of the Money 20/20 conference this year on the subject of technology in Asia. There, a company exec said that by linking QR code mobile payment systems cross-border, WeChat Pay – called Weixin Pay…

Apple ordered to remove WhatsApp from the App Store in China

04/24/202404/23/2024 Stephanie Beck

The iPhone maker has removed the popular messaging application from the shop in the country Apple has announced that it has been required to remove the WhatsApp messaging application by Meta from the App Store in China in order to comply with regulations issued by Beijing. The Threads application was also required to be removed Both WhatsApp and Threads were taken down from the App Store when Apple received an order from Chinese authorities to do so. Officials from the country cited national security concerns without any additional details regarding…

QR code accidentally shared online leads to $60,000 restaurant bill

01/12/202401/11/2024 Stephanie Beck

A woman in China mistakenly posted the quick response barcode online, letting others place orders. A woman living in China was understandably shocked, when she received a bill for about US$60,300 (430,000 Chinese yuan), after having accidentally shared the ordering QR code online, giving others the ability to place food orders on her tab. The woman was posting pictures on WeChat and mistakenly included the table’s ordering barcode. Though the woman’s intention was only to share pictures of the food she had ordered at the hotspot restaurant when she and…

Canadian government bans WeChat Chinese app from its devices

11/10/202311/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

Chinese app ban - Image of Canadian federal government building

The country officially announced that the application is banned on all government gadgets. Canada’s federal government has announced that it is banning the popular Chinese app WeChat from all its devices. WeChat, often nicknamed the “everything app”, is like a combination of many other popular applications. The Chinese app is somewhat like a combination of Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon and Tinder, all in one place. That said, there are some substantial concerns about the application among Western governments. Mainly, this has to do with the potential for the application to be…

Apple launches WeChat mobile commerce store

07/18/202307/17/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

The iPhone maker has announced that it has opened a shop on Tencent’s messaging app in China. Apple recently announced that it has launched a new mobile commerce store in China on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app. This is the latest step the iPhone maker has taken to expand its retail channels in the country. China’s massive market represents a tremendous opportunity for Apple, which is making a number of moves to make itself more present in the country. The iPhone giant is using mobile commerce as its latest strategy to…