Blog Tag - WeChat

WeChat Mini-Apps Event: Behind the Hype, Feb 13
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. On January 9, WeChat officially launched mini-apps after much fanfare and speculation...
New WeChat Feature Shows That Starbucks is No Longer a Foreign Brand
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. After the stunning success of hongbao (红包 or “lucky money” in English) and the more...
WeChat Introduces Gold Hongbao to Promote New Financial Product
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. WeChat began testing a new lucky money feature during the recent Chinese New Year...
Even When Not Playing, WeChat Still Wins the 2017 Hongbao Wars
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. This year’s hongbao war winner goes to WeChat, who sent out 14.2 billion red envelopes...
DP Tech Check: Will WeChat Pay Turn Beijing Into a Cashless City?
While your friends from out of town may be shocked by Beijing's opportunities to settle up via WeChat Pay, those visitors are sure to be floored by...
Tech Check: 4 Little Known WeChat Functions That You Need to Try
From messaging to topping up our mobile minutes to (best of all) sending hóngbāo, there seem to be few facets of our lives that haven't become...
WeChat How To: Grouping Contacts for Privacy
There are three types of people in social media: people who are all business, people who share everything 10 times a day, and people who are in...
New to WeChat?: How to Find and Set Up Your WeChat Wallet
Quite a few people from the community have reached out to us, asking for a WeChat Wallet guide (for a guide to adding a card to WeChat Wallet, scroll...
Never Miss a Beat With the Beijinger's Newsletter, WeChat, and Facebook Events Page
You wanna know what's going on in the capital? There's no better way than having the info delivered to you wherever you are. For those of you into...
WeChat Wallet: Tips on Protecting Your Money
Online or offline payments have been made super convenient for most of us that have WeChat Wallet. The risk of online payment is that hackers can...
DP The 2016 US Presidential Election Gifs you Need on Your WeChat
You're probably sick of hearing about the election now, right? Whatever side of the political spectrum you fall on, maybe you feel like nothing good...
World Collapsing Upon Itself: Tuzki the White Rabbit WeChat Sticker Gets His Own Film
Tuzki (兔斯基, Tùsījī), the popular rabbit WeChat and Facebook sticker, is set to hop into movie theaters Roger Rabbit-style, it was announced yesterday...
Renrenxiang, The Noodles from The Future, But Not The Future We Like
Picture yourself entering a restaurant: no one shows you to your seat, no one takes your order, no one serves your food, and no one cleans up for you...
Shameless Has No Shame: Add ShamelessPlus Today
We knew it wouldn't be long. Shameless is back with a new account called ShamelessPlus, barely a week after Shameless was taken offline. We asked...
This Week's Must Do's in Self Improvement: Make Money Off We-Chat, Achieve Your Dreams, Learn About A.I., Public Speaking in Chinese
Just because it is the perfect weather to sit outside and do nothing but soak up those rays all day long doesn't mean that you've got to put your...