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Chinese tech giant buys 5% stake in Afterpay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... fintech and cloud services provider listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its communications platforms include Weixin, WeChat and QQ. It also has a digital payments service, Weixin Pay, which facilitates an average of over one billion commercial transactions ...

Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... circulated on social media. "The prices regularly appear on the Weibo platform, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and on the WeChat app, a WhatsApp equivalent," Argus said. Argus chief executive, Adrian Binks, said the company is vigorously fighting ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... lecturer. Ma Huateng (Pony May) has an engineering background and co-founded Tencent in 1998 which owns popular messaging app WeChat. Some technology tycoons will live to see their net worth rise to a trillion dollars. This includes Michael Dell, founder ...

Global bank tests customer service 'bot'

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... latest study by UN-based not-for-profit organisation Better Than Cash Alliance revealed in China, social media network WeChat and third-party online payment platform Alipay, generated US$2.9 trillion in digital social payments in 2016. It represents ...

Westpac minimises disruption with disruption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... developed by fintech start-up PayKey and can be used within apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat and WeChat, as well as default text messaging apps. Payments and interactions can only be made to contacts already existing as a ...

Mirae backs Asian consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... also seeing the huge time being spent on the digital experience. In India, Facebook would have close to 120 million users. WeChat, which is owned by 10Cent, would have 500 million users in China, 90% of which are at the site daily." He adds a simple ...

ASIC stops Bitcoin miner discussing IPO

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... investors' behalf. Prior to registration as an Australian company with ASIC, Bitcoin Group published statements on social app WeChat seeking interest in buying Bitcoin Group shares should the company become listed on the ASX. According to ASIC's statement ...
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