For a short period, experts wondered if they would stick. Now, WeChat’s mini-programs have been making headlines for their exponential growth in popularity. Totaling more than half a million with more ...

Service providers in China have built over 800 Alipay mini programs in just two months, each with more than 10,000 monthly active users (MAU), since Alipay first announced a plan to help 40 million ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A user checks into the Ruiwo Smart Hotel in Hangzhou just with Alipay. (Image credit: Xinhua) ...

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WeChat isn’t the only one doubling down on lite apps. Ever since China’s messaging titan introduced “mini programs” two years ago, a handful of its peers, including Alibaba and Baidu, have followed ...

The partnership will see the European football governing body use the Alibaba-owned payment platform to create an account and mini-program to allow Chinese fans to access content about football in ...