Over 45 million post-90s users in China signed up Alipay’s Huabei or Just Spend for online shopping payment according to a recent report by Alipay. This payment option serves as a virtual credit card for Chinese online shoppers on Alibaba’s Tmall and Taobao e-commerce sites.
Tencent’s new image patent challenging Google’s WebP
Tencent submitted a patent application to the State Intellectual Property Office on an image coding technology called Tiny Portable Graphics, or TPG. TPG image file size is smaller than JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and Google’s WebP based on a released experiment data.
Top hotel booking mobile apps in China in March 2017
eLong, Home Inns, and Booking lead China’s mobile hotel booking apps market in March 2017. eLong and Home Inns both recorded over one million monthly active users. Airbnb also ranks the sixth with 126% growth YoY.
China search engine market overview Q1 2017 (Updated)
China search engines market totaled 18.76 billion yuan (US$2.72 bn) in Q1 2017, with a decrease of 8.6% compared to Q4 2016 and an increase of 5.3% YoY.
Top comprehensive finance service apps in China in March 2017
Ping An Jinguanjia, Jingdong Finance, and Ant Fortune (Ant Financial) are the top 3 mobile apps in China’s comprehensive financial service category by the number of monthly active users in March 2017.
Top mobile music apps in China in March 2017
Kugou, QQ Music, and Kuwo are the top three online music mobile apps in China by MAU in March 2017. Kugou has close to 229 million monthly active users, closely followed by Tencent’s QQ Music with 211 million MAU.
Top mobile video apps in China in March 2017
Tencent Video and Baidu’s iQiyi are the top two mobile video apps by the number of monthly active users in China in March 2017. Both have exceeded 400 million MAU.
Meet Weibo Stories, similar to Facebook Stories
Weibo is testing a Facebook Stories-alike feature called Weibo Stories to gain more shares in China’s short video market.
Top 10 mobile news apps in China in March 2017
Tencent News, Toutiao, and Yidianzixun are the top 3 mobile news apps by MAU in China in March 2017, all exceeding 100 million active users.
Alipay integrates 6 bike-sharing apps, offering install-free experience
Starting on 29 April 2017, users can easily rent a bicycle from one of the six leading bike-sharing companies in China via Alipay without installing additional mobile apps.
China Mobile 4G customers reached 535M in 2016
China Mobile’s operating revenue reached 708.4 billion yuan in 2016, representing an increase of 6.0% from the previous year according to its official financial results.
Mobile apps usage overview in Q1 2017
More mobile apps in China have more than 10 million monthly active users in Q1 2017. The number of installed apps and app usage hours both increased compared to a year ago.
Top App Stores & mobile apps in China for Q1 2017
Apple App Store is the top mobile app store by total downloads in China in March 2017 while BAT lead the Android App Store market. And, Tencent owns the top 3 mobile apps.
Alipay’s internet fund Yu’E Bao exceeds 1 trillion yuan in Q1 2017
Yu’E Bao grows by over 40% QoQ in the first quarter of 2017 and totals 1.14 trillion yuan (US$170 bn).
China smartphone market insights for Q1 2017
iPhone has the highest retention rate (18.6%) in Q1 2017, followed by Huawei (13.4%). However, Huawei is the top smartphone brand in China by sales (19.2%) in the first quarter of 2017, followed by OPPO (18.7%).