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Media, social and consumer intelligence provider Meltwater and socially-led creative agency We Are Social have jointly released Digital 2024, their latest annual report on social media and digital trends worldwide.

A new study has revealed that mobile operators will lose out to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp to the tune of US$2.5 billion next year – an increase of 20% over 2022.

There are opportunities for Australian brands to sell their products into the Chinese market despite ongoing political tensions with 67% of China’s cross-border online shoppers expecting to increase their online spending for western and Australian goods in the coming year, according to a study by e-commerce platform Pattern.

Exactly why Australian politicians and some rent-a-quote merchants are up in arms over the government's loss of control over a WeChat account set up for Prime Minister Scott Morrison is hard to fathom.

WeChat has over 1.2 billion active users, predominantly in mainline China, but also throughout the world. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, was one of these until recently. The Prime Minister's Office began experiencing access issues before the account turned up as "Australian-Chinese New Life." Senior government politicians have accused China's government of foreign interference.

A ban on US investment in the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has been lifted, with the US Defence Department apparently unwilling to defend a Trump era action that claimed the company had ties to the Chinese military.

Though the US social commerce market is growing at a rapid pace, China is not likely to lose its position of dominance in the near future, according to Italian financial analyst site Finaria.

An appeals court in the US has dismissed a request from the Department of Justice that it be allowed to institute an immediate ban on Apple and Google offering the WeChat app for download in their respective mobile app stores.

Mobile subscriptions will recover by 3.4% in 2021 from a drop of a little more than 2% in 2020, the Economist Intelligence Unit has predicted in a new report, adding that the strongest growth would be seen in Asia and the Middle East.

A judge in the US has blocked the government from implementing a decision to make it mandatory for Apple and Google to remove the WeChat application from their respective app stores.

The United States has banned the downloading of TikTok and WeChat by residents, claiming this would be a threat to the country's national security.

The top 20 Asia-Pacific technology companies may face a rough time this year due to the volatile global situation and the the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the data and analytics firm GlobalData says.

If the US goes ahead and institutes a ban on the Chinese application WeChat, the company that will benefit the most will the one that Washington has had in its sights for nearly a decade: Huawei.

If Apple had to remove the WeChat app from its app store due to an executive order issued by US President Donald Trump, that would mean a loss of Chinese users who make up nearly a third of iPhone users around the globe, an influential Taiwanese stock analyst has warned.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

Global instant messaging users are forecast to reach reach 4.3 billion in 2020, rising from 3.9 billion in 2019, according to a new research report.

The outbreak of coronavirus in China offers a unique opportunity for vendors offering communications and collaboration services, according to one global analyst firm which says that organisations, need to continue to collaborate to remain productive.

The use of artificial intelligence and the implementation of social credit are two key overarching trends identified as drivers in a new report on use of the Internet in China.

"NetSuite companies do grow faster," according to Oracle NetSuite executive vice-president Evan Goldberg.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has avoided answering pointed questions posed by six US senators about the company's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, instead resorting to broad generalities such as the claim that the move would have “broad benefits inside and outside of China".