Tencent Holdings' Weixin, China's dominant messaging app which is known as WeChat outside the country, said on Thursday that average daily active users for its mini programs hit 450 million in 2021.
Android operating systems but are less data intensive, are key to Tencent's efforts to build its e-commerce operations.Weixin added that the number of active mini programs operated by overseas merchants increased 268% over the past two years, with total transaction volumes via those programs growing 897% over the same period of time.
More than 700 million users have used Weixin mini programs tailored to combat the pandemic such as ones used to book COVID-19 tests used by authorities, it also said at its annual developers conference in Guangzhou. Tencent saw revenue climb 13% in the third-quarter, the slowest growth since it went public in 2004, hurt by a regulatory crackdown that has impacted its games pipeline as well as its app updates.Reporting by Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh; Editing by Edwina GibbsSubscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.
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