China’s SOEs Limit Use Of Tencent App Weixin: WSJ

Some Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are restricting employees’ use of Tencent Holdings’s popular domestic messaging app, citing security concerns, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Managers at at least nine SOEs, including China Mobile, China Construction Bank and China National Petroleum Corporation, told employees that any chat groups set up for work purposes on Weixin—Tencent’s dominant messaging app should be shut down and deleted.

Read the full report: The Wall Street Journal

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