Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft recently considered building a “super app” combining shopping, messaging, search, news, and other services, drawing inspiration from WeChat — Microsoft recently considered building a “super app” that could combine shopping, messaging, web search …
Jennifer Conrad / Wired:
WeChat, used by millions of Chinese Americans, is one of the main venues for Chinese-language misinformation in the US and may influence the 2022 US midterms — Ahead of US midterms, activists are fighting falsehoods circulating in Chinese-language communities that they fear will distort the vote or suppress turnout.
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Alipay has quietly started testing money transfers through WeChat in September, available for a small number of users with a maximum of ~$278 per transfer — The wall separating China’s two leading mobile payment systems may have started to crack after Ant Group’s Alipay rolled out a trial service …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022 — Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils Supply Chain Center software in preview to help customers track supply chains by combining data from its own programs plus Oracle and others — Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft details the Surface Pro 9, combining the Pro X and Pro, with an SQ3 Arm chip or Intel’s 12th Gen CPUs, available October 25, starting at $1,000 — Microsoft is combining its Surface Pro X and Surface Pro lines into a single product this year, the Surface Pro 9.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google announces updates for Search to help users find dishes near them; Maps, including expanding Live View; and Shopping, adding AR tools for makeup shopping — Google announced today that it’s introducing a slew of new Maps, Search and Shopping features.
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