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...“The dominance of the Taobao and T-Mall ecommerce platforms initially helped make Alipay the default digital wallet in China,” said Jeff Galvin, partner at McKinsey in Hong Kong....
...The cost-per-click of Tencent Social Ads, which run on its WeChat and QQ messaging platforms, rose to Rmb1.6 last year from Rmb0.5 in 2013....
...Meanwhile, at least six major department store and shopping mall chains accept QR code payments through WeChat. “The central bank just suspended QR payments but didn’t ban them....
...Mr Liu of JD.com said he remains confident of the prospects for WeChat and QQ....
...“The store is in an underground mall and there are more than 30 fire exits,” said Mr Huang. “Walmart used them every day, entering through one and leaving from another....
...“You can’t even speak of competition between the QQ platform and Taobao Mall because Taobao is so far ahead,” said Wang Tingting, an analyst at iResearch....
...QQ, in China, has more than 78 million users. Japan has a site called Mixi....
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