China (July 8, 2013): Tencent has announced that it will introduce its new online payment services into an upcoming version of WeChat, the China Daily reported. However, the exact date of the launch was not disclosed but it has released the beta version to some developers. Tencent’s new payment services aim to compete with Alibaba’s Alipay.

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