GETTING COMPETITIVE: Asian chat services such as WeChat are usurping the roles of telecom and Internet companies by emerging as an alternative distribution channel for adverts, apps, and goods and services. - Reuters
Asian chat services KakaoTalk, Line and WeChat threaten to overturn the mobile order of things, usurping the role of Google Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and telecoms carriers as gatekeeper to the consumer.
Where these internet and telecoms giants once controlled the lucrative choke points of the industry, social messaging services are fast emerging as an alternative distribution channel for adverts, apps, and goods and services.
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