Tencent Resumes WeChat Signups As Gaming Concerns Persist
- The company suspended registrations last week for upgrades
- Its shares have swung wildly in recent days on crackdown fears
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Tencent Holdings Ltd. has resumed signing up users for its WeChat messaging app, days after suspending registrations for unspecified technical upgrades.
WeChat, which already has more than 1 billion users, halted signups last week to undergo a “security technical upgrade” to comply with regulations. The company said at the time it expected to resume new individual user registrations around early August. A company representative confirmed user reports on social media Thursday about the resumption.