The team at Alibaba Group which developed Laiwang, the messaging app aiming to supplant Tencent’s WeChat, has stealthily launched a team collaboration app named Dingtalk, or Dingding.
Dingtalk is more like a WeChat app for business, enabling staff to search for colleagues and conduct one-on-one or group chats. With several Chinese tech companies, including WeChat and TouchPal, having recently developed apps for VoIP calls or added the feature to their existing apps, it’s no surprise to find free voice calls included in Dingtalk. The app has also integrated FaceTime.
Alibaba isn’t alone developing a WeChat-like app for businesses in China. The redesigned mobile apps of Salesforce-like service Fxiaoke and Yammer-like service Mingdao have adopted WeChat’s interface to help users pick up their services more quickly.
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