抢占市场! 腾讯向印度输出数字红包!
China's Tencent is taking hongbao, or red packets, to India, in an intrepid step to further its global ambitions. Red packets, stuffed with cash and handed out at the Lunar New Year, are a Chinese phenomenon that has moved online: last year 64 billion packs changed hands over Tencent's payments platform. But now, with no more than a change of color and festival days, online gifts of cash are spreading to India. Delhi-based Hike Messenger, a Tencent-backed messaging unicorn, has begun offering "blue packets" to celebrate festivals such as Holi and Diwali. Hike founder Kavin Bharti Mittal said the Hike app had been downloaded 100m times and that it was targeting growth in mobile money transactions. "India has many festivals. The technology can help bring offline behavior online", he said. |