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Following the latest regulations released to ban TikTok and WeChat in the United States, the US Commerce Department, at the direction of President Trump, delays the prohibition of  TikTok. On the other hand, US Judge Laurel Beeler also barred the department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove the messaging app WeChat for downloads by releasing a 22-page order. Tencent Holdings Ltd., a Chinese investment holding company and one of the largest Internet companies in the world, and owner of WeChat, is buying Supercell, the Finnish mobile development company behind Clash of Clans, for $8.6 billion. According to one source close to both Smart and Globe, the top mobile messaging apps in the Philippines is dominated by Viber, WeChat and Line. There are so many messaging apps and services out there so we know it's a fierce battle among the players -- Skype, iMessage, GTalk, Kakaotalk, Voxer, Line, WeChat, Whatsapp, Viber, SnapChat, Telegram. According to the source that gave us the numbers, Viber is on top with 35% of the base followed by WeChat at 30% and then Line at a little under 20%. Then, WeChat came into the scene and showed up in almost all App Stores locally available -- Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Symbian (it actually became the No. Read more in our articles including "US government delays ban to TikTok and WeChat" and "Tencent to acquire Clash of Clan developer Supercell for $8.6 billion".