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WeChat today added a new WiFi connection plugin for its public accounts. The new feature offers Wi-Fi solution plans to bricks-and-mortar stores, connecting Wi-Fi service providers, offline merchants and customers. WeChat users will be able to enjoy free WiFi connection over WeChat public accounts when they enter the corresponding bricks-and-mortar stores. WiFi service providers and third-party developers will also gain access to more data from public accounts, helping them to manage user accounts, and so on. Tencent reportedly invested in WiWide, a leading domestic business WiFi business which received funding from Xiaomi last year.