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Facebook has selected London as its base to develop WhatsApp payments

05/13/201905/12/2019 Stephanie Beck

The social network giant wants to drive the messenger service’s mobile payments globally Facebook is serious about developing WhatsApp payments and has chosen London, England as the center of the mobile payments platform’s development. The messenger service will hire on 100 new software engineers from London and Dublin. The reason that Facebook decided on London instead of a US city is that it is widely used in the UK and England’s capital city is known for attracting talent from other markets where WhatsApp is popular. This includes markets such as…

Mobile payments may be coming to WeChat

05/07/201305/06/2013 Jennifer Goula

The next version of the service is rumored to include smartphone transactions and paid publishing. It is already known for certain that the popular social messaging app, WeChat, from Tencent, will soon include a social gaming platform, but the latest rumor is that mobile payments will also be included in the mix. This is one of the three major features that Guan Peng is predicting for the application. Peng, an industry analyst, has said that the next WeChat app update, the v5.0 for Android and iPhone, will support three considerable…