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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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Instead, it was an ecosystem of apps that they used regularly and could access on their mobile phones: Uber, Amazon, Walmart, PayPal, Square, banking apps, OpenTable, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Venmo – and yes, WhatsApp and Messenger, to name but a few. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). It’s likely that Amazon was too early to P2P payments. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.