Showing posts with label messaging app. Show all posts
Showing posts with label messaging app. Show all posts

Thursday, May 09, 2019

Facebook's Push to Make Money Off WhatsApp: A Mobile Payment

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Facebook has been seeking ways to make money from the messaging service WhatsApp and has been testing payments via the app since last year in India, WhatsApp’s largest market with more than 200 million users.

Where will the rollout start?  Facebook intends to drive a global expansion of mobile payments on WhatsApp from London, accelerating its efforts to make money off the popular messaging service.  They are dispatching engineers from Britain to support its initiative.

Read more about how Facebook is plotting a global expansion of mobile payments on WhatsApp.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Set Your Sights on Global Market

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As a Melbourne, Australia mother, Julie Bray was juggling running a small business with being a school mom, and the request to "bring a plate" caught her out more than once.  Hence, it triggered her to start a business that sends out notifications through a smartphone app called Konnective.  What distinguishes Konnective from existing social media platforms?
Ms Bray answered that Konnective's annual subscription model for companies is cost effective compared with messaging via SMS, that it does not have limitations on group size, and it avoids the "noise" of social media networks or email lists where "everybody hits reply all."
She has set her sights on the global marketplace. Learn more:  Julie Bray is turning a parental fail into a global business with smartphone app