Facebook Messenger App Reaches 700 Million Users
Facebook held its annual shareholder meeting yesterday (June 11), when it revealed just how successful some of its top products have become. Like its standalone Facebook Messenger app, which has now...
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PYPL Countdown, Google Payments And Facebook Pay
Ah, summer vacation. But what a foreign concept for the biggest mobile payments players. PayPal will soon be independent, Google is crafting a new platform to manage all of its users’ mobile payments...
View ArticleFacebook Talks Buy Buttons And Monetization
It wouldn’t be a Facebook earnings call if CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t a bit vague about the same questions analysts have been asking quarter after quarter. Specifically, just how will Facebook monetize...
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New Facebook Features Help Businesses Connect With Users
Facebook has found a new way for businesses to directly connect with consumers, reported Reuters yesterday (Aug. 5). According to the article, local awareness ads can now include a “send message”...
View ArticleIs Messenger Moving Deeper Into Payments?
Facebook is bringing the ability to connect people who need to get things done with professional contractors who are up for the job to its Messenger service through a new partnership with Pro.com. The...
View ArticleWhat’s In A Messenger?
What’s in a name? Well, for Facebook, it’s about what’s in a Messenger. And about transforming social media into social commerce — something Facebook has remained fairly tight-lipped about, until...
View ArticleFacebook Snags Another PayPal Exec For Messenger
Facebook just got more serious about its Messenger team. And just like last year, the social networking giant has snagged a top player at PayPal to continue its payments and commerce push. TechCrunch...
View ArticlePayPal Platform Powers Facebook Payments
PayPal’s Braintree payments platform just announced what could be the next big thing in contextual commerce. Braintree announced today (Dec. 16) that it is the launch partner of Facebook Messenger‘s...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger Hits 800 Million Mark
Facebook Messenger, which officially joined the payments ecosystem in March 2015 when it added P2P payments, has reached another milestone: 800 active million users. That means, in theory, that there...
View ArticleEarly Warning Powers Top Banks’ Real-Time P2P Payments
The tech giants in the P2P payments space are about to get competition from six top U.S. banks. Early Warning, a real-time payments, authentication and risk mitigation solutions provider, announced...
View ArticleIs Facebook Prepping An In-Store Payments Play?
Recently discovered code within Facebook’s Messenger app hints at the company’s plans to give the platform capabilities on par with Apple Pay. As shared by AppleInsider, The Information has revealed,...
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Why Contextual Commerce Is The Next Big Thing
In January of this year, I wrote a piece in which I said there were six things that would shape the direction of payments and commerce in 2016. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.” I argued...
View ArticleFacebook Makes SMBs Scannable
Contacting and finding businesses on Facebook just got a little easier. The social network announced on Thursday (April 7) the launch of tools and updates that will help people to connect with...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger’s Chatbot Commerce Play
Facebook is set to make a big commerce splash with the launch of new features that would commerce-enable its Messenger app. The tech giant is reportedly planning to feature advanced commerce tools for...
View ArticleShopify Commerce Comes To Messenger
Shopify is taking its business to Facebook. Specifically, the eCommerce platform announced yesterday (April 12) that it has become the first company of its kind to integrate with the Facebook Messenger...
View ArticleThe Top Five Headlines At Five: What’s Trending Today
Got a minute? Or five? Here’s what’s trending today in the world of payments, commerce and….tattoo payments? Today’s Top 5 PYMNTS headlines: Max Levchin’s Affirm Rumored To Have Raised $100 Million...
View ArticleChatbots And The Future Of Facebook Messenger
Until about a couple of weeks ago, bots were mostly thought of as the last four letters of a word that began with “ro” and a concept that even Alphabet decided might not be ready for prime time. Well,...
View ArticleThe (Potential) Retail Payments Future Of Facebook Messenger
Forget private conversations, chatbots and customer service: Facebook Messenger could soon be delivering retail payments to its 900 million users. Facebook was in the news at the end of last month when...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger Receives Gift-Giving Chatbot API
Gift registry solutions provider Jifiti announced on Tuesday (May 17) that its digital gift-giving chatbot API was approved for use with Facebook Messenger. The approval will lay the foundation for the...
View ArticleCould Facebook Messenger Be The Next Trading Platform?
AJ Bell, a U.K. fund supermarket, could be looking to Facebook Messenger for an entirely new service to attract a younger audience — enabling investors to trade. The company announced that it intends...
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