Social Payments news and trends

ChangeTip’s New App Enables Bitcoin Tips
Mobile Commerce // November 04, 2015

ChangeTip is changing the way micropayments are done — via mobile. And now, it’s changing up the tipping scene some more with its new iOS app that allows a person to tip anyone around the world in either bitcoin or USD. ChangeTip, a social tipping and...

Ping Pay In India — Payments The Social Media Way
Mobile Commerce // May 15, 2015

Axis, India’s third largest private bank, recently released a mobile payments service called Ping Pay that lets customers send money using social media, including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and more “old school” outlets including phone numbers and emails. Axis’s Ping Pay app, developed in partnership with Singaporean venture...

Another Player Enters Embed Payments Into Mobile Messaging
News // December 05, 2014

Line, the mobile messaging platform, is crossing into the payments sphere with its new Line Pay service that will launch worldwide next week on Dec. 8, VentureBeat reported. Line Pay users can use their messaging accounts to make digital payments through a credit card anywhere and...

Twitter Expands To Cards
Acquiring // November 26, 2014

There hasn’t been much chirping from Twitter executives about its payments plans recently, but on Tuesday (Nov. 25) the company announced its newest link into the payments world: “Twitter Offers.” Twitter acquired the mobile payment system CardSpring in July but didn’t reveal plans about how...

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Airbnb In Talks To Acquire Tilt

January 25, 2017
Home share service Airbnb is reportedly in talks to acquire social payments startup Tilt (formerly Crowdtilt) for a price potentially over $50 million, said TechCrunch, noting that things could still change. Other sources, such as The Information, peg the porential acquisition price as somewhere between $10 million and $20 million. Either way, the speculative prices are […]

ChangeTip’s New App Enables Bitcoin Tips

November 04, 2015
ChangeTip is changing the way micropayments are done — via mobile. And now, it’s changing up the tipping scene some more with its new iOS app that allows a person to...

Ping Pay In India — Payments The Social Media Way

May 15, 2015
Axis, India’s third largest private bank, recently released a mobile payments service called Ping Pay that lets customers send money using social media, including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and more “old school” outlets...

Another Player Enters Embed Payments Into Mobile Messaging

December 05, 2014
Line, the mobile messaging platform, is crossing into the payments sphere with its new Line Pay service that will launch worldwide next week on Dec. 8, VentureBeat reported. Line Pay users...