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Facebook forms financial group to focus on payments

Post author By Randall
Post date August 10, 2020
Categories In david marcus, Facebook, facebook pay, financial, gear, libra, News, payments, Tech, tomorrow, whatsapp, whatsapp pay

[ad_1] The company believes that enabling such purchases makes advertising becomes more valuable. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he’s quite keen on growing in-app transactions. “As payments grow across Messenger and WhatsApp, and as we’re able to roll that out in more places, I think that will only grow as a trend,” he said […]

Senate panel schedules a hearing on Facebook’s cryptocurrency

Post author By Randall
Post date June 20, 2019
Categories In Blockchain, calibra, Cryptocurrency, david marcus, Facebook, gear, hearing, Internet, libra, regulation, senate, senate banking committee, Tech

[ad_1] It didn’t even take 48 hours after Facebook announced its cryptocurrency scheme for the government to raise an eyebrow. House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters called for Facebook to halt development, and now the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs has scheduled a hearing to cover both Libra/Calibra and privacy issues. […]