{"id":154886,"date":"2023-01-08T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/will-twitter-paypal-and-walmart-compete-to-launch-americas-super-app"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:09:43","slug":"will-twitter-paypal-and-walmart-compete-to-launch-americas-super-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/will-twitter-paypal-and-walmart-compete-to-launch-americas-super-app","title":{"rendered":"Will Twitter, PayPal and Walmart compete to launch America\u2019s super app?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-twitter-paypal-and-walmart-compete-to-launch-americas-super-app2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who has the best odds of winning?<\/p>\n<p>In October, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1577428272056389633?lang=en\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cBuying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.\u201d According to Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood, Musk is \u201cthinking about a super app like WeChat Pay.\u201d Keep in mind that Musk founded X.Com and merged it with Confinity to create PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>For context, China\u2019s WeChat launched as a messaging service in 2011 and has since become a combination of Meta, Apple Pay, Venmo, Amazon, Uber, Robinhood, Rocket Mortgage, Kayak and Healthcare.gov \u2014 as well as more than 3.5 million partner \u201cmini programs\u201d that operate inside the app. PayPal and Walmart have been teasing their own versions of financial super apps since at least September 2021 but with much less fanfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who has the best odds of winning? In October, Musk tweeted: \u201cBuying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.\u201d According to Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood, Musk is \u201cthinking about a super app like WeChat Pay.\u201d Keep in mind that Musk founded X.Com and merged it with Confinity to create PayPal. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154887,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154886\/revisions\/154887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}