There’s plenty of speculation that Facebook will introduce mobile payments to its Messenger app in the future, and South Korea’s top chat_app is giving the US company a glimpse of how it could_work. Kakao — which completed a $3 billion merger_recently and has_154 million registered users worldwide_– teased a payments solution in February, and now KakaoPay_has launched._Available in Korea — where it_claims an incredible 93 percent installation rate on all smartphones — the service is integrated into the Kakao Talk app and will_virtually store up to 20 credit and debit cards. KakaoPay is initially rolling out for Android, but there...
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