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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by paganel on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:51AM (#35538818)
I don't think the European Union regulatory bodies would have allowed Facebook/Meta to integrate stuff like payments and, as such, to "become PayPal in the process". Maybe if that all had happened before 2015-2016, but in today's political and business climate I see no way for that being allowed to happen.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by manquer on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:32PM (#35542400)
Don’t have to launch in Europe . Payments aren’t like other SaaS apps launching in every country is lot of paperwork and apps will choose to work in only some geographies .

Also WhatsApp does integrate payments in some geographies so it is not like FB wasn’t already having a step there .

FB is just chasing fads, few years back it was libre coin at the peak of crypto interest . They will keep throwing stuff to see what sticks until they run out of money

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