2/13/2025 2:45:40 PM Legend raises $15m in Seed funding By Cristobal de Atucha San Francisco based DeFi superapp business raised $15m in Seed funding led by a16z and Coinbase Ventures.
10/17/2024 3:49:46 PM Uber explored takeover bid for Expedia By Sarah Wolter In recent years, Uber has expanded from its ride-hailing roots into train and flight bookings, food delivery, corporate logistics and...
11/6/2023 3:15:37 PM Coinbase Q3 results signal its future as ‘crypto super app’ By FinTech Collective Though Coinbase’s trading volumes have continued to drop, analysts said the crypto exchange’s third quarter results signal its other...
7/24/2023 1:01:54 PM Twitter changes logo to X in corporate rebranding By Sarah Wolter The company plans to shift from being a text-focused platform to integrating more audio, video and payments features and is looking to...
7/18/2023 3:27:19 PM Asian tech rivals pare back ‘superapp’ approach as losses mount By Sarah Wolter Grab and GoTo, southeast Asia’s biggest start-ups before their listings, took inspiration from the grandfather of superapps, Tencent’s...
4/12/2023 2:08:40 PM Twitter company ‘no longer exists,’ is now part of Musk’s X By Sarah Wolter Musk has professed his desire to make X similar to China’s WeChat, a super-app owned by Tencent Holdings used for everything from...
4/3/2023 4:37:43 PM Elon Musk revives old banking dream in pursuing $250b Twitter valuation By Sarah Wolter Key to his effort, Musk has said, is putting the social-media company at the center of users’ financial lives, where Twitter users can...
10/7/2022 1:33:41 PM Musk's "super app" vision By Sarah Wolter The concept of an "everything app" or a "super app" — which serves as a hub for multiple services within a single user interface — is...
10/7/2022 1:29:55 PM Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ plan for Twitter rekindles dotcom dream By Sarah Wolter Since launching his original bid in April, Musk has said that owning Twitter is more about preserving the platform as an open venue for...
4/22/2022 12:17:50 AM Treinta raises $46m in new funding By Sarah Wolter Colombia based financial superapp for small businesses raised $46m in new funding led by PayU.
9/22/2021 12:50:42 PM PayPal launches its ‘super app’ combining payments, savings, bill pay, crypto, shopping and more By Sarah Wolter These changes shift PayPal from being largely a payments utility that’s tacked on other offerings here and there, to being a more fully...
5/6/2021 1:54:10 PM PayPal to launch super app in Q3 2021 By Sarah Wolter PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman’s interest of late has been in telling the tale of the connected economy and PayPal’s role in it as...
8/28/2020 12:17:21 AM The transformation of Ant Financial By Sarah Wolter Today, Ant is aiming for a valuation of $200b to $300b in a dual-listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, although meetings with investors are...
8/11/2020 12:18:26 AM Facebook Financial formed to pursue company’s payments plans By Sarah Wolter This is the latest step in a companywide effort to bring Facebook’s individual products and apps closer together. The belief is that if...
8/6/2020 6:26:09 PM Grab launches micro-investment, third-party loan and BNPL offerings By Sarah Wolter Grab, the Singapore-founded car share turned super app, is further reinforcing its position in the financial services sector with a...