Alipay: A Chinese conglomerate’s bid to own your wallet
Alipay: A Chinese conglomerate’s bid to own your wallet
- January 31, 2018
- Bill Maurer, anthropology, via Emerge85, Jan. 31, 2018
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The conditions that allowed Alipay to flourish in China and ultimately play such a
huge role in people’s lives can’t be easily replicated, says Bill Maurer, an anthropologist
at the University of California – Irvine who studies how and why societies adopt mobile
payments.
For the full story, please visit https://emerge85.io/articles/alipay-a-chinese-conglomerates-bid-to-own-your-wallet/.
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