Alipay bears cost of system error that applied discounts to user transactions

Alipay bears cost of system error that applied discounts to user transactions

Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments platform, will bear the expense from unexpected losses that it incurred on Thursday, when a system error gave a 20 per cent discount to an undisclosed number of user transactions. The error, which was caused by a back-end misconfiguration in the app’s promotional campaign, applied an “immediate deduction” to the … Read more

Snapchat Gains Users But Continues To Lose Money

Snapchat Gains Users But Continues To Lose Money

Snap shares plunged more than 16 percent on Thursday when a disappointing financial outlook eclipsed a rise in users of the image-centric social network Snapchat. California-based Snap said its loss in the recently-ended quarter shrank to $249 million from $377 million in the same period a year earler, while revenue grew to $1.2 billion from … Read more