PayPal + Pinterest would create a formidable Content Fortress | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert

While it’s hard not to love Stripe and its operational excellence, they're often not the sole payment processor a company uses. Companies with scale tend to integrate with a handful of payment processors, gateways, and banks to manage payment inflows and outflows through a distributed architecture. On top of integrating across many payment systems,... See more

"If Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard passes review, Microsoft would enter the mobile space with the benefit of a scaled content portfolio, an identity management system, and advertising infrastructure. The integration of these assets, post-acquisition, is certainly not trivial, but the opportunity is substantial: a logged-in subscribe

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