{"id":1016754,"date":"2026-06-25T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016754"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:16:17","slug":"meta-makes-a-900-million-super-app-move-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/25\/meta-makes-a-900-million-super-app-move-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta makes a $900 million super-app move in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. is spending $900 million on an Indian fintech whose founder will run WhatsApp globally. Is this just an expensive talent hire? Perhaps. But I think the motivation runs deeper. Mark Zuckerberg may be trying to revive the super-app idea. <\/p>\n<p>The global tech firm announced this week that it will own 20% of Bengaluru-based Cred, which rewards people who pay their credit-card bills on time. Cred\u2019s founder and Chief Executive Officer Kunal Shah will move to Meta as the head of its flagship messaging service. With an estimated 500 million-plus users, India is WhatsApp\u2019s largest market. But how to make them do more on the app than just communicate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. is spending $900 million on an Indian fintech whose founder will run WhatsApp globally. Is this just an expensive talent hire? Perhaps. But I think the motivation runs deeper. Mark Zuckerberg may be trying to revive the super-app idea. The global tech firm announced this week that it will own 20% of Bengaluru-based Cred, which rewards people who pay their credit-card bills on time. Cred\u2019s founder and Chief Executive Officer Kunal Shah will move to Meta as the head of its flagship messaging service. With an estimated 500 million-plus users, India is WhatsApp\u2019s largest market. But how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016766,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016754\/revisions\/1016766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}