{"id":977692,"date":"2025-12-02T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977692"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:30:35","slug":"superapp-x-to-be-a-better-wechat-outside-china-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/superapp-x-to-be-a-better-wechat-outside-china-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Superapp X to be a better WeChat outside China: Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk reiterated plans to develop X into a \u2018superapp\u2019 with multiple services on a single platform \u2014 similar to China\u2019s WeChat \u2014 during a recent conversation with Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath. <\/p>\n<p>Talking about his affinity for the letter \u2018X,\u2019 Musk recounted on Kamath\u2019s \u2018People by WTF\u2019 podcast that plans for a financial exchange with the domain name \u2018X.com\u2019 manifested in the form of PayPal. The digital payments platform was later acquired by eBay in 2002, but the online marketplace later offered the domain name back to Musk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk reiterated plans to develop X into a \u2018superapp\u2019 with multiple services on a single platform \u2014 similar to China\u2019s WeChat \u2014 during a recent conversation with Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath. Talking about his affinity for the letter \u2018X,\u2019 Musk recounted on Kamath\u2019s \u2018People by WTF\u2019 podcast that plans for a financial exchange with the domain name \u2018X.com\u2019 manifested in the form of PayPal. The digital payments platform was later acquired by eBay in 2002, but the online marketplace later offered the domain name back to Musk.<\/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-977692","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\/977692","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=977692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}