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Snapchat announced its move into mobile payments with Snapcash. The service enabled users to send money directly to each other. They just needed to set up their financial information first in the app before they could get started with Snapcash. The service itself was powered by Square. It appears that the company will now be forfeiting to Venmo as it’s reportedly going to shut down Snapcash next month.

TechCrunch points to code buried in Snapchat’s Android app which mentions a “Snapcash deprecation message.” The message will be meant to inform users that “Snapcash will no longer be available after %s [date].”

It’s possible that the feature may not have seen wide usage since there are already a wide variety of services that users can use to pay back their friends for that drink or meal. The list includes Venmo. Square Cash, and PayPal.

When the scribe presented the code to Snapchat, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that “Yes, we’re discontinuing the Snapcash feature as of August 30, 2018. Snapcash was our first product created in partnership with another company – Square. We’re thankful for all the Snapchatters who used Snapcash for the last four years and for Square’s partnership!.”

The spokesperson added that the company will be notifying all users about this in-app as well as through the support website soon.

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Some of the biggest technology companies have teamed up to make it easier for users to transfer their data. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter have founded the Data Transfer Project to enable users to move content, contacts, and more across different apps. The DTP is an open source data portability platform which any online service will be able to join.

Many online companies already allow their users to download their data but it’s then difficult to use the data elsewhere. The Data Transfer Project will yield a tool which will make it easier to use that data elsewhere as well but the tool isn’t quite available as yet, the tech giants have only presented a white paper for how the tool will work.

An industry standard for data portability will certainly make life easier for users. They will no longer be subject to data lock-ins which make it difficult for users to switch to other services.

The DTP is described as a common framework with open-source code which can connect any two online service providers in order to enable a seamless user initiated portability of data between two platforms.

More in-depth understanding of the project and its fundamentals is present in the white paper that the tech giants have put up on the DTP’s website.

Tech Giants Team Up To Make Data Transfer Easier , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.