Payments is the 'killer app' for chatbots

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Integrating payments capabilities into messaging apps could be the key to making chatbots the next big platform, according to Kik CEO Ted Livingston. The popular North American chat app tested payments integration in trials at fast food restaurants in February 2016, according to Forbes, however there is no established method of payment for Kik's more than 20,000 chatbots. Livingston aims to have a solution to chat app payments "soon," according to TechCrunch.