100,000 People Are Waiting to Use This Mysterious Mobile Payments App

Lucas Duplan caused more than a few jaws to drop in late June when the 22-year-old announced raising a massive $25 million round of funding for his first startup, a mobile payment service called Clinkle. Now he may shock a few more people with an announcement Wednesday that Clinkle already has attracted a waiting list of more than 100,000 people interested in using the app.

And he still hasn't shown off how the app works to the general public

"We've been doing internal testing with the company until this point and are now segueing that to college testing," Duplan told Mashable in a recent interview. Clinkle opened up its waiting list to college students in mid-July and the plan, he says, is to "begin launching at certain colleges within the next couple months." Read more...