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Why Instagram’s New Shopping Icon Is Changing Ecommerce Forever

Perficient

Here’s why: Traditionally users weren’t able to purchase items through social media platforms. Social influencers could promote brands through their channels and direct users to “swipe up” or click a link in their bio to purchase. The statistics don’t lie.

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Happy 10th Anniversary iPhone

PYMNTS

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. And on June 29, 2007, we finally got it. I dare say no one in 2007 could have predicted their current state. These are not three separate devices.

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FUEL CYCLE Fuels B2C Relationships

PYMNTS

Née “Think Passenger” in 2007, the company continued to build out its Fast User Engagement and Listening (FUEL) community platform until it eventually changed its name to FUEL CYCLE this year to better reflect its mission: giving clients x-ray vision into customers and their journeys. Brands must either disrupt or be disrupted.

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How Have the Finovate Best of Show Winners Fared?

Fintech Labs Insights

Back in the summer of 2007 we had a simple vision for the first Finovate event. Wysh: Emerging player in the wish-list market, innovative features attracting young demographics, growth driven by effective social media use. Neener Analytics: Social media analytics for risk assessment, expanded into new financial markets.

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Facebook’s Likely M&A: The 9 Companies Facebook Could Acquire Next

CB Insights

Since 2007, the company has made 77 acquisitions, including 8 last year and 7 in 2015. So far the social media giant has made only one acquisition in 2017, with the purchase of Source3 , which offers an enterprise licensing and rights management platform for the distribution of 3D content, in Q3’17.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). It can burden users with excessive information and friction that ruins the user experience.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. In 2006, amidst high user growth and revenue numbers, several firms took part in Facebook’s Series B: Founders Fund, Interpublic Group, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock Partners backed the $27.5M

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