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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Social media-focused clothing reseller Poshmark became the latest platform company to file for an initial public offering (IPO) this week, hoping to catch an IPO wave that saw big first-day pops recently for Airbnb and DoorDash. million in 2019, Poshmark made $21.1 That’s up 28 percent from the same 2019 period.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Next Web , hours after moving all raised funds out of its wallet, the company shut down its website, deleted its social media accounts and kicked all users off its chat group. And Venezuela is trying to lure the world’s oil markets to start using its national cryptocurrency, the petro.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ask Amazon, which had to shutter its social shopping entry, Spark, after two years in July 2019. percent of online sales came from social channels. However, 8 percent of Cyber Monday visits did originate from social media, an increase of 17.5 Brand advertisers, it says, need to justify social media ROI.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Japanese social media network Line can begin trading its own digital currency among its 700 million users beginning in April 2020. Available since 2018, Line’s currency is called Link and has not been available in the Japanese or United States markets due to government regulation in its country of origin.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Amazon , in one case, had to close its Spark social shopping entry last year – but multiple market dynamics could drive growth for social shopping in 2020. Data: 2019: The year Amazon shuttered its Spark social shopping entry. 3.5B: Amount Amazon earned in advertising revenue for Q3 2019.

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JULY 23, 2018

Pinterest, the social media company, is nearing $1 billion in advertising revenue and is eyeing an initial public offering in the middle of next year. Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has said he expects the company to launch its IPO in 2019. billion in June of last year.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

IBM will be hosting IBM Think 2019 from February 12-15 this year at a new location in San Francisco, CA. In 2019, the financial services industry will continue to be disrupted by new customer experience expectations, market entrants, emerging ecosystems, digital transformation and shifts in a variety of economic and technological trends.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At Think 2019, the security team behind the IBM Cyber Range will bring the stress of a cyber incident directly to the audience. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. –> Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions. Feel what thousands of cyber range clients have experienced.

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APRIL 2, 2020

billion spent on TV advertising in 2019 illustrates. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 billion in 2019 and is projected to total $62.1 Banks can even harness external regulatory, trading and social media engagement data, all of which can be processed and analyzed to benefit their operations.

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JUNE 18, 2020

In the latest of a string of outages as of the beginning of March, Robinhood Markets Inc. It has also suffered a number of outages, especially on days of elevated trading as the market responded to reports on COVID-19’s economic effect. At the conclusion of 2019, Robinhood said it had 10 million users.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

As recently as a few years ago, experts were predicting the era of social media platforms was over, and that new entrants were far less likely to make a dent on the market than be bought out by the established names in the game. In that effort, in fact, it is hardly alone as social media platforms go.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The social media-focused platform company’s business model is simple: it’s a retail destination for consumers looking to sell their second-hand apparel and other goods or pick up desirable designer items for fraction of the price. Unique to Poshmark are social media aspects like the ability to share “likes” on favored items. “We

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“The urgency of this research cannot be overstated,” King and Persily said on Social Science One’s website last April. “We We believe we can provide the fuel in the form of data access to the scholarly community to help solve some of the major issues in social media that affect elections and democracy across the world.”.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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MARCH 2, 2020

and another one is ready to open, both of them seeking a new market as their home turf sees retail struggles. We’re excited to bring our vertically integrated model to the United States, the largest home improvement market in the world,” a Wren Kitchens spokesperson said. The British are coming. One of the U.K.’s expat effort.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. Social-based marketing. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. Hyper-connected journey.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Instagram , the Facebook -owned photo-sharing social media platform, has officially launched a new voice messaging feature on Instagram Direct. This is the latest feature launched by the social media site. 80 percent of India’s online fashion market is controlled by Flipkart-Myntra and Amazon India.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China. Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014.

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APRIL 22, 2020

GPay , a member company of the Vietnam investment firm G-Group , joins a tight FinTech market in Vietnam with 33 other firms licensed for intermediary payment services. In 2019, Payme, FinViet, EPay, PayTech, Dibee and Smart Net were granted licenses from Vietnam’s central bank.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

From mailers and e-newsletters to social media posts and events, there are countless ways to spread the word about your community bank and its offerings. But it doesn’t matter how spectacular your marketing campaign is if it’s not reaching the right people—or anyone, for that matter. Take advantage of free analytics tools.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Its processes were slow and lacked automation, which was impacting customer experience and the bank’s ability to win new business in this highly competitive market. Simultaneously, using IBM marketing solutions, the bank transformed its front-office operations to deliver seamless omni-channel customer experience. IBMFintech Twitter.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The DOJ has had an interest in Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google since the summer of 2019, starting a broad investigation into whether the firms have been engaging in anti-competitive practices. He didn’t comment on when the investigation would be complete, but he said it was not politically driven, Reuters reported.

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APRIL 27, 2020

It found that 64 percent of consumers across 27 surveyed markets noted that they were using FinTech services. One study recently determined that the number of digital banking users is expected to exceed 3.6 Global banking revenues are expected to reach approximately $5.4

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Facebook posted single-digit user gains in the fourth quarter of 2018, gains that arguably push back against ideas that the social media platform would lose its hold on consumers in the wake of online privacy and security concerns. Facebook users are also bringing in more revenue for the social media platform.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The social media giant said it used the app as one of its market intelligence tools and that it notified users of all data collection activities. Based on Facebook’s 2019 revenue, those fines could exceed $7 billion. This information gave Facebook insider information about its competitors.

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MAY 22, 2019

We continue to see a healthy economic backdrop for our business,” CEO Brian Cornell said, noting that Target is “well-positioned to deliver strong financial performance in 2019 and beyond.”. The move generated long lines, sellouts and countless internet and social media mentions. Online sales now represent 7.1

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Waze was considered by some to be part social media site, part navigation app. It was literally Google acquiring its number one competitor in maps,” said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, which is pushing for a crackdown on big internet platforms. “It

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Analysts say that 80 percent of India’s online fashion market – valued at $4 billion – is controlled by Flipkart-Myntra and Amazon India. The move should increase sales for brands and eCommerce platforms, experts say, but it could also become a threat for online retailers, and especially fashion sites.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As a result, at IBM Think 2019 you’ll be able to find a number of client-led sessions. These are exclusive pre-conference sessions that take place on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Learn more about these sessions in this blog: –>Ten “Smart Starts Here” sessions to give you a jump on Think 2019. IBMFintech Twitter.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. The counterfeits [are] kind of flooding the markets,” he told Federal News Network. “It

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JULY 17, 2019

It’s gratifying to see IBM once again positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management, released on July 3 rd for its OpenPages with Watson solution.* Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management, Khushbu Pratap, Brian Reed, 03 July 2019. Learn more at ibm.com/RegTech.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

The announcement was made by Xiaomi Chief Executive Lei Jun, who posted a letter on the company’s social media account. “We Beijing-based Xiaomi has a lot of competition from Huawei, which had 42 percent of China’s smartphone market in the third quarter of 2019. .

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Fifty-three percent of consumers want retailers to respect their anonymity in 2020; at the same time 61 percent want more personalization in marketing, messaging and promotions. In 2019 the Episerver report found that 17 percent of respondents shopped with voice-assisted devices compared to just 7 percent this year.

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JUNE 25, 2019

The Senate Banking Committee will hold its own hearing on the social media giant’s digital currency, called Libra, the day before. The cryptocurrency market currently lacks a clear regulatory framework to provide strong protections for investors, consumers, and the economy. financial system. Truist will be the sixth-largest U.S.

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MAY 26, 2020

Tencent has been doing well this year, PYMNTS previously reported , with better earnings in the first quarter of this year than it had in 2019. The company had a total net revenue of $15.2 billion, 26 percent higher year over year.

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JUNE 29, 2020

On Monday (June 29), the company said it was adding a number of sweeteners aimed at helping video creators and publishers earn more money on the social media site. YouTube pulled in $15 billion in ad revenue in 2019. Facebook is upping the ante again in its bid to lure online video personalities to its platform.

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