PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

The social media giant has faced backlash and losses in partnerships from companies like Unilever , Verizon and Hershey , which have decided to sever ties due to what they say is a failure on Facebook’s part to sufficiently police hate speech and inaccurate news on its platform.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 3, 2019

Bank, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation Build 2019, this blog’s event on best practices in banking innovation. Dominic Venturo, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at U.S. Bank Innovation Build will take place November 6-7 at Atlanta’s W Hotel Downtown. Register here.)

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cameo was valued at $300 million in mid-2019, Bloomberg reported, citing Axios. Facebook, which is the world's biggest social media company, has faced antitrust concerns in recent years over its big-name acquisitions of popular apps like Instagram and WhatsApp.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Social media fraud has been on the rise during the past year. Such schemes entail fraudsters falsely advertising offers from restaurants on social media, then duping victims into paying for them and absconding with the funds. Developments From The Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

PayPal finally anticipates monetizing Venmo in 2019, nearly six years after acquiring the P2P service. Venmo's revenue run-rate is over $200 million for 2019, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in the earnings call Wednesday after market close.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. According to reports and as noted in this space, the data reportedly may have been accessed through manipulation of the social media giant’s API. It’s the list no one likes to be on. The readings are pretty grim. At a high level, the numbers are staggering. Thousands of breaches.

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JUNE 14, 2019

And the idea is to take advantage of the ongoing rise of mobile commerce and social media to create, in essence, digital communities centered around pets — and not just ones that spark to life when little Fido goes missing, or plots an escape from a dog park or a particular section of the beach in the summer. Social Media Aspect.

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PYMNTS

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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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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MAY 26, 2020

million in grants, virtual training classes and new features to help promote SMBs across numerous apps owned by the social media giant, according to a press release. According to the press release, four in 10 Canadian SMBs had not established an eCommerce website in 2019. But many SMBs had not yet caught on.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Squarespace was reported to be seeking a $400 million credit line in 2019, PYMNTS reported, which generally means that the company is preparing to go public. Whether building a business or personal brand, social media is a place where many creators get started before launching a website,” he said, according to the PYMNTS report. “As

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MARCH 8, 2019

percent since the start of 2019, it is still 37 percent below the multi-year high it reached last June, according to Bloomberg. Twitter isn’t the only social media site looking to boost its privacy measures. And while the stock has gained 4.8 consulting firm that has since closed down.

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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. Line began another exchange in 2019, Bitmax, with the exchange structure built into Line’s popular social media app.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It is a system that mostly works out for retailers, but for the 12 times in the last 80 years that were like this year (2019), when Thanksgiving fell on the latest possible date it can be in November — the dreaded 28th. So will a “shorter season” be the Grinch that stole the Christmas spend in 2019? The Sky Is Falling .

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Facebook is enabling official music videos on its social media platform in the United States to help users unite over music. It said in the announcement, “With official music videos on Facebook, we’re creating new social experiences that are about more than just watching the video.”.

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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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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. All this, Today in Data.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics are changing the digital security landscape, and a recent study found that social media networks have become a more popular way for hackers to target new victims. 22 billion: Projected over-the-top (OTT) media revenue for 2019. All this, Today In Data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

21, the last Saturday shopping day before Christmas 2019, has been confirmed as the single biggest retail sales day in U.S. billion and that exceeded 2019 Black Friday sales by 10 percent. Recent social media sales i nnovations and a robust economy further the dominance of online shopping. Exceeding forecasts , Dec.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

In July of 2019, after the crimes had already allegedly been taking place for months, the FBI was able to infiltrate the circle and an agent used the same handle as a previous associate to talk with Ponle, using that to conduct a transaction and prove what was going on. -based crypto in order to access businesses, Cointelegraph reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In investments, social media-focused attire reseller Poshmark recently filed for an initial public offering , hoping to catch an IPO wave that saw massive first-day increases for DoorDash and Airbnb. 27 : Average number of minutes that active users spent per day on the Poshmark site in 2019. in the same period last year.

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PYMNTS

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. percent from 4.5

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, is pushing back against two antitrust lawsuits filed against the social media giant, CNBC reported on Friday (Dec. The M&A landscape has been quiet due to the pandemic, with deal making down 70 percent from 2019, with just 40 transactions.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Thorleifsson said in the post that the company, which was founded in late 2013, first worked with Twitter in 2019, when a friend of his, Dantley Davis, who worked at Twitter, contacted him for help. Twitter has acquired Ueno , a design agency, a blog post from company CEO and Founder Haraldur Thorleifsson stated.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Social media-based campaigns are also proving to be especially useful during the health crisis. Many nonprofits are turning to peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaigns in which donors create pages on social media platforms to promote causes to their family members and friends.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

People took to social media to express their anger, some stating that they’ve had the same bank account for a dozen years and others complaining that their tax payments got deducted but they can’t get a deposit. Instead, most taxpayers are getting a frustrating error message that says “Payment Status Not Available.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

The yuan pilot tests became known to the public after a screenshot circulated on social media earlier this month that supposedly showed a new digital yuan app from the Agricultural Bank of China. The G-20 mandated in June 2019 that the FSB examine regulatory issues related to GSC.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2019

The tide is turning, says Pagaya CEO Gal Krubiner. The idea that investors need to look their asset managers in the eye is going away, just as visits to the bank branch are on the decline. This will happen in asset management, Krubiner says, because the proof will be in the returns. Pagaya uses data science […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels. General awareness of contactless methods has jumped 25 percent from 2019, and three-quarters of U.S.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Although Libra is often called the “Facebook coin,” the social media giant isn’t involved in any decision making. The Libra Association was founded in October 2019 to govern Facebook’s Libra stablecoin. Facebook first announced the Libra digital currency about a year ago. The stablecoin is overseen by a 27-member association.

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APRIL 2, 2020

billion spent on TV advertising in 2019 illustrates. 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. This issue is present in almost every industry, as the $70.3

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JULY 7, 2020

introduced a new social eCommerce app. The offering brings together the functions of an online shopping website that Verishop rolled out in 2019 with a digital app that works similar to TikTok and Pinterest, Bloomberg reported. To allow users to purchase attire from their news feeds, Verishop Inc. And then focus on the fun part.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The move aligns with laws passed in 2019 that tech firms like Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart are having trouble complying with. The sources also told Reuters that social media companies that capitalize on advertising and user data could also be impacted by the new rules. .

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PYMNTS

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. TechCrunch reported that the launch comes five years after Facebook launched a similar feature through Messenger.

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