PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as part of the agency’s antitrust investigation into the popular social media giant, CNBC reported. Zuckerberg, for his part, has contended that competition is important to Facebook as it helps the social media company continue to innovate.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

The Infatuation, the restaurant discovery platform, announced Monday (March 5) it is acquiring the restaurant review brand Zagat from Google , nearly seven years after it paid $151 million for it. But it remains to be seen if Zagat still has the same clout and relevance in this mobile, social media-driven world.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 6, 2016

Back in 2014, Stripe confirmed that it was working with Facebook on a “Buy” button for the social media giant. Whatever happened to the “Buy with Facebook” button?

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Across the European Union (EU), technology providers and social media platforms are increasingly playing a bigger role in the Open Banking ecosystem. At the same time, however, many players, like Facebook and Google , are squaring off against regulators that are looking at their data and payment policies with more scrutiny.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Google is expanding its advertising reach, bringing shoppable ads to Google Images search results. It’s aimed at helping retailers better connect with consumers, explained Daniel Alegre, president of retail shopping and payments at Google, during Shoptalk, a retail conference covered by Adweek. “We

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Bank Innovation

JULY 23, 2018

Social media platform SnapChat will shut down its P2P payment feature, Snapcash, as of August 30, after launching less than four years ago in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Facebook Inc’s top executives could be required to testify before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the regulator investigates whether the California-based social media conglomerate has violated U.S. antitrust laws, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The House panel has pressed for tougher antitrust rules and enforcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Here’s the latest news from Google and the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny from regulatory watchdogs, consumers and organizations. Google Competitors: Justice Department Lawsuit Indicates Google No Longer Has ‘Halo’. A Google blog post referred to the Justice lawsuit as “deeply flawed.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This newest round of regulatory focus involves Amazon and Google and comes as rules crafted by the European Union continue to have an increasing impact on digital economies and endeavors throughout the world. Google Fine. Speaking of Google …. Amazon Probe. Let’s start with Amazon. 20) from Reuters.

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Perficient

JULY 31, 2020

Just google “COVID statistics” and it returns 4,770,000,000 websites with its own dashboard automatically reflecting the state you are in and United States population (assuming you are in US). Think about what you do first when you wake up. You would likely go with the website that has trusted data.

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

Use these direct links to update your privacy settings on popular devices and online services on everything from social media to Peloton and Spotify. Learn more about Data Privacy Day , including Privacy Tips for Parents and the chance to quiz yourself with the National Privacy Test and Google Phishing Quiz.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned that technology giants like Facebook and Google are now so dominant that they might need to be broken up. Apple , Microsoft , Amazon , Google and Facebook have a combined market capitalization of $3.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . The pandemic has helped drive AR innovation , especially in the cosmetics and automotive industries. 22) press release. Both categories have expanded use of the technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

People don’t know what’s true and what’s not, and what to believe,” he noted, adding that instead of uniting people, technology — like social media — is “splintering” them.”. “If Department of Justice is currently investigating companies like Google and Facebook, and is even exploring the possibility of breaking them up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Here’s the latest news for Big Tech’s Google , Amazon , Apple and Facebook , which are coming under increasing scrutiny from legislators and regulators the world over. Tumusov wrote in a social media post that “lowering the commission and having the ability to bring products to users is a growth opportunity for IT developers.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their muscle behind connecting content to commerce three years ago, the potential for social shopping has been rich – but the results have fallen short of expectations. percent from the prior year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A big driver of traffic is Google Adwords, but that is just a tiny portion of the company’s target market. The company has been active on social media. The company accepts PayPal, Amazon Pay and Google Pay as well as credit cards. It also offers financing through Klarna.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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BankInovation

MAY 8, 2020

Google recently got involved with three new tools backed by artificial intelligence to help banks navigate the program. Banks and tech companies continue to launch Paycheck Protection Program solutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. eBay Drafts Google Pay. Instagram and PayPal Pair Up for Instacommerce.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And it might not go so far in payments and commerce in the coming decade, at least going by the results of a new Mastercard collaboration with Harvard Business Review Analytics on what really works when it comes to innovation, companies and executives. 2020 Innovation Sparks. The report, released Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Reveal Mobile, a leading innovator in monetizing location-based audience data, announced the launch of Social Direct, a platform that enables advertising agencies, retailers and brands to leverage location-based audience data for highly targeted social media campaigns.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. But […].

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South State Correspondent

JULY 24, 2023

Similar to the Barbie movie, Citizens focused on the intent instead of demographics and targeted innovative features at households that didn’t use Citizens as their primary bank. Google “bank deposit advertising,” and you will see that most banks fail to leverage their brand elements in their digital collateral.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Google is far behind, with 27 percent of the share. The biggest strength of Alexa, of Amazon, is right now the market penetration, and their goal of getting Alexa into everything and everywhere,” noted Chris Neff, senior director of innovation at the community advertising agency. It was one of several glitches the tester found.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Taking all of these innovations in [NLP], all the understanding of how humans make decisions in the supply chain and bringing them all together into a really intelligent system that will help our supply chains get more robust, and more resilient to disruptions.” ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

The popular social media app saw a revenue increase of 17 percent to $454 million in the second quarter, as opposed to last year. ” Some of the innovations he mentioned are listed in the release, including an augmented reality (AR) program. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

The few dozen or so images of red tinted screens showing up on social media are now collectively known as “cherry blossom editions.”. The Google Nexus 5 and Apple Inc.’s At this point, it is not known how widespread the complaint is. s iPhone 7, for instance, faced user complaints about a yellowish display.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

With this addition, each of the Frightful Five will have its own voice-controlled speaker: Amazon with its Echo family of devices; Google with the Home speaker; Apple with its new HomePod; Microsoft with the Cortana-powered Invoke speaker; and now, Alibaba, with its as-yet unnamed voice assistant and device. Alphabet Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce. Travel Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

But the future of the cosmetics, fragrance and beauty industry, according to Coty Vice President, Digital Innovation Fred Gerantabee, will be about more than just products. The app is summoned up with the phrase “Hey Google, talk to Clairol.”. And Coty wants to make sure its many beauty brands are along for the ride. “In

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The CB Insights Patent Search Engine surfaced two new patents this week that prove Google and Microsoft are eager to inject quantitative tech into the “Influencer Economy.” In addition, this identification could ultimately help Google predict what content may go viral. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Only 26 percent said they would trust Google to enable new IoT payments methods, and Apple and Microsoft fared even worse. Though consumers spend the most time on Facebook, it was the platform they trusted least with their financial transactions, with only 8 percent saying they would use an IoT solution provided by the social media giant.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In an interview that springboarded the findings of the Retail Innovation Readiness Index , published late last year, Nicky Koopman, vice president of content and value-added services at AEVI , stated that when it comes to apps, one maxim holds true: One size does not fit all. Laying The Groundwork. Ah, but how to get there?

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