South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

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JUNE 23, 2020

social media giant, which also could set a precedent for the future, with Germany being the first country to explore whether or not data dominance is an antitrust issue. The ruling is a setback for the U.S. Facebook said there was no antitrust abuse and vowed to continue fighting the ruling.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Those issues were the main topics during a recent discussion between Gossart and Karen Webster for the latest edition of the PYMNTS Matchmakers podcast series. When asked to explain the Goodworld model, Gossart told Webster that “we are a social payments platform, but really a payments facilitator.” Payments Facilitator.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a result, you must wade through a bunch of podcasts on financial markets or general business news to find podcasts focused on the banking industry itself. or those primarily focused on the domestic banking market. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. banks and credit unions can be difficult.

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MAY 2, 2020

“Ad and marketing spend has been either cut drastically or thrown out of the window,” said Khyara Ranaweera, digital director of The Lifestyle Agency, a firm specializing in luxury lifestyle PR and affiliate marketing through links on blogs and social media. ” And influencers are feeling the hit.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Social media is taking a lot of fire these days, whether the issue is “fake news” or data privacy or just the time-wasting tendencies of many users. But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It may seem tricky molding these two together, but shifting the focus towards understanding and serving your consumers is the main priority. Find ways to be very relevant when you target and market to your existing and future customers. Take advantage of the customer activity data to power your marketing and personalization engines.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Social media company Facebook is going to buy a stake in Meesho, an Indian eCommerce startup that connects people re-selling a variety of items with potential buyers on other platforms, according to a report from Reuters. The retail giant’s main rival is Walmart-owned Flipkart. Facebook’s investment would help Meesho.

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JULY 27, 2019

A host of potential resolutions to the mystery flooded across the web – the most popular being that this was some kind of marketing stunt by In-N-Out, possible portending a New York opening. The problem with marketing stunts is that they rarely thread that needle. But In-N-Out was pretty adamant that it wasn’t them. But they didn’t.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. Technology and social media company Facebook is also growing more involved in the sharing economy.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 2, 2022

Some will not know the answer, and other bankers will talk about more marketing, more salespeople, more geography, better follow-up, or a more focused sales effort. Neither the product staff nor the marketing staff knows what they don’t know. Here is a fun exercise – Ask a bank product team, “How do you grow customers?”

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JULY 2, 2018

The trend comes at a time when brands are facing other changes on the social media site. Ten direct-to-consumer companies recently surveyed by Digiday all said their marketing plans are relying less on Facebook, as focus and dollars shift to other online marketing channels — and that includes Instagram , owned by Facebook.

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MARCH 3, 2020

It noted in a social media post per the report, “Some shipping and logistics are experiencing longer waiting times for processing orders.” Taobao and Tmall try to reach the domestic market. has made two major wagers on the property market in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. In other news, SoftBank Group Corp.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Both established markets and emerging vendors on the Dark Web have been actively promoting fresh inventory and steep discounts for holiday sales, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Another popular category in the underground is account markets. Holiday sales aren't limited to legitimate businesses. Learn more.

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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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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The social media site faced accusations that its ad-targeting platform — which allows ad buyers to select what demographic groups they want to target with their advertisements — was allowing and encouraging financial institutions (FIs) to violate non-discrimination provisions of the Fair Housing and Truth in Lending Acts.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

On Friday (July 31), the company opened a new concept store in Shenzhen, China, which is an important market for the brand. The store marks a new chapter in retail technology, social retail and social currency all at the same time. The Burberry-Tencent venture could be the most high-profile use of social currency in retail.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The European Commission is planning a single European market for data, in hopes that by pooling talent, the region can compete with Big Tech in Silicon Valley and China, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Feb. The battle for industrial data starts now and Europe will be the main battlefield. and Asian competitors.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Justice Department’s antitrust division said it could ask Silicon Valley companies for documents in its investigation of Big Tech ’s market power of major technology, according to the department’s Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim. The main avenues to be examined are said to be shopping services, social media practices and internet search.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Waze was considered by some to be part social media site, part navigation app. Further, by purchasing Waze, Google got rid of its main competitor. . It was different from Google’s own Maps, in that users could exchange information about police in the area or traffic-causing construction.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Streetwear company Chinatown Market President Dan Altmann said the new feature is an intuitive way to do business. . From going live on Instagram to designing shirts with our fans to posting Stories around the office, Instagram is the main place we connect with our fans,” he said. More and more people are using it to shop, as well.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

People have been talking about content marketing for years. The effects of good content marketing can be long-lasting, offering ongoing engagement while other tactics capitalize on shorter-term opportunities. Content marketing is a marathon, not a sprint. Understanding the market and competition is a good place to start.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The social media company is reportedly looking for a $12 billion minimum valuation, The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) reported. However, they issued a caveat that the timing isn’t set in stone, as is typically the case with IPOs and uncertain markets. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO).

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Pre-pandemic, the answer was much clearer: Good influencers were usually young, attractive, stylish, well-traveled and so naturally charismatic that simply seeing them doing, wearing or eating something was enough to motivate their hundreds of thousands – or even millions – of social media followers to imitate their behavior.

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JULY 30, 2019

With its aggressive use of social media as well as its popular sweat-proof clothing, Under Armour has fought an uphill battle to stand out in a space that has been dominated by Adidas AG and Nike Inc. Under Armour has been spending more to bolster its international market online offerings as well as open stores. for many years.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Social media company Tencent has now claimed that title. Alibaba still has the title of largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, but Tencent ’s rising market capitalization is pushing it out of the top spot in terms of Chinese tech firms. So, what’s behind the interest in China’s largest social media company?

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Social media channels, particularly the photo-based Instagram, are excellent places for celebrities to connect with their fans — and show off their stuff. But the downside to social media is that it’s also an excellent information channel for the dishonest. The Instagram Problem.

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JULY 13, 2015

In a recent Sageworks webinar, 60 percent of attendees said that one of their main road blocks to adopting new technology at their firm was their unfamiliarity with potential solutions. In today’s blog I will map out technologies that can help you leverage client relationships, growth through market expansion and cost reduction.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Back in 2010 after the 2008 market crash, American Express wedged in a new commercial holiday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, dubbed Small Business Saturday. This year, it falls on Nov. Now as then, Amex is mobilizing cardholders behind beleaguered SMBs. 13 and 14.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BlackBerry, the once-maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter contending the social media platform operator engaged in patent infringement. According to a report in Reuters citing the lawsuit, BlackBerry contends Twitter infringed on patents covering its technology in its mobile message apps.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Social media has provided a new platform for these interactions to take place at an accelerated rate; however, the purpose of social media sometimes becomes misguided. With the variety and number of accounts covering social media, an “arms race” erupted with these accounts vying to attract the most number of followers.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Do they add value or are they frivolous marketing ploys? AR technology is being used to build upon the 3D world, even leveraging the social dimension of shopping by directly connecting consumers’ digital experiences to social media. As we will demonstrate, the answer depends on the use case.

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MAY 5, 2022

or largely focused on the domestic banking market. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. In many cases, the podcasts or hosts have sizable social media followings, and all release a new episode at least once per month so you can stay up to date with the latest trends in the finance world. BankTalk 3.

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JULY 13, 2016

Gen-Z shoppers, defined as those between the age of 14 and 19, are about to become the most coveted demographic in all of retail, according to a study entitled “The Next Generation of Retail” by retail marketing firm Interactions.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Local Host: Maine Credit Union League. Social Media Advisory - Done effectively, social media efforts can: engage current and potential members, enhance communication efforts, grow bottom line results, and build social equity and awareness for the credit union. Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | 10:00 a.m. -

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