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Why Instagram’s New Shopping Icon Is Changing Ecommerce Forever

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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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Merchant Resolution: Improve Buy Button, Social Experience

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For merchants, a resolution worth considering as the new year begins is to make smart financial decisions and strive to offer customers a seamless online shopping experience. Working to improve how online customers interact with digital buy buttons is a single step that could simultaneously address these two goals.

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How Online Universities Take Fraudsters To School

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Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. Online universities have become increasingly popular among nontraditional students who need convenient and flexible class schedules.

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Fitness Platform Raises $5M For Online Workouts

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We’re the Netflix of fitness based on our user experience and affordability, and an Amazon to content creators, in that we are a marketplace that provides trainers with a way to digitally scale their businesses,” Forster said. million followers on social media, and Nicole Mejia, a fitness instructor with 1.3

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Stopping Fraudsters From Taking The Travel Industry For An $11B Ride

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The perpetrators caused a 90 percent increase in fraud attacks between October and December 2019, and appear largely focused on new account registrations and logins across eCommerce, gaming and social media platforms. Balancing seamless-but-fraud-free user experiences requires careful effort, however.

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How PSD2 Is Changing ING Bank’s API Strategy

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Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. For other companies, GDPR is the main concern as they move to expand operations within Europe.

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Online Fitness Experiences Where Signup Is The Light Lift Differentiator

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For fitness aficionados and those just looking to get in a workout, several online platforms have emerged to help them bring home the gym experience. But NEOU Co-founder Nathan Forster found that existing offerings forced consumers to buy expensive equipment and lacked a great user experience. “I

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