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Identity As A Service To The Rescue

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Social media platforms are infested with phonies, and not just your best friend’s irritating co-worker (although he totally is). This is about the fact that fake identities comprise 25 percent of new social media accounts created every day, and that 53 percent of all social media logins are fraudulent , according to a recent study.

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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. Mobile wallets have become popular vehicles for storing and accessing credit card information, plane tickets and other documents.

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Facebook Sweetens Terms In Bid For Video Creators

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Facebook is upping the ante again in its bid to lure online video personalities to its platform. 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.

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ChowNow CEO: Online Ordering’s Future And The 90-Minute Restaurant Vacation Experience

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Consumers are waking up to the fact that all those free online and mobile services — email and social media among them — take in trade personal data that is chopped, diced, analyzed, bundled and sold to numerous third parties. That effort is starting to involve Google in a big way. That’s just Google’s scale.”.

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Online Food Delivery Is Having A Bright Moment — But Clouds Are Gathering

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India-based online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has reportedly spent about $7.3 million to buy Scootsy , another Indian firm that offers online food delivery services. That said, online food delivery is having its moment. China, too, provides evidence that online food delivery remains a hot proposition.

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Quaranstreaming And The Future Of Social Commerce

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But just as work has gone online — via Zoom meetings, Skype chats and Google Hangouts — so too has social time. And as group socialization is moving online and quarenstreaming is becoming a more popular, diverse and group-oriented activity, commerce is already finding ways to follow along with it.

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Top News In Payments: The Fed Takes A Closer Look At Big Tech; Goldman CEO Denies Apple Card Credit Bias Claims

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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. Goldman CEO Denies Claims Of Apple Card Credit Biases. Privacy Advocates Fear Google Will Mine Fitbit’s Health Data. Google’s $2.1