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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. European Tone.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. At issue is the eCommerce retailer’s parallel responsibility to third-party merchants as an online shopping ecosystem and to itself as a competitor on the platform with rival products. India’s Antitrust Watchdog Opens Google Antitrust Case.

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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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JULY 26, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are now scheduled to appear before a Congressional subcommittee exploring competitive practices among Big Tech Wednesday (July 29) instead of Monday (July 27) as originally planned. The proceedings should be available for live online viewing.

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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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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. 70% of people will trust a recommendation from someone they don’t know.

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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. . In October, Pinterest updated product tagging with improved functionality for retailers to tag their own scene images with specific products. 22) press release.

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MARCH 25, 2019

For a large segment of social media users, commerce may be getting a lot more contextual, as Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the platform become a more attractive place for consumers to shop. “Instagram is a place for people to treat themselves with inspiration, not a place to tax themselves with errands.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. Facebook first let American and Canadian users move their videos and pictures to Google Photos in April. The support comes before a planned Sept.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t announce a lot of details other than the name and that it will be available in the fall with online and offline viewing,” according to one on-scene round-up of the Apple event. “It As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail. Online Gaming.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. The problem is: While there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail, it’s also true that much about retail doesn’t work in healthcare. She ignores the first one, but responds to later emails and schedules online.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

New research by Google and Purchased shows that over half of shoppers surveyed visit a retailer’s website or app before buying a product in-store. Most shoppers visited a retailer’s app or website when making a purchasing decision, but fewer did so when looking for information on that product.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

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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MAY 23, 2018

Additionally, Yelp renews its antitrust complaint against Google, augmented reality might appeal to a specific type of consumer and Neiman Marcus makes an inventory move. The social media site’s Marketplace platform is rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier for users to find contractors, carpenters, plumbers and house cleaners.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

“How about waking up in the morning and asking Google Home or Amazon Alexa, or your mobile phone if you’re on the go, ‘Hey Google, hey Amazon, what are my deals for the day?’” Successful retailers, for example, can provide discounts for consumers to come into the store at a certain time of day.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

More than half of shoppers visit a retailer’s website or app before making an in-store purchase, according to new research. Twenty-six percent of consumers used social media to find out more information about a product, and 13 percent of them used it when making a purchasing decision.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. With more and more commerce going online, he said, it will also be increasingly important for sellers to process a higher number of returns and chargebacks and to quickly settle customer disputes.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The direct-to-consumer movement will be the replacement for the retail issues and commerce issues that are going on because of the platforms,” said Armstrong, who founded a DTC company with the aim of changing how people shop online. Armstrong is the former CEO of AOL and used to run Google ads.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

The social media giant announced this week that it is eliminating transaction fees on donations. percent as well as 30 cents per donation, which is comparable to similar online fundraising platforms like GoFundMe, Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Finally, Google has made two recent changes that benefit small business owners.

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JULY 29, 2019

The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) weighed in on a dispute after a German online fashion retailer was accused of violating EU law by embedding a “Like” plugin. A consumer association in Germany said the plugin allowed the social media company to collect data on the site’s users, the news outlet said.

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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. Alibaba isn’t just a copycat.

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MARCH 23, 2020

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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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Published reports indicate that in the past year, Ikea has seen online sales increase by 45 percent. Of course, it’s not surprising that a retailer looking to focus on digital is exiting print. That beats 2 percent for mobile, 1 percent for email, 1 percent for social media and 0.2 The decision was announced Monday (Dec.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

To research a product, potential customers may turn to Google. Consumers may have to scroll through many social media channels or product reviews to make an informed decision, after all. Many consumers are not in the habit of scanning barcodes at their local supermarket or retailer to learn information about a product.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2021

As social media platforms tinker with their algorithms, marketing experts say one trend is clear: Paid social campaigns are becoming increasingly necessary to cut through the noise and reach customers. Social media has made it easier for community banks to nurture connections with prospects, customers and the community.

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JULY 27, 2018

intelligence warning of a possible cyberattack, grocery chain SUPERVALU being acquired by UNFI, an imminent comeback for RadioShack and Google banning apps that mine crypto from user devices. Google Bans Apps that Mine User Devices for Crypto. Google has banned apps that mine cryptocurrency in the back of a user’s device.

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APRIL 25, 2018

BigCommerce , the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of funding. Our mission is to help every business selling online maximize success through the benefits of SaaS,” said Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Reuters is reporting that Shores, who comes from the firm of Shearman & Sterling, will help with the probe of Google, Facebook and other notable technology companies. The department did not name specific companies, but said they were related to “search, social media and some retail services online.”.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

81 percent: Share of consumers who engage in contextual commerce through social media. 1 billion: Number of devices supported by Google Assistant. 37 percent: Growth in online transactions, cited by MoneyGram. Data: Six in 10: Share of shoppers who shop contextually.

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JULY 9, 2019

Representatives from Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google are scheduled to appear before the House Antitrust Subcommittee. The subcommittee revealed that it would “examine the impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship.”.

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MAY 24, 2018

Native commerce is where Aberman believes all platforms are headed — and that’s not just true for software developers like Apple, Google and Microsoft, but also for social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. “In It’ll be commerce in context of where you spend your time, whether physically or online.”.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. Google parent Alphabet Inc. billion toward online shopping advertising” through the end of 2020.

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JUNE 8, 2017

But half had also purchased something online in that same time, showing that the way people shop is shifting. Respondents wanted their banks or credit card issuers to enable the IoT seamless payment experience, trusting those institutions over retail channels, social networks and mobile device manufacturers.

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