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The Buyers: Studying Chinese Consumers’ Online Interactions

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A byproduct of incorporating connectivity into just about any activity is how social media affects regular interactions. It can be difficult to discuss the digital effects without looping in social media. For the Chinese buyer in particular, social media engagement and online shopping activities takes on a unique avenue.

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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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TRENDING: How Credit Unions Give Digital The Personal Touch

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Advanced technology is increasingly raising the stakes of how CUs should operate, with members coming to expect the instant payments and slick mobile interfaces that large banks and FinTechs have made standard. A study from the Cuna Mutual Group found that CU membership has increased 3.5 Deep Dive: How CUs Leverage Social Media.

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ChowNow: AI Helps Independent Restaurants Fight The Growing Threat of Digital Fraud

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More than 100,000 eateries — or about one in six restaurants nationwide — have closed due to the pandemic, according to National Restaurant Association estimates. Social media fraud has been on the rise during the past year. Developments From The Mobile Order-Ahead World. About The Tracker®.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: EU Prepares To Propose New Big Tech Regulations; Turkey Fines Big Tech Platforms $1.18M

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Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny from governments and consumers. million) penalty for not following a new social media law, Reuters reported, citing Omer Fatih Sayan, the deputy transport and infrastructure minister. Regulation.

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Restaurant Business Serves Up Mixed Plate For 2020

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The restaurant business is: a) healthy for 2020 or b) apprehensive about technology. The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. All of the above.

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When Social Networks Become ‘Diversity-Aware’ Research Platforms

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Those traits could find their way into more social media and online research interactions — and the payments and commerce associated with them — in the coming years, if Dr. Fausto Giunchiglia, project coordinator for Italy-based WeNet , gets his way. What about smarter, and more diverse?