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Meta’s payment plays may pay off this year: report

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A partnership between tech giants Meta and Amazon “could represent the tipping point of transforming social media into a transaction platform,” Mizuho Securities analysts said in a report this week.

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HSBC To Staff: Stay Off Bank’s Social Media Accounts

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21) to stay off the bank’s social media sites after a report was leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). . In another case, the news outlet reported that when investigators for HSBC in the U.S.

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Two Perficient Colleagues Quoted in Forrester Report on Emerging Insurance Technologies

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Perficient insurance experts were interviewed for Forrester’s report, “ The Top Emerging Technologies In Insurance, 2024 ,” and discussed technologies expected to emerge in the insurance industry over the next five years, considering them now, and in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future.

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Consumers Value Their Social Media But Put Security Onus On Companies

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Social media has taken on a life of its own — so much so that a new survey finds a lot of consumers value their life online at $100,000 to priceless. That may be particularly scary since Forbes reported that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook got his social media accounts hacked for the third time in 2016.

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Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams

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Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. s TSB , for example, the bank saw attempted fraud rise up to 70 times, Reuters reported.

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

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As noted last week, the draft order, which was seen and reported by CNN , would place the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of how marquee names such as Facebook and Twitter show what is on their sites. In the UK, Too. The compliance date has been pushed back to Nov. Uber Fined in Colombia.

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Report: Hackers Hit 2,000 Robinhood Accounts

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A recent hack compromised around 2,000 Robinhood Markets accounts, suggesting the attacks were more widespread than previously realized, Bloomberg reported. Social media saw a deluge of complaints about the attacks, Bloomberg reported. Some users reported not hearing back from the company for multiple days.

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