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Pinterest Revenue Surges As SMBs Shift Ad Dollars From Facebook

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The social sharing platform Pinterest got a revenue bump from the pandemic as more people engaged with online entertainment as a way to socialize under lockdown, Pinterest said in a statement on Wednesday (Oct. Even before the pandemic-driven surge in online engagement , there has been an elevated interest in Pinterest.

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Bank Innovation Relaunches

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Today, Bank Innovation releases its most significant redesign and relaunch since the site initially dropped online in 2009. We hope you love the new Bank Innovation. When we started Bank Innovation, while the crosswinds of the credit crisis were still swirling, we were the lone voice for innovation at banks.

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Bank Innovation Kicks Off Relaunch Beta

Bank Innovation

We have undertaken our most significant redesign and relaunch since Bank Innovation initially dropped online in 2009. This beta officially kicks off today and marks a new chapter in the life of Bank Innovation. We hope you love it.

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China’s ‘Little Red Book’ Seeks $200M Investment

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It also created an Instagram-like social media platform through which celebrities can recommend products. Meilishuo’s online marketplace focuses on a young female audience and claimed to have more than 100 million women as registered users in 2015, primarily between the ages of 18–35. and small startups such as Pinduoduo.

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BigCommerce Raises $64M Led By Goldman Sachs

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Our mission is to help every business selling online maximize success through the benefits of SaaS,” said Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce. For example, in March the company said it expanded its collaboration with Instagram to enable shopping on the social media platform.

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Foursquare Completes Business Model Pivot; CEO Resigns

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For Foursquare , it has been quite a journey from its launch in 2009 to 2020. It’s that growth potential that Foursquare has been aiming to tap since its very splashy launch at SXSW in 2009, which Co-founder and Executive Chairman Dennis Crowley told Fast Company in a recent interview mostly astounded them when it was all over. “I

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Strava’s Journey From Fitness App To Fitness Ecosystem

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In some ways, Strava is a very much like any social media platform, albeit with a slightly narrower focus than most. It is getting very serious about the larger social media play and the ecosystem it hopes to build around it. Quarles is new to his job, having come on board last spring, but he is not new to social media.