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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

The worldwide banking industry experienced profound challenges during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Using Watson Marketing analytics, data sources such as images, video and social media can be coaxed to reveal insight. While the global economy has improved, the pressure on banks is unabated.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). It can burden users with excessive information and friction that ruins the user experience.

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Look Who’s Making AI Intelligent Again

Fintech Labs Insights

PayPal ( FD16 ) first announced it was integrating with Facebook Messenger last month, when the social media giant unveiled payments capability within Messenger. Financial services companies can offer a better user experience by not requiring users to open a separate app or launch a new window to view their balance.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. In 2006, amidst high user growth and revenue numbers, several firms took part in Facebook’s Series B: Founders Fund, Interpublic Group, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock Partners backed the $27.5M

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