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FUEL CYCLE Fuels B2C Relationships

PYMNTS

. — as if they were on a social network. The data collected through these online communities gives brands the insights they need to make real-time decisions that serve the commerce king: the customer. According to Forrester, brands face a 50 percent higher revenue risk in 2017. PYMNTS: Why was the company founded?

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Can Amazon Break Into Beauty?

PYMNTS

Though there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of choices when it comes to beauty and personal care, the vast majority of those products and brands (183 of them, to be exact) have historically come from one of seven large global firms: Estée Lauder, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Coty, Shiseido and Procter & Gamble.

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Here’s What IBM Thinks Retail Will Look Like In 2020

PYMNTS

The rise of eCommerce , the push toward omnichannel shopping platforms, the increasing relevancy of social media on shopping habits and the development of the Internet of Things to plumb every last morsel of data on customers and what they spend money on are all rapidly and drastically altering the face of retail.

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Economic Nexus Laws’ Unexpected Impacts On Restricted Substance Retailers

PYMNTS

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. Retailers in high-tax states have largely not been able to build themselves up or expand online beyond their local markets to the same extent, Rogers said. .

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Is Instagram becoming TikTok? IG Announces Big Changes.

Social Assurance

The declaration that sent the social media world into a frenzy: “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app,” said Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram. Since its release date on October 6, 2010, Instagram has carved its position in the marketplace as the photo-sharing app. Update Social Strategies. Download Here.

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Will The Stars Align For Facebook’s Project Libra?

PYMNTS

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts.

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Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

CB Insights

After conducting research backed by DARPA — the same defense agency that helped spawn the internet — Dr. Robert Finkelstein proposed the creation of a brand new arm of the US military, a “Meme Control Center.” In internet-speak the word “meme” often refers to an amusing picture that goes viral on social media.