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Sansan Lands VC For Business Networking Solution

PYMNTS

Japan-based business card management service Sansan has announced news of fresh venture capital in support of its solution which helps professionals with business information management and networking. The service launched in Japan in 2012. An announcement Monday (Aug.

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Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel Reduces His Facebook Shares To $2M

PYMNTS

Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel once had 45 million shares in social media company Facebook , but he recently let go of most of them, and now he’s left with a comparatively paltry $2 million, according to a report by Bloomberg. He has 9,948 left. Thiel is worth about $3.4

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Facebook Reports Removal Of 2.2B Sham Accounts

PYMNTS

Social media giant Facebook said it removed 2.2 The amount of capital that we are able to invest in all of the safety systems that go into what we are talking about today — our budget in 2019 is greater than the whole revenue of our company in the year before we went public in 2012,” he said.

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Pixlee Lets Retailers Market Using Real Customers’ Photos

PYMNTS

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Are you a bull or a bear, and how will it impact your planning for 2020 and beyond?

Gonzobanker

Regardless of their viewpoints on capital recovery, now is the time for banking leaders to reevaluate their planning strategies. In a recent Fortune survey, 55% of corporate executives said they expect to return to 2019 capital spending levels sometime in 2021. What businesses need capital in the interim? Capital will be king!

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Getting The SME Crowdfunding Model Off The Ground

PYMNTS

Years in the making, the regulation was born from the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in 2012, with Title IV of the act — also known as Regulation A+ — enabling average joes to invest in companies seeking capital. Regulation A+ has made a mostly quiet splash on the market.

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Can Digital Media Startups Break Through, as Amazon, Facebook, Netflix Turn Up the Heat?

CB Insights

This statement is just as true for all the other media companies trying to cut through the noise and find audiences for their content: audiences are splintered across social media, niche sites, and video services. Early-stage deals accounted for less than 45% of overall deals in 2017 YTD compared to over 75% in 2012.