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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Venture capitalists are funding new entrants to the field, and features like authenticity guarantees, postings to social media, the use of data and post-sale services could propel the industry forward, according to a new report from Fung Global Retail & Tech. Smaller firms are growing quickly and making gains in the market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The region’s internet economy is projected to become a $278 billion market by 2025 , with immense growth expected in all online sectors, but especially in mobile payments as companies across the region invest more in digital infrastructure. The country had a mobile penetration rate of 148 percent in 2014.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will decide on Wednesday (Dec. The CMA is very interested in tech giants extending their tentacles into other markets,” Alan Davis, a competition lawyer at Pinsent Masons in London, told Bloomberg. 10) if Amazon’s quest to acquire a stake in Deliveroo — among the U.K.’s

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Facebook is accused of using its market power to keep out companies that offer competing games and services. The social media giant is also the world’s biggest virtual reality hardware maker, due to its 2014 acquisition of Oculus for $2 billion. Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

While not a social media network, Sansan does promote connectivity between businesses and professionals. A 2014 study from best practice insights and technology company CEB found small businesses may not be using social media enough to interact with business partners.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach revenue of $66.9 What’s helping this generation rely on chain restaurants, according to some, are mobile devices and social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram. percent of people actively search social sites for food ideas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China. Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

When compared to the prominence of digital strategies in 2014, 2015 figures saw a significant jump across the board. Between 2014 and 2015, CPOs cited a 19 percent increase in the use of mobile technologies and a 10 percent increase in the use of social media efforts to boost their performance in the organization, researchers found.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Reuters , citing documents released by British lawmakers, reported that between 2012 and 2015 executives at the social media network operator — including chief executive Mark Zuckerberg — tracked how competitors were growing and then denied some access to user data that was available to other companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

A new app is poised to move social content marketing away from user-generated content and put the power in the hands of brands themselves. To date, the Tagly app has generated $2 million in seed funding from IZI Mobile, shares the outlet.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Though it’s now primarily used as a music and culture site, Myspace was one of the first social media networks that allowed personal profiles. 2010: Instagram launches as a photo and video-sharing social media network. What This Means: Social media channels for specific audiences will continue to develop.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

9), accusing the social media network of “illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct,” according to a press release. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 48 states launched a massive antitrust lawsuit on Facebook Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

The social media giant will reportedly test the new project in India first, and it could eventually allow people to transfer money through WhatsApp. Marcus first joined Facebook in 2014 as the head of Messenger, and he led early attempts at monetization within the app. Smedley has worked at both Amazon and Edelman.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

She eventually sued Bird for libel in 2013 — but not Yelp — and won a default judgement in 2014, winning $550,000 in damages. Beyond the implications of negative reviews and political speech, companies face other challenges in the race to control their digital marketing efforts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

It also created an Instagram-like social media platform through which celebrities can recommend products. This included a trading platform that featured thousands of sellers in the fashion market — including shoes, handbags and accessories. Xiaohongshu, which is backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Case in point: While most marketers recognize that mobile devices are one of the most powerful channels for engaging with consumers on their path-to-purchase, many are still not getting the most out of the channel. From 2014 to 2015, app-based consumer interactions grew 10 times. But what about social media , you might be asking?

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

The Chinese mobile payments market is worth an estimated $5.5 That is not a small number, but it does represent a sharp decline when one considers that in Q3 2015 Alibaba represented 71 percent of the market. In 2014 we focused on hongbao. trillion annually. Tenpay has a clear path,” said Mr Zhang. “In

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach a revenue of $66.9 What’s helping this generation rely on chain restaurants, according to some, are mobile devices and social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram. billion by 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Reuters reported that the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ding Ning – chairman of Anhui Yucheng Holdings Group, which rolled out Ezubao in 2014 – to life in prison. As the government steps up against risky and illegal behaviors in the financial sector, it is handing down tough sentences and regulating industries.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Before Megan Graddy co-founded the PostStich knitting subscription service, she had served as a publicist and had segued into small business marketing. The two began PostStitch in November 2014 as “the subscription concept was kind of booming,” Graddy told PYMNTS in an interview.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. If anything, at Coachella, this is where effective branding and timely marketing interventions come to together in perfect harmony.

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William Mills

JUNE 15, 2017

In 2014 Facebook published a blog announcing the addition of video features and functionality , and provided a simple, yet brilliant, definition of its latest digital connection tool,: the video. Creating a video doesn’t have to be a complex process or require a new line item in your marketing budget.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

The big changes at the firm began in 2014, when activist shareholders took control of the board and installed new management. In some senses, it wanted to be known as “the cool one,” or, at least the one with the most current look, style and approach to social media. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

Snapchat Cofounder and Co-CEO Neil Blumenthal told TechCrunch that the brand was eager to experiment with this unique product offering via Snapchat because of the social media platform’s uniqueness. This is a Snapchat exclusive, after all.)”. Heck, even stuffy, old GE was an early Snapchat bandwagoner. Warby Parker certainly has.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

“These voluntary resignations included members of the [retailer’s] leadership team and other employees that performed critical functions, including [its] director of tax, director of strategy and customer insights, senior director of social media, senior director of operations procurement, and various regional managers.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In 2014, the company dealt with something similar with its payment processing systems. MoneyGram has tapped into foreign exchange markets for settlements in the past. At the same time, an overzealous system will flag too many legitimate users and could send them looking for alternative providers on the market. Or does it?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Attorney General William Barr because the social media platform’s plans to encrypt messages on Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram might be too private. There’s no question that the identity verification market is growing. billion by 2024, while the biometrics market is projected to reach more than $59 billion by 2025.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The combination of product evolution, specialized analytics-savvy consultants, professional services firms, and cloud computing, has brought advanced analytics swiftly down market. Source: Celent survey of North American financial institutions, July 2014, n=78. But are they? In other words, they wished for it. Lack of Leadership.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Digital orders for local pizzerias is a largely untapped market. With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels. But many markets outside those areas are underserved.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Don’t.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. 30 Atlanta event will focus on digital marketing, which was identified as being among the top choices for an initial topic. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

They wanted to look nice, but with hundreds and thousands of new products launching on the market annually, only the most interested and invested consumers would ever encounter most of them. More recently, the brand has remapped how they connect with new customers — like bringing their entire influence marketing operation in-house.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The online review space has entered the social media era, and banks are struggling to catch up. Online reviews are social media. Most compliance departments treat online reviews as a form of social media, and the trend of customer intelligence has opened up a whole new way of understanding customers and building trust.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Attempts to connect through social media, email marketing or even in-person — there are tried-and-true ways of successfully connecting with consumers and ultimately incentivizing them to purchase. The market is estimated to be worth nearly $3 billion , growing tenfold over the past three years. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. With its Predictive Lifecycle and Marketing Platform, the Durham, N.C.-based

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