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Transformations In Social Media Commerce And Restaurant Technology 

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Social media platforms are aiming to harness their contextual commerce potential. And in restaurant innovation, Domino ’s has become a leader in mobile and digital technology as it blazes its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. All this, Today in Data.

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DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook No Slam Dunk

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Facebook bought Instagram, the photo- and video-sharing social networking service, in 2012 for $1 billion and WhatsApp, the cross-platform messaging service, in 2014 for $19 billion. Other technology giants including Google , Amazon and Apple are also facing probes. There is no ‘it’s too hard’ defense,’” Wu told WSJ.

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Is #donate The First Step To #buy?

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In fact, the company, which launched in 2014 and is based in Washington, D.C., is the only social fundraising platform with hashtag-to-donate technology on both Facebook and Twitter. Think about it: A person who makes a donation in the public sphere of social media might encourage others to do the same.

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India’s Jio Gets $750M Boost From Silver Lake

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billion Jio investment, which gave the social media giant an almost 10 percent stake in Jio, which is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. went public in 2014. The deal follows Facebook’s recent $5.7 With the Silver Lake investment, Jio’s valuation hit $65 billion, 12.5 percent more than it was following Facebook’s investment.

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Adobe Acquires Facebook’s Oculus Medium VR Tool

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Social media giant Facebook is selling Oculus Medium, its virtual reality sculpting tool, to Adobe , reports revealed on Saturday (Dec. Facebook bought the tech and VR firm for $2 billion in 2014 and launched Medium two years later. Oculus Medium is an immersive 3D sculpting tool used in filmmaking and video games.

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Regulators’ Probes, Looming Lawsuits Target Facebook Over Antitrust Issues

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3) that virtual reality startups are accusing Facebook of muscling out the competition in that up-and-coming technology. 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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Singapore, Thailand Love Instagram, eCommerce

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The region’s most technologically advanced nation, Singapore, is working toward a smart nation. The country had a mobile penetration rate of 148 percent in 2014. Currently, about 30 percent of all online sales in Southeast Asia in 2016 occurred through social networks, like Facebook, Instagram and Line (Naver Corp.’s