PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

In an appearance at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social media platform didn’t anticipate the foreign interference that sought to disrupt the U.S. presidential election in 2016, but has since put up safeguards against misinformation.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

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. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

One company that has received a fair share of media attention on the topic of chat commerce is social media giant Facebook. 2016 that it would be allowing the 30,000 and growing chatbots to accept payments. Some are saying that Facebook is reinventing the way retail operates with its eCommerce chatbot integration.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. “One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The company was founded in 2016. This new push for funding marks only the latest development in India’s retail game, which has led to growth for homegrown players and also attracted some of the biggest digital operators in the world. As it stands, the company rolled out Prime services in the country in 2016. Amazon’s Moves.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. The growth path of the company in addition to the larger opportunity in social media helped it get acquired by AOL for approximately $850 million in 2008. Then it reportedly pivoted again into the organization and operation of streaming tournaments.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does. We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram. Gucci Operation. That’s because sales of luxury goods in China are skyrocketing — up around 20 percent from 2016 — in its sharpest growth since 2011, as Chinese millennials seek products like handbags and cosmetics. percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. “One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It costs merchants nothing to join or remain on Sky.Garden; all they provide is their shop name, MPesa phone number and a few personal and business details (such as operating hours). They spent several months traveling and researching before raising their first capital from friends and family in early 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

billion in Q4 2016, the first full quarter of Same Day ACH Credit availability. The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction. The social side of Venmo makes it less awkward,” said Vaughan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BlackBerry, the once-maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter contending the social media platform operator engaged in patent infringement. According to a report in Reuters citing the lawsuit, BlackBerry contends Twitter infringed on patents covering its technology in its mobile message apps.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The Post-Courier reports that in Papua New Guinea, users of the social media giant will have to get their feeds and updates and funny videos elsewhere, as a month-long shutdown looms. This will allow genuine people with real identities to use the social network responsibly.” Facebook going dark?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The way the eCommerce operator uses the data it collects from those merchants who list and sell their products via Amazon’s marketplace, putting them into competition with the marketplace host. Expansion into Turkey is just the latest in Amazon’s efforts to be operational across the globe. based tech firms operating there.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Its team works with each D2C partner to reach targeted audiences with lead generation tactics like social media and influencer marketing, email marketing and SEO. The company noted that Best4Less has experienced a 1000 percent increase in GMV since 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

Citi said this month that its corporate treasury application programming interfaces (APIs) and platforms have processed over $26 billion for enterprise clients less than three years after the November 2016 rollout of APIs via CitiConnect. Some of the restaurants have joined a movement with a popular social media hashtag of #logout.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

It made a largely unreported acquisition of a firm called STARTEK earlier this year, and although it may sound like an acquisition more appropriate for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space exploration firm, the business is a call center operator and engagement outsourcing specialist. Evine is getting ready to expand.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

Facebook (FB) shares have hit record highs amid investor optimism on the social media giant’s upcoming Q1 earnings report. Research from Proofpoint found a 45 percent spike in BEC attacks in the last quarter of 2016 compared to Q3. billion in attempted wire fraud between October 2013 and May 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

The report quoted Jeff Marsilio, the NBA’s senior vice president of new media distribution, as saying, “The Base:Line playlist will have about 40 songs with a hip-hop vibe and will be refreshed weekly.” The NBA exec said the tracks will also be on the organization’s website, on its app and featured on social media game highlights.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , citing Dada-JD Daohjia, the company is partly owned by JD.com and operates two businesses: Dada, the delivery service that has a network of 5 million delivery men, and JD Daojia, which partners with retails stores to provide delivery services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

The name of Kohl’s game is digital updates to traditional in-store standards, like hologram displays instead of mannequins and social media walls instead of reviews. We are really trying to optimize the use of stores in eCommerce,” Lavu told Fortune. “Once we have that, then it’s about driving the right in-store experiences.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Unattended retail technology for restaurants is designed to do just that, by simplifying restaurant operations and allowing businesses to cut labor costs by automating the ordering process. Click here to download the December 2016 PYMNTS.com Unattended Retail Tracker™. Dining’s brave new table technology future. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

The company also previously raised $200,000 in a 2016 seed round, but information on investors for that round was not available on Crunchbase. The company, which has operations in Silicon Valley and India, currently has seven employees. It plans to hire 12 to 14 people across technical and marketing domains.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But the social media company’s stock was down in after-hours trading, as investors were taken aback by the projected uptick in the platform’s rising operating costs in the year ahead. Q3 earnings and revenue both came in significantly higher than expected, with strong growth in Facebook’s mobile advertising business.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. Social media is a special challenge since social media was not created with compliance in mind. I can see how some other social media channels may be more prevalent and important in the U.S. 09:49 am Finovate Fall 2016 Day 1 Recap.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

According to Zach Hensley, vice president of operations and guest experiences for the Seahawks and CenturyLink Field, these services are changing how fans experience live games and boosting their overall enjoyment. million people in 2016 to 17.2 Attendance at NFL games declined from approximately 17.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

They’re examining eReceipt data that shows when a customer was in a particular store and what they bought, and forming partnerships with analytics companies to measure website views, social media opinions and other analytics from a more objective standpoint.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. 01:20 pm William Mills, CEO of William Mills Agency, and Stephen Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, discuss highlights from FinovateSpring 2016 Day 1. She manages all digital and social media efforts on behalf of agency clients.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The analysis revealed the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant is rapidly increasing headcount to strengthen its specialized product and product innovation teams. Facebook has announced plans to integrate Oculus with its social media platform through Facebook Spaces.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Nearly three-quarters of small businesses told American Express they have a positive outlook on both the economy and their own businesses over the next six months — up from 64 percent in 2016. and more than half said they remain confident about overseas operations. Growth plans are now SMEs’ top priority, the report declared.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

The latest technological development that’s been a hot topic over the past year has been chatbots, due mostly to Facebook’s unveiling of its Messenger platform with embedded chatbots in April 2016. Through the use of TeslaBot, anyone owning a Tesla will be able to operate various aspects of their car through voice commands.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Diana Chin (HR & Operations). The account has a tie into social media and sharing. This is the integration of mobile social media with trading. Check back for new updates throughout the day. Virtual reality?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Recent video footage also Read More.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Park, said the complaint, was part of a hacker group backed by the North Korean government (where operations were conducted in part through Chosun Expo Joint Venture, a state-owned entity), and the charges unsealed by the United States tied him to other attacks, including headline-grabbing 2017 WannaCry 2.0 Park is being charged by the U.S.

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