CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Following 48 hours of media attention for his contentious comments about social media “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” the Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook exec discussed his take on stage Wednesday at CB Insights’ A-ha! Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t backing down. conference.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook will increase its security offerings, especially for high-profile users, the social media giant announced Tuesday (Dec. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook security head, told Axios: “Bad actors are trying to target social media assets of prominent voices.

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ForwardBanker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Every quarter, The Financial Brand publishes an updated ranking of the top 100 best-performing banks and credit unions on social media. The Power 100 rankings for Q1 2016 are in, and if you made the list — congratulations! The post Valuable Lessons from the Best Bank Brands on Social Media appeared first on Deluxe FI.

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MAY 1, 2020

advertisers probably won’t “like” its subpar rating from a media industry watchdog. The Media Rating Council (MRC) review found that the California-based social media giant has failed to address advertisers’ concerns arising from an Ernst & Young audit over how it measures and reports data about video advertisements. .

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections, first made international headlines when it was discovered in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica stole information on some 87 million Facebook users after being hired by President Trump’s 2016 election campaign. The psychographic profiling of U.S.

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MARCH 13, 2017

70 percent of SMEs didn’t use tax software in 2016 , found Office Depot in its most recent Small Business Index survey. sought external financing in 2016 , suggesting these firms simply aren’t interested in lending technologies or accessing, for instance, a loan from an alternative finance provider. 37 percent of SMEs in the U.K.

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JULY 24, 2019

The SEC began probing Facebook after revelations that Cambridge Analytica , a data-analytics firm that had ties to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, got access to information on millions of Facebook users. The new case was over whether the social media firm violated that decree not. .

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Citing people familiar with the matter, Cheddar reported that the device, which is the social media giant’s first major entrance into the hardware market, is being marketed as a way for friends and families to connect via video chat and social features, rather than a voice-controlled speaker.

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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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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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APRIL 26, 2019

The New York State Attorney General (AG) is reportedly launching an investigation into social media giant Facebook , focusing on the its past practice of collecting more than 1.5 The practice ended in May of 2016, but Facebook maintained access to the email address books of the 1.5 million email address books of users.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Facebook may be under fire for how it handles the data on its more than two billion monthly active users, but the social media company has been trying to get its hands on financial information from the financial services firms for years, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, is pushing back against two antitrust lawsuits filed against the social media giant, CNBC reported on Friday (Dec. percent of proposed mergers from 2008 to 2016. Sandberg said approved mergers shouldn’t later be revoked. .

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The Paypers

MARCH 7, 2017

(The Paypers) MindShift Interactive has estimated that around USD 50 billion sale was generated in 2016 using social networks with an increase of USD 20 billion from 2015.

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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. Potentially, the uprising of chat commerce may have the opportunity to entirely overtake the app economy.

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JULY 28, 2019

Stamos led Facebook’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, the Observatory is a cross-disciplinary initiative comprised of research, teaching and policy engagement addressing the abuse of today’s information technologies, with a particular focus on social media.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Amid data sharing and online privacy controversies, Facebook recently promoted on billboards what Bloomberg called the social media operator’s “new approach to user safety and privacy.” McDonald’s and Apple also held the top two spots in 2016. percent year-over-year growth rate in 2016 or the 4.6 Examples abound.

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The Financial Brand

JULY 4, 2016

The top 100 banks using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube ranked by their social media activity through the second quarter of 2016.

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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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JANUARY 13, 2017

Snapchat still has a bit to go before it catches up to the social media and commerce infrastructure in place in the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, though the Snapchat app interface gives the company a definite edge. And some 80 percent of shoppers in Southeast Asia used social media to research items and contact sellers.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Of course in recent years, bots have been given a bad name, due to Russian bots bombarding social media outlets during the 2016 election. “Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Pinterest is the fastest-growing costume influencer on social media at 17 percent, but the social media site has seen 133 percent growth since 2012. Pop culture is at 16 percent, and print media influences 14 percent of all costume decisions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

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 Additionally, 80 percent of shoppers in Southeast Asia used social media to research items and contact sellers. says market research firm GlobalWebIndex.

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APRIL 8, 2016

The battle to better monetize its service rolls on for Pinterest — the social media site most naturally fitted to commerce with its vast catalogs on “pinned” items. and will continue through the English-speaking world through the second half of 2016, according to the social media firm.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

and Australia, all called on the social media giant to stop the plan to use encryption unless it gave law enforcement access. . Apple had to deal with a legal fight in 2016 over access to the phone of the perpetrator of the San Bernardino shootings in California. . That is not something we are prepared to do.”.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

and Australia, all called on the social media giant to stop the plan to use encryption unless it gave law enforcement access. . Apple had to deal with a legal fight in 2016 over access to the phone of the perpetrator of the San Bernardino shootings in California. . That is not something we are prepared to do.”.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The survey also found that social media won’t add much to any KPIs. It was rated as contributing only moderate value to company performance figures, and has been flat since 2016. Thirty percent of marketers now report the ability to prove the impact of social media on company performance, up from 18 percent in 2017.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. So why not?

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MARCH 16, 2016

According to the digital retailer, the firm made the expansion as a result of shoppers’ social media behavior and feedback. ModCloth says the decision was inspired in part by shoppers’ behavior on social media. The expansion also follows staffing upgrades in the San Francisco based fashion startup.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup offers a suite of tools to help businesses detect risks — such as phishing, malicious files, link sharing and malware — on social media and digital channels. Foster, the firm’s CEO, previously headed R&D at Foundstone and Guardent.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Back then, he had warned executives at the social media company of the potentially damaging impact of Facebook’s data sharing policies. Financial Times highlighted a 2016 blog post in which Parakilas warned about the impact of social media. “We In 2017, Parakilas provided the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The news isn’t surprising, given the negative press the social media giant has experienced over the past year when up to 87 million Facebook users had their data shared with the controversial research firm Cambridge Analytica. “Facebook’s crises continue rolling in the news cycle.”.

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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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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

politician said Facebook was aware that Russian-linked organizations were harvesting data from the social media giant, since October 2014, according to Bloomberg. Facebook previously said it was unaware of the activity until after the 2016 election.

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MAY 8, 2017

Over the course of the past year, the social media giant has introduced various new components for its Messenger platform. Back in November 2016 , Facebook introduced a new feature to its Messenger platform with its Instant Games to a limited number of users. 27 percent — connecting with friends and family.

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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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