PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have their anxious eyes on Facebook this Tuesday (October 30), as the social media operator plans to report third-quarter 2018 results after the market close. The company suffered its biggest one-day market value loss in July on warnings of slow growth for the rest of the year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. Another issue is attached to this recent news: Searches – specifically, product searches, which help drive online commerce. percent in 2018.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Both established markets and emerging vendors on the Dark Web have been actively promoting fresh inventory and steep discounts for holiday sales, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Another popular category in the underground is account markets. The number and popularity of such tools has grown substantially starting in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

The rise of online and contactless transactions in the European Union, for example, has meant that many merchants are making the bulk of their sales away from brick-and-mortar stores. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

CNBC is reporting that despite a year of scandals for social media giant Facebook, advertisers are still flocking to the company, and user base and ad revenues continue to grow. 2018 was a tough year for Facebook. percent in 2018, and is predicted to reach 22.9 billion, according to eMarketer. percent in 2017 to 21.8

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

In a press release , Visa said the international trip is the sequel to the Visa Cashless Challenge, which awarded $500,000 earlier in 2018 to small businesses in the U.S. To find the traveler, Visa is partnering with social media travel personalities, Arden Cho and brothers Alex and Marko Ayling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

One of the takeaways from the Platform Economy Playbook is that amidst tech innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) to help personalize clothing selection and speed up delivery and social media-powered commerce, customer service has become a differentiator. Digital platforms have also given the resale market a boost.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

In fact, the old-fashioned form of outdoor advertising is winning over digital marketing heavyweights and finding ways to thrive in the online world. 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.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Even in the quiet seasons, the online travel market is susceptible to the trade winds, and they don’t always blow in agents’ favor. But what hurts a business (especially a small one) more than an October snowstorm is when online fraudsters use CNP transactions to steal their services. The Rise of CNP Fraud.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

GPay , a member company of the Vietnam investment firm G-Group , joins a tight FinTech market in Vietnam with 33 other firms licensed for intermediary payment services. The G-Group ecosystem includes Vietnam’s social media network Gapo and P2P lending platform Tima. G-Group financed the seed funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The social media-focused platform company’s business model is simple: it’s a retail destination for consumers looking to sell their second-hand apparel and other goods or pick up desirable designer items for fraction of the price. Unique to Poshmark are social media aspects like the ability to share “likes” on favored items. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s not surprising, then, that for many businesses, the in-person networking events are more popular than online networking platforms. peers when it comes to turning online for building professional connections and engaging new buyers or suppliers,” he recently told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To an extent, that same spirit and intention is behind the recent spate of government approvals for online gambling. That leads to the product of said online activity — and that’s money. We’re growing a market of people who have never bet before in Tennessee.”. We’re bringing sports gambling out of the shadows,” she said.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

While this is true everywhere, this is a particular challenge in a market like India. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. The municipal bond market has always been pretty low on the radar for most firms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. It was said to have become “the market leader” in some countries such as Ireland and the U.K. 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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The new division was launched with the aim of integrating advanced technology and the regulation of China’s securities markets, enabling precise data analytics. From August 2017 to April 2018, Eyal and his company allegedly conducted a fraudulent unregistered securities offering by selling Shopin Tokens in an ICO. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Fashion online marketplace Zilingo has announced a $226 million funding round, one of the largest for an eCommerce startup in Southeast Asia and a major show of support among investors for the company’s increasing attention on the B2B side of the market. Reports in Tech In Asia on Tuesday (Feb. The company’s revenue hit $1.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced fraud charges against a Brooklyn individual and two of his entities who allegedly engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell digital securities to investors and to manipulate the market for those securities. million the defendants raised in 2017 and 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An IPO from an Alibaba -backed online platform is fueled by those connections, and also serves as an example of the rise of contextual commerce, even if that debut has not gone as expected. News reports blame a weak market for the less-than-expected IPO success. Social, as one can imagine, is a big part of contextual commerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Pablo Mauron, a managing director for Digital Luxury Group, said the luxury market has noticed WeChat’s potential. “I I think WeChat is finally becoming what it’s supposed to be for luxury brands, which is not just a social media app,” Mauron said. That number is up from 36 percent in 2018.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This song, meaning “time gone by,” has our team reflecting on some milestones that have impacted social and digital media. As we wrap up 2018, here are a several milestones our team is reflecting on, plus a current status update: 2006: Myspace reigns as the most popular internet site — marking more unique visits than Google itself.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. The counterfeits [are] kind of flooding the markets,” he told Federal News Network. “It

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. That mindset “is becoming increasingly necessary if retailers want to remain competitive in the market,” the index found. Just under half — or 45.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. Cars.com, based in Chicago, launched in 1998 and became a public company in 2017 in its spin-off from TV broadcaster and digital media firm Tegna. and autoscout24.de.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 100-page catalog would arrive near the end of October for kids to look through and create wish lists before December — filling, perhaps, the void left by Toys R Us when it went out of business (in part because of competition from Amazon and other online retailers). Online retail accounted for 53.7 Williams Sonoma is one example.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

subscription box market by 2022 is £1b. The company’s early days, however, were not in commerce: FabFitFun began as a newsletter that developed into a blog and online magazine, and diversified in a wholly new direction with the launch of subscription boxes six years into the journey. in the fourth quarter of 2018 (although it added 7.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees. Bundled sports broadcast packages, social media and high-definition televisions allow them to enjoy games from the comfort of their living rooms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season. under the age of 14.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Target’s demographic is migrating online — and toward Amazon. We are going to make sure we are taking more than our fair share of that market.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Failures — well, they bring social media infamy and headlines, to say nothing of lost revenue, frustrated investors and, in some cases, the forced vacation known as unemployment. That’s not to suck any cheerful anticipation out of the 2018 holiday shopping season, during which U.S. 26 will bring online spending of $7.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. Back to 2012.

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BankBazaar

JULY 1, 2019

The award is in recognition of BankBazaar Aspiration Index 2018. Given the emergence of Indian millennials as a key target group for every marketer, we recommended a specific focus on this target group in client’s communication. We launched a category-first Millennial Aspiration Index representing the target group’s aspirations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Call it the Great Trade-Off, perhaps: Consumers give up data to online merchants and marketers in exchange for free services, targeted offers, discounts and other benefits. An ideal in online trust is what Aygen called “augmented reality,” which means “human brain power added to the power of a machine.”. Trust Evolution.

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