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Squarespace Announces IPO Plans; Files Confidentially With SEC

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Squarespace announced that it had applied for a confidential registration to go public with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), a release says. The brief press release doesn't constitute an offer to sell and doesn't mean there's any offer to buy securities on the table.

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Social Shopping Struggles With The Burden Of Potential

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Ask Amazon, which had to shutter its social shopping entry, Spark, after two years in July 2019. percent of online sales came from social channels. However, 8 percent of Cyber Monday visits did originate from social media, an increase of 17.5 Brand advertisers, it says, need to justify social media ROI.

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As the U.S. Banking Sector Lags—Banking Brand Values Go Up

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banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8

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Deep Dive: Using Phone Verification And Text Messaging For Secure Checkouts

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Social Security Administration, for example, requires recipients using its website to provide unique eight-digit codes sent via text to their smartphones in addition to their usernames and passwords when they sign up or log in. . A silver lining exists, however. It also outlines some of the frictions entities face when doing so. .

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Lost Pet Posters Get An Upgrade For The Digital Age

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And the idea is to take advantage of the ongoing rise of mobile commerce and social media to create, in essence, digital communities centered around pets — and not just ones that spark to life when little Fido goes missing, or plots an escape from a dog park or a particular section of the beach in the summer. Social Media Aspect.

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Instagram Drives New Social Commerce Momentum

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Sephora says it has put 80 of its brands onto Instagram checkout. Sephora is thrilled to work with Instagram on this unique social shopping experience,” Carolyn Bojanowski, SVP and GM of eCommerce for Sephora, said in a press release. is any indication, social commerce will be a force in the eCommerce space. billion in 2019.

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Amazon And Valentino Sue Over Alleged Counterfeits

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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. HBR called for luxury-goods brands to refocus on controlling their supply chains to fight the problem.