PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Pinterest, the social media company, is nearing $1 billion in advertising revenue and is eyeing an initial public offering in the middle of next year. Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has said he expects the company to launch its IPO in 2019. billion in June of last year.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Amazon , in one case, had to close its Spark social shopping entry last year – but multiple market dynamics could drive growth for social shopping in 2020. Data: 2019: The year Amazon shuttered its Spark social shopping entry. 3.5B: Amount Amazon earned in advertising revenue for Q3 2019.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 3, 2019

Bank, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation Build 2019, this blog’s event on best practices in banking innovation. Dominic Venturo, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at U.S. Bank Innovation Build will take place November 6-7 at Atlanta’s W Hotel Downtown. Register here.)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in its costs and expenses for the full year 2019 — that increase coming as the social media platform faces more questions from regulators and policymakers about its present and planned endeavors. billion — but declined 16 percent for the full year 2019, decreasing to $18.48

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

As recently as a few years ago, experts were predicting the era of social media platforms was over, and that new entrants were far less likely to make a dent on the market than be bought out by the established names in the game. In that effort, in fact, it is hardly alone as social media platforms go.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Social media-focused clothing reseller Poshmark became the latest platform company to file for an initial public offering (IPO) this week, hoping to catch an IPO wave that saw big first-day pops recently for Airbnb and DoorDash. million in 2019, Poshmark made $21.1 That’s up 28 percent from the same 2019 period.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At Think 2019, the security team behind the IBM Cyber Range will bring the stress of a cyber incident directly to the audience. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. –> Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions. Feel what thousands of cyber range clients have experienced.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Next Web , hours after moving all raised funds out of its wallet, the company shut down its website, deleted its social media accounts and kicked all users off its chat group. And Venezuela is trying to lure the world’s oil markets to start using its national cryptocurrency, the petro.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

and another one is ready to open, both of them seeking a new market as their home turf sees retail struggles. We’re excited to bring our vertically integrated model to the United States, the largest home improvement market in the world,” a Wren Kitchens spokesperson said. The British are coming. One of the U.K.’s expat effort.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The European Commission has rolled out high-profile probes into firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon over worries that their market supremacy is negatively impacting competition. million) penalty for not following a new social media law, Reuters reported, citing Omer Fatih Sayan, the deputy transport and infrastructure minister.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

In the latest of a string of outages as of the beginning of March, Robinhood Markets Inc. It has also suffered a number of outages, especially on days of elevated trading as the market responded to reports on COVID-19’s economic effect. At the conclusion of 2019, Robinhood said it had 10 million users.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“The urgency of this research cannot be overstated,” King and Persily said on Social Science One’s website last April. “We We believe we can provide the fuel in the form of data access to the scholarly community to help solve some of the major issues in social media that affect elections and democracy across the world.”.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

Louis office including Marketing, Finance, Legal, HR, IT, Digital, and the St. Louis colleagues celebrated the Stanley Cup win in 2019. Colleagues now engage in philathropic and social activites through technology like video calls, Microsoft Teams , and social media. There was even a virtual retirement party!

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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. In 2019, Payme, FinViet, EPay, PayTech, Dibee and Smart Net were granted licenses from Vietnam’s central bank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The social media giant said it used the app as one of its market intelligence tools and that it notified users of all data collection activities. Based on Facebook’s 2019 revenue, those fines could exceed $7 billion. This information gave Facebook insider information about its competitors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

On Monday (June 29), the company said it was adding a number of sweeteners aimed at helping video creators and publishers earn more money on the social media site. YouTube pulled in $15 billion in ad revenue in 2019. Facebook is upping the ante again in its bid to lure online video personalities to its platform.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. That sum is more like a friendly reminder to Google, which did $40 billion in revenue in Q3 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Instagram , the Facebook -owned photo-sharing social media platform, has officially launched a new voice messaging feature on Instagram Direct. This is the latest feature launched by the social media site. 80 percent of India’s online fashion market is controlled by Flipkart-Myntra and Amazon India.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

The social media giant aims to leverage Reliance Jio to expand its presence in the Indian digital market as the country experiences a digital transformation. tech firms in the Indian market. If the deal happens, it will strengthen Facebook’s position in the Indian market. India replaced the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

The DOJ has had an interest in Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google since the summer of 2019, starting a broad investigation into whether the firms have been engaging in anti-competitive practices. He didn’t comment on when the investigation would be complete, but he said it was not politically driven, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The FTC is investigating Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Microsoft over antitrust implications, and it recently asked the companies to turn over information regarding takeovers of smaller companies between the years of 2010 and 2019. This will help us continue to keep tech markets open and competitive, for the benefit of consumers.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The announcement was made by Xiaomi Chief Executive Lei Jun, who posted a letter on the company’s social media account. “We Beijing-based Xiaomi has a lot of competition from Huawei, which had 42 percent of China’s smartphone market in the third quarter of 2019. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

CEO Evan Spiegel outlined profitability goals for 2019 in a memo last year and as of June 30, the company had more than $335 million in cash and equivalents and $849 million in marketable securities. billion in 2017 and will likely top $3 billion by the close of 2019. Its stock is up 181 percent year to date. .

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. Social-based marketing. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. Hyper-connected journey.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

billion spent on TV advertising in 2019 illustrates. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 billion in 2019 and is projected to total $62.1 Banks can even harness external regulatory, trading and social media engagement data, all of which can be processed and analyzed to benefit their operations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Also, drawing in and retaining users is Snap’s content discovery platform, Discover, which saw an impressive 35 percent bump in users watching content in 2019, and a 60 percent increase in daily time spent on the site by users over the age of 25. In 2019 we saw momentum across the board.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Tencent has been doing well this year, PYMNTS previously reported , with better earnings in the first quarter of this year than it had in 2019. The company had a total net revenue of $15.2 billion, 26 percent higher year over year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Waze was considered by some to be part social media site, part navigation app. It was literally Google acquiring its number one competitor in maps,” said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, which is pushing for a crackdown on big internet platforms. “It

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Facebook is accused of using its market power to keep out companies that offer competing games and services. The social media giant is also the world’s biggest virtual reality hardware maker, due to its 2014 acquisition of Oculus for $2 billion. It was in 2019 that the U.S. Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to research from solutions provider iKala , social commerce orders in the first half of 2020 more than doubled, while gross merchandise value (GMV) grew three-fold compared to 2019. Social commerce is growing rapidly, and every day social media companies are adding new capabilities to support this growth. “The

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Three years after launching, the startup hit the half-million customer mark in August 2019. BNPL providers are seeing market growth and new funding opportunities. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. and Canada and is quickly growing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

WhatsApp started testing its Indian Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in 2018 with 1 million users and had planned for a 2019 launch, but the initiative got hung up by regulatory issues. Facebook considers India to be one of its biggest markets and “reaffirmed” its commitment to India earlier in April, said. billion to acquire a 9.99

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Those needs are a viable social media to grab younger consumers and an expansion of its eCommerce capacity. in February 2019. But internal data from March 2019 shows its largest age demographic (42 percent) is the 18- to 24-year-old cohort. Will the under-24 crowd buy enough goods via the nascent area of social commerce?

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Are you ready to pop the champagne and celebrate the start of 2019? This song, meaning “time gone by,” has our team reflecting on some milestones that have impacted social and digital media. 2010: Instagram launches as a photo and video-sharing social media network.

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