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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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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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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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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JANUARY 3, 2019

You can be sure that one area of regression involves social media. New research, in fact, supports that idea — specifically, the high value that consumers attach to Facebook , and the high cost it would take to make them leave the social media platform. But that doesn’t mean consumers plan to leave Facebook anytime soon.

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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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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

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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MARCH 8, 2019

percent since the start of 2019, it is still 37 percent below the multi-year high it reached last June, according to Bloomberg. Twitter isn’t the only social media site looking to boost its privacy measures. And while the stock has gained 4.8 consulting firm that has since closed down. That’s a tradeoff we’re willing to make.

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JUNE 14, 2019

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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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Social media fraud has been on the rise during the past year. Such schemes entail fraudsters falsely advertising offers from restaurants on social media, then duping victims into paying for them and absconding with the funds. Developments From The Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Social media giant Facebook is bringing its online dating tool to Europe after seeing success in the 20 countries where Facebook Dating is already offered, the company said in a statement on Thursday (Oct. The company said it took privacy seriously and integrated safety and security measures developed with experts.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

To those working in the financial services industry, security is at the core of their business. The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning might help protect business assets, but it is also making it easier for the bad guys to find holes in the security. Read more about the security sessions taking place at Think.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Social media-based campaigns are also proving to be especially useful during the health crisis. Many nonprofits are turning to peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaigns in which donors create pages on social media platforms to promote causes to their family members and friends.

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APRIL 22, 2020

In 2019, Payme, FinViet, EPay, PayTech, Dibee and Smart Net were granted licenses from Vietnam’s central bank. GPay has a supportive ecosystem from G-Group with above 20 million users of financial platforms, game community, social network and technology companies. G-Group financed the seed funding.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

In today’s top news, Facebook reports a 51 percent increase in expenses for 2019 in its Q4 earnings release, Goldman focuses on expanding its digital consumer bank and Airbnb hires former Disney President Catherine Powell to head its Experiences division. FICO’s Take on Debit Security.

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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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APRIL 24, 2019

Indeed, even as Facebook reported not only gains in users but mobile advertising for the first quarter of 2019, CEO Mark Zuckerberg put a spotlight on digital privacy when discussion his company’s latest financial results. The federal agency has accused the social media platform of violating a privacy consent decree from 2011.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The legislator was reportedly referring to the policy that the social media company rolled out a day prior to prohibiting very manipulated videos made by machine learning or artificial intelligence. Experts reportedly brought attention to the national security as well as the societal implications of manipulated digital media.

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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. It also wants to examine how the smaller companies operated post-acquisition.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Vietnam ’s new social network platform, Lotus, is looking to raise as much as 1.2 Developed by media group VCCorp, Lotus has already secured an initial investment of 700 billion dong ($30.4 The social media company has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment to feature music content. trillion dong ($52.1

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Preventing fraud with seamless and secure onboarding solutions is key. billion transactions that occurred between July and September 2019 were the result of massive bot attacks. Others are rolling out blockchain technologies to provide users with even greater personal data security.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

social media agency called Hydrogen said that “mass viewing of Instagram stories is the new buying followers of 2019,” in reference to how people used to try gaming the system on Facebook to get more friends.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Blackburn told Zhu in a letter in November that she worries the social media app “is paving the way for the Chinese government to gain unfettered and unsupervised access to our children’s lives.” (The CFIUS) has formally rolled out a national security review formally into the company’s acquisition of TikTok precursor Musical.ly.

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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. Protection (Security). –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. Hyper-connected journey. Day-to-day tasks.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the pandemic pop has segued into a holiday hustle, with 337 puppy scam reports being filed in November, versus less than 80 in 2019. Sometimes the rip-offs are just plain bogus businesses hiding behind seemingly real webpages or social media accounts. Not Just Puppies.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Madrid, Spain-based security firm buguroo is combatting account opening fraud with its bugFraud solution, which uses deep learning to detect fraud by measuring how application processes compare to legitimate transactions. Solution providers around the world are preparing to counter such attacks.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

In the era of social media, there are many, many ways to track the beginning of the school year without looking at a district calendar. However, some people would prefer to use data to judge social trends as opposed to viral social media posts – and luckily, back-to-school shopping has plenty of that to serve up.

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JUNE 24, 2020

“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. According to eMarketer, social commerce sales in China totaled $186.04

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

9), as reports are emerging that downloads of both Facebook and Instagram have fallen in 2019. The report offered no official explanation as to the lag in Facebook’s numbers, and its results are out of step with the rest of the social media segment, according to reports. Some worrying news for Facebook came out today (Sept.

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APRIL 29, 2020

A regulatory filing earlier in April indicated that WhatsApp wants to “advance money or give credit on such terms as may seem expedient, and with or without security, to customers and others.”. The social media giant invested $5.7 billion to acquire a 9.99 percent stake.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Personalization and privacy can live together and with 64 percent of retailers using it and 79 percent of consumers demanding it, the practice needs to be secure for privacy and compelling for personalization. Thirty-three percent of consumers report that lack of security features have stopped them from using voice commerce.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

25), the DPC said it was again looking into the social media giant because of another breach notification it received from the company, according to a report from Reuters. The DPC has this week opened a new statutory inquiry into the latest data breach it received from Twitter on 8 January, 2019,” the Commission said on its website.

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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. The government has told residents that the token must be used for anyone who would like to secure a passport.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Across the globe, terrorists and criminals are leveraging cryptos in what is gearing up to be a significant national security threat to the United States. The report relays a series of anecdotes, such as Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent methods , and points out that in 2019, over $4.5 That’s according to the U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Employing professionals to build out AI solutions, integrate automation into customer flows, and develop blockchain-based offerings is costly, and banks that lean on these tools to attract customers without implementing the appropriate security protocols could find themselves plagued by fraud or faced with compliance challenges.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The FTC has warned recently against the prominence of social media and app-driven fraud, which has tripled in the past year. The total reported losses for those types of fraud was $134 million in 2019, but the first six months of this year alone saw $117 million in such losses.

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JULY 16, 2019

Banks and merchants are racing to meet the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) deadline as September 2019 approaches. Social media giant Facebook is facing yet another batch of complaints around its practices in the region, with more claimants asserting it is not meeting GPDR requirements under the law.

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