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Retail SMBs Face Up To Q4 Marketing Opportunities

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28), which is supported by American Express nationally. It’s also an area where the big six or other retailers won’t play this year, focusing instead on regional and national media. Social media has always been the go-to media for retailers due to its ability to target locally, and retarget as well.

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Big Tech Faces Regulation Reckoning As 2021 Dawns

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If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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Identity As A Service To The Rescue

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Social media platforms are infested with phonies, and not just your best friend’s irritating co-worker (although he totally is). This is about the fact that fake identities comprise 25 percent of new social media accounts created every day, and that 53 percent of all social media logins are fraudulent , according to a recent study.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Backs Data Portability Law, Amazon Considers Registering Services As Separate Entities In India

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The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. The services are not currently registered as distinct entities, although they are provided to users in the nation. German Gov’t Looks Into Amazon’s Use of Its Market Position Amid Pandemic.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: EU Prepares To Propose New Big Tech Regulations; Turkey Fines Big Tech Platforms $1.18M

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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. It also mandates that social media platforms put a local representative in place to handle the concerns of the authorities.

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India’s Telecom Regulator Head Sharma To Stay On For Two More Years

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10), but will now have the additional time to continue to shape rules pertaining to the internet as the market in India takes off. Reuters noted that Sharma took on Facebook and Apple , helping to shape rules that prevent internet service providers from charging different prices for accessing different parts of the internet.

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Chase On Gen Z, Mobile Banking — 10 Years In

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In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. China isn’t the only nation where consumers have their pick of banking options, though.

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