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JULY 17, 2020

Facebook Inc’s top executives could be required to testify before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the regulator investigates whether the California-based social media conglomerate has violated U.S. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg are preparing for potential depositions, a source told The Journal.

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APRIL 6, 2020

In today’s top news, Wells Fargo began taking loan applications, saying it will disperse $10 billion to nonprofits and small businesses, and Apple bought voice assistant startup Voysis. Apple Buys AI Voice Assistant Startup To Make Siri Smarter. Wells Fargo To Cap SMB Bailout Loans at $10 Billion. Siri is getting an assistant, sort of.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

AndroidAuthority.com reported last month that Spotify might still be the biggest music streaming platform in the world, but Apple Music is nipping at its heels. Since 2015, Apple has grown to more than 70 million subscribers , the website reported. Apple Music offers more than 50 million songs available on the cloud.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Legislators in the European Union have informed Alphabet , Facebook , Apple and Amazon that they are open to delaying a potential hearing beyond Feb. The two proposals serve one purpose: to make sure that we, as users, have access to a wide choice of safe products and services online. 1, its initially scheduled date, Reuters reported.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

“Dominant online platforms have more power to shape public opinion than newspapers or the television ever had, yet they face very little regulation or liability,” Rometty said. after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.”.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kering is gearing up to offer its own luxury eCommerce sites within the next two years, ending existing joint-venture efforts and bringing such operations in house, reported Reuters. By 2020, Kering will bring full control of its luxury brands online through its own internal activities, which include building tech teams, said Reuters.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and artificial intelligence. The comments came as the Chinese company posted its best-ever quarterly results, thanks to smartphone games, online payments and advertising. billion yuan.

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JULY 10, 2019

With the digital identity market expected to reach $15 billion by 2024, major ID providers such as Google and Apple are racing to improve the identity verification experience. Apple announced its own digital ID program, Sign In with Apple, at its recent Worldwide Developers Conference.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Phishing attempts surged 640 percent last year alone, with hackers placing malicious URLs on domains such as Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and PayPal, according to a recent report. Malware targeting computers running the Windows 7 operating system were especially hard-hit, rising 125 percent, according to the report.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Treasury’s top international tax official, called the taxes “ill-conceived,” and said the better option was to go after tax reform internationally at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ). Australia is planning a similar tax plan as well. Harter said.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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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. percent — said ordering products and services through social media was a motivation for innovation. Just under half — or 45.9

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MAY 24, 2018

Native commerce is where Aberman believes all platforms are headed — and that’s not just true for software developers like Apple, Google and Microsoft, but also for social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. “In It’ll be commerce in context of where you spend your time, whether physically or online.”.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Similarly, industry and society are moving on to new experiences in futuristic online “worlds” with functioning economies where real-world and virtual events commingle in an evolution of social media-style community offering safety from COVID and, increasingly, commerce. Murmurs From The Metaverse.

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MARCH 30, 2020

But, he noted, these consumers also have been raised on a more refined version of the retail experience by way of players like Apple, Tesla and other forward thinkers — and it is that hands-on experience they’ve come to enjoy and appreciate as an extension of their digital commerce journeys. “As

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, Affirm has launched a new app that will let customers use the service to pay almost anywhere online or in the real world. Domino’s Supreme Court Decision Spotlights Online Web Accessibility . And Silicon Valley tech startup Neighborly is reportedly having money woes and can’t make payroll. .

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Edelman Trust Barometer shows that public confidence in search engines and social media platforms fell 11 percentage points from 2017 and 2018. Apple — like Google — faces mounting criticism over how it’s handled government censorship in China. Apple: Director of privacy compliance.

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JUNE 17, 2016

We were thrilled to report that the health of those businesses that line the side streets and main streets of Any Town, USA are not only healthy and growing but making the local economies in which they operate healthy, too. Big Retail’s Online Checkout Conversions. And, that’s not all the good news. Speaking of Birchbox ….

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APRIL 25, 2017

When it comes to chatbots, the available outlets for them reside in the cloud, resulting in text-based bots and voice-activated bots like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google’s Home. Within the past year alone, Facebook has been a major player in slowly working its way to improve the way businesses think about chatbots.

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JULY 5, 2017

With this addition, each of the Frightful Five will have its own voice-controlled speaker: Amazon with its Echo family of devices; Google with the Home speaker; Apple with its new HomePod; Microsoft with the Cortana-powered Invoke speaker; and now, Alibaba, with its as-yet unnamed voice assistant and device. It is unlikely to reach the U.S.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. Mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Android Pay are also accepted. The value of the online pizza delivery industry alone is already $7 billion.

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MAY 29, 2018

The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon. The two collaborated on a payments solution designed to enable MegaFon subscribers to make purchases or pay bills via their smartphone using Apple Pay or Samsung Pay and a linked virtual Mastercard.

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JULY 30, 2018

That is unless the shopper is online, in which case they might find themselves picking through 100,000 options. Walmart wants to develop a stronger name for itself as a lifestyle brand, and a richer reputation for having a social media presence. Apple isn’t eBay’s only new friendship of the week.

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APRIL 19, 2019

As noted in this space this past week, SCA has goals that are laudable by any measure, as the SCA requirement seeks to reduce fraud and make online card-not-present (CNP) transactions more secure. That’s important in a world where commerce is increasingly moving online. The free service could be offered through the Echo speakers.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Think of the Apple iPhone, and thoughts are likely to turn to matters involving social media, selfies, family photos, mobile commerce and even payments. The alleged theft ring operated in 34 states, but it remains unclear how many phones and legitimate customers were involved or impacted. Targeting Dead People.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Amazon and Apple have both launched their own virtual assistants. Looking ahead.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

What would one say about a computer geek who said he could protect their online identity , and while doing do would make a bold move against the likes of Facebook and Google ? Technology that enables consumers to control their data as they shop, pay and perform other tasks online. As consumers become more cautious — cynical?

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Loyalty, she noted, is earned through a careful continuum of brand positioning and ultimately generating an emotional response among consumers whether they are shopping in store on online. As Mahoney noted, the pandemic has transformed the way businesses operate and reach their consumer.

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MARCH 25, 2019

We started to really think about how [we] not only simplify integration and onboarding, but [how to] better manage operations on an ongoing basis,” he said. “We Shoppers who prefer to use Google Pay will be able to do so within the eBay app, mobile website and desktop site, regardless of operating system or device.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are doubling down on data security. Facebook, Apple, and Google are prioritizing security to share data with advertisers. Facebook and Google track users online and sell that data to advertisers. Apple has hinted at growing its contextual advertising business.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facebook reported on their website that their teams have made progress: They removed 837 million pieces of spam in Q1 2018 before anyone reported it, disabled 583 million fake accounts “within minutes” of going online and removed 24 million inappropriate pictures related to violence and nudity. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The total combined value of the Frightful Five — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — is indeed a frightful amount, most recently tallied at $3.3 It can be difficult for grocers to profit from online sales of inexpensive retail products, and the marketplace’s 15 percent seller fee wasn’t helping. The company saw $10.3

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

has evolved over the years from operations oversight to overseeing operations and innovation. But now his current role is to focus entirely on developing forward-looking financial retail offerings, including mobile and online banking, card technologies and other emerging channels and devices. “We Alex Jimenez, Rockland Trust Co.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

In addition to its vending machines, Beverly Hills Caviar also sells caviar online. When she took over her family’s company, she decided to modernize the business by selling caviar online in 2001. People who [had] never had caviar in their life [before] ended up buying it from the machine, filming it and sharing it on social media.”.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. How can community banks grow their share of the online market, while at the same time draw the younger generation to the branch? Conservative bankers might dismiss social media. Don’t. Give young people a voice.

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