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Will Our Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media Ever Break?

PYMNTS

consumers and social media. Data breaches, marketing so targeted and specific that it can feel creepy, lack of privacy and regrets over wasted time – people complain constantly about how social media causes or enables all of that. Yet those same people find it hard to quit the Facebook, Twitter and social media platforms.

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Will Our Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media Ever Break?

PYMNTS

consumers and social media. Data breaches, marketing so targeted and specific that it can feel creepy, lack of privacy and regrets over wasted time — people complain constantly about how social media causes or enables all that. Yet those same people find it hard to quit the Facebook, Twitter and social media platforms.

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Is Social Media Key to Hitting the Trillions for (Fin)Tech Companies?

Bank Innovation

Analyst Michael Markowski seems to think so, citing the technology giant’s recent acquisition of professional social media site LinkedIn as the boost that pushed Microsoft into the race. Could Microsoft be the first technology company to earn a one trillion market value?

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Social Media Lures Credit Card Giants – And Their Advertising Spend

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On social media – specifically, on Facebook. Witness the announcement last month by tech giant Apple that it was getting into the credit card game with both plastic and virtual offerings, and the news this past week that PayPal might offer credit cards, too. (As and American Express Co.

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Social Media As The ?Ticket? For Contextual Commerce

PYMNTS

Sports fans can’t get enough of their favorite players and teams: Their social media accounts oftentimes have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. They sold out in 23 minutes — proof that social media channels can be successful mediums for consumer purchases. How does social media play in?

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Apple Card’s gender-bias claims look familiar to old-school banks

Bank Innovation

Social media postings in recent days by a tech entrepreneur […]. pitches its new card as a model of simplicity and transparency, upending everything consumers think about credit cards. But for the card’s overseers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,

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Apple Pay Trending Up as Target, Other Retailers Add Payment Option

Bank Innovation

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. But […].

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