Bussman Advisory

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Sequoia Capital warns today’s downturn is worse than 2000 and 2008. Sequoia Capital warns today’s downturn is worse than 2000 and 2008. Will the metaverse’s impact on digital marketing be equivalent to social media? More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Even after some slow starts from products like Facebook’s Libra, social payments, which constitute any transaction that occurs on a big tech or social platform, have taken hold. These findings point to security as a key differentiator for community banks in the realm of social payments. DJ Seeterlin, Chesapeake Bank.

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JULY 17, 2019

Financial experts are predicting Capital One’s second-quarter earnings will fall below expectations, despite their moderate success in the first quarter. One glaring expense was a significant increase in social media ad spending in the company’s efforts to find and attract new customers. Last year, Capital One spent $18.6

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Regulatory filings show that Facebook now has control over more than three-quarters of the company. Two of Scape’s previous venture capital representatives have now been replaced by Facebook executives on the company’s board, according to documents. companies in a way some could call anti-competitive. Since the U.K.

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JULY 30, 2019

The security breach at Capital One that exposed 100 million credit card applications and thousands of bank accounts and Social Security numbers is rapidly seeing repercussions. . Also on Tuesday, a man affected by the Capital One breach filed a lawsuit against the firm. Reuters reported. and 6 million in Canada.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Grab said it has closed on a loan facility, while Getir announced on social media that it has come to London. Plus, European Union legislators have told four tech companies that they are willing to delay a potential hearing past its initially scheduled date. London, we’ve arrived!

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Following 48 hours of media attention for his contentious comments about social media “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” the Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook exec discussed his take on stage Wednesday at CB Insights’ A-ha! Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t backing down. conference.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

IRL , or In Real Life, the social calendar startup created to help users meet over shared experiences, announced a $16 million Series B funding round on Tuesday (Sept. The San Francisco-based company said the infusion of new cash will be used to reinvent its web product and expand the platform overseas. .

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

28, the day the new menu takes effect, the company announced in a press release. Burger King's use of marketing efforts that capitalize on a keen sense of social media has won the Miami-based company kudos. The big question now becomes, what to get?”.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The company already has scale, having integrated with 15,000 financial institutions in Canada and the United States and recently made forays into Ireland and Spain. Separately, in a deal tied to a “blank check” company, Far Point said it had struck a $2.6 Pinterest: Pinned as the third largest social media platform in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 31, 2019

GAC Group, the state-owned Chinese car company, announced Thursday (Jan. 31) that it is teaming up with Tencent , the internet and gaming company, to create a mobility company. At the time, GAC said it wanted to access Tencent ‘s knowledge in digital payments, social media, Big Data and AI.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee. These companies are using partnerships with video streaming services to set themselves apart from rivals while adding unique incentives to their product assortments.

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APRIL 7, 2017

Tencent, the Chinese tech giant, has passed Wells Fargo to become the world’s tenth most valuable public company. While Tencent doesn’t do much business outside of China, it does have a lock on social media in the country. Tencent’s WeChat is the biggest social network in China, with 889 million monthly average users.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While FOMO as a concept predates social media, feelings associated with it have grown more intense with the rise of these platforms. Lately, the hottest trend in communications and marketing is TikTok, the fastest-growing social media network in the world.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Snap , parent of social media company Snapchat , has bought New York City-based StreetCred , which is working on a platform for location data, according to a report from Business Blockchain HQ. StreetCred previously raised around $1 million in seed funding from Bowery Capital and Notation Capital.

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JULY 13, 2020

That isn’t likely to be a lone incident; as the industry gains more recognition, companies will need more legal representation, experts told Cointelgraph. Celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled backed the project on social media. And, the U.S.

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Bussman Advisory

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

billion into the sector Revolut under pressure over internal audit FTX Ventures plans to take 30% stake in Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. billion into the sector Revolut under pressure over internal audit FTX Ventures plans to take 30% stake in Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. Subscribe now to our weekly newsletter.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Social media company Facebook is going to buy a stake in Meesho, an Indian eCommerce startup that connects people re-selling a variety of items with potential buyers on other platforms, according to a report from Reuters. Meesho reportedly was founded in 2015 has raised some $65 million in capital so far.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but gives them access to other digital and mobile services. Social Media Aspect.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

The chaos resulted in a severe drubbing for some of the larger Wall Street hedge funds, including Melvin Capital , which took a hit of 53 percent after retail investors drove up stocks that it had bet against. Melvin Capital did receive an infusion of fresh cash from investors in the final days of January.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

After announcing a test of shoppable Reels in October, the company has formalized the effort with a global shoppable video rollout. In fact, this isn’t the first time that Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, has attempted to launch a TikTok alternative. It’s also a play to capture TikTok’s Gen Z and millennial audience. percent. “So

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Canadian company works in cloud services for the financial sector with more than 1,000 credit unions, banks, businesses and regulatory agencies. Bridgetown Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), is reportedly mulling a deal with Tokopedia, the Indonesian online shopping company.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. This belief is based on “the Company’s operating plan, that current working capital and expected continued inventory and capital expenditure financing is sufficient to fund operations and satisfy the Company’s obligations.”.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

On Wednesday, shares of the company began trading up 183 percent from its IPO price, which is the second-biggest gain this year on the U.S. exchange for a company raising at least $100 million, according to Bloomberg’s data. Analysts had only expected the company to make $512 million.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. The company raised $350 million in 2018 for startups working on the blockchain technology underpinning digital coins.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 17, 2023

Eight years ago, when the bank’s CEO, Greg Becker, personally pressed Congress to exempt SVB from post-2008 financial reform rules, he cited its “low risk profile” and role supporting “job-creating companies in the innovation economy”. Continue reading.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX closed a $74 million funding round led by Intel Capital that will be used to advance cyberattack detection and remediation, VentureBeat reported on Thursday (Feb. Existing investors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital also participated in the funding round.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Taking a Hard Line Against Alleged Counterfeits .

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MAY 8, 2019

Factom , whose website describes the firm as a “blockchain innovations company,” is likely the oldest such company in the region and is five years old this month, according to Harris. It also has crypto investment funds such as Multicoin Capital and Adamant Capital.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Japan-based business card management service Sansan has announced news of fresh venture capital in support of its solution which helps professionals with business information management and networking. While not a social media network, Sansan does promote connectivity between businesses and professionals.

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MAY 6, 2020

It also works with smaller operations, including social media influencers. The round was backed by France’s GeoPost SA and ride-hailing company Grab. Other backers included Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group and Monk’s Hill Ventures. That round was led by Sequoia India and Alpha JWC Ventures.

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MARCH 20, 2020

India is making a move to tighten controls on big tech companies like Amazon and require them to turn over data and other requested information in a timely manner, Reuters reported on Friday (March 20), citing sources. The talks about online shopping data control is a “complex subject,” a senior trade ministry official told Reuters.

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APRIL 8, 2020

The website appeared along with a press release to reporters earlier this week, promising the digital equivalent of a mall food court and inferring an association with Kalanick’s business in various social media posts and press releases.

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JUNE 17, 2019

There’s even talk that some employees of the social media giant will be able to get their salaries in the new cryptocurrency. Facebook will probably release a white paper on June 18 with an explanation of the social media giant’s plans for its crypto, or token.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Facebook has connected with Sequoia Capital India’s Surge accelerator initiative to roll out the fourth version of the VC Brand Incubator program in India, Deal Street Asia reported. a baby care startup based in Delhi, are some of the companies that have participated in past incubator programs. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Capital One announced that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, as well as thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers. Fairbank, Capital One’s chairman and chief executive, said in a press release. “I

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MARCH 1, 2019

The social media giant has even spoken with crypto exchanges about selling the coin to consumers, telling them that it hopes to have a product out in the first half of the year. It’s pretty much the most fascinating thing happening in crypto right now,” said Eric Meltzer, co-founder of venture capital firm Primitive Ventures.

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