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How Payment Platforms Connect Merchants With Augmented Reality

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To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. The firm chose a Kenyan brand, Huddah Cosmetics , as the first social commerce merchant on its Mula service to roll out the platform.

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How Collectives Aim To Make Cities Into Blockchain Centers

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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. Approximately 140 firms that are involved in blockchain technology and crypto assets have a presence in Austin, Harris said.

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How To Improve Uninsured Deposit Performance

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Apply further rising rates, social media amplification of rates or risk, general sensitivity to safety, greater competition, or a credit shock to the deposit holding institution. Non-interest-bearing accounts, of course, have much longer average lives, while CDs have much shorter average lives.

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Snap Launches Partner Program To Help Brands Create AR Lenses

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Snap plans to make the program available in more regions in the coming weeks, with the aim of having more than 100 creators over the course of the coming months. Snap said the Lens Creative Partners program has more than 30 certified creators, with the largest number residing in the U.S. and followed by the U.K., Canada and Australia.

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Watching Risk, And Reputation, With An Eye On Receivables

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Enough data, continued Frank, comes courtesy of the CFPB, liens, or even social media that SMBs can gain a sense of risk unfolding in real time, across 38 different metrics. There are, of course, uses for AR Surveillance that can cross beyond wariness into more sanguine territory.

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China’s Tech Stocks (And FinTech) Offer Hints Of Nostalgia

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Not the companies that make services and speed payments and data and mine social media for marketing nuggets. . Technology has some ways to go — and until it is truly widespread in China – and not just Internet companies, but services like payments and of course banking. Apple has of course been a poster child here.

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Tastewise Brings Data To Dining

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Social media, according to the brand, is the secret sauce ingredient that makes its platform so successful — and the uncountably large number of food pics snapped by avid Instagram and Facebook users worldwide. This ensures the best culinary experience and, of course, more Instagrammable food moments.”.

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