PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Across the European Union (EU), technology providers and social media platforms are increasingly playing a bigger role in the Open Banking ecosystem. At the same time, however, many players, like Facebook and Google , are squaring off against regulators that are looking at their data and payment policies with more scrutiny.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their muscle behind connecting content to commerce three years ago, the potential for social shopping has been rich – but the results have fallen short of expectations. percent from the prior year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

It’s easy to imagine the appeal: Transferring loyalty program data from one grocer to another, moving image data from a social media site to an online photo-printing service, retaining access to music playlists after leaving a website with weak privacy protections or other flaws. Data Control. DTP Development.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . The pandemic has helped drive AR innovation , especially in the cosmetics and automotive industries. 22) press release. Both categories have expanded use of the technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. eBay Drafts Google Pay. Instagram and PayPal Pair Up for Instacommerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The CB Insights Patent Search Engine surfaced two new patents this week that prove Google and Microsoft are eager to inject quantitative tech into the “Influencer Economy.” In addition, this identification could ultimately help Google predict what content may go viral. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce. Habibi asked.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Consumers are waking up to the fact that all those free online and mobile services — email and social media among them — take in trade personal data that is chopped, diced, analyzed, bundled and sold to numerous third parties. That effort is starting to involve Google in a big way. That’s just Google’s scale.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Facebook Bid Against Google in Attempt to Acquire Fitbit. The social media company made multiple bids for Fitbit in October, with a final offer of $7.30 The firm is said to have its eye on new companies in emerging markets that focus on online financing and payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Representatives from Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google are scheduled to appear before the House Antitrust Subcommittee. The subcommittee revealed that it would “examine the impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship.”. We are here to help.”.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

JULY 6, 2016

Back in 2014, Stripe confirmed that it was working with Facebook on a “Buy” button for the social media giant. Whatever happened to the “Buy with Facebook” button?

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

Creating strong passwords is a great first step to securing your data and maintaining your privacy online. Depending on the product you use, it can also protect your privacy, prevent you from visiting unsafe websites, help you to locate a lost device, and provide secure online storage. Let’s get started! Create a Secure Password.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

But half had also purchased something online in that same time, showing that the way people shop is shifting. Only 26 percent said they would trust Google to enable new IoT payments methods, and Apple and Microsoft fared even worse. Nearly 80 percent of respondents had made a purchase in a physical store within the last week.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels — and online culture — to expand revenue and its brand profile, and make up for declining wholesale sales. In their newest collaboration, Google and Levi’s recently announced versions of the Levi’s Trucker Jacket that are Jacquard-enabled. Levi Strauss & Co.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Since the dawn of the internet in the mid-90s, there have been some genius ideas and some completely innovative business models. We don’t search, we Google. New companies now aim to be used as a verb by creating an innovative way to buy goods – such as: “I floated it.”. We don’t shop at Amazon , we one-click.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The PYMNTS 2018 Remote Payments Report found that 28 percent of all consumers now own voice-activated devices such as Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speakers. Consumers are not limiting their voice-based searches to just home-integrated systems like Amazon Echo or Google Home, either. Voice Adoption Hurdles .

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. They also had resumes that included stints at a veritable catalog of tech headliners, including Twitter, Google, YouTube, Quora and Postmates (to name a few). A Better Solution Than Google.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A Slice Of Innovation. We know that delivery is all about convenience, and Domino’s Hotspots are an innovation that is all about flexible delivery options for customers.”. In terms of ordering, the pizza chain said that Domino’s Hotspots are an online-only option for prepaid orders made on dominos.com and in mobile apps.

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PYMNTS

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. Through Slice, consumers can order through a pizzeria’s page on the Slice platform — or through Google or Facebook. A Pizza Button.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

To provide men’s personal care items that feel like premium brands at accessible price points, eCommerce innovators are building product lines through the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model. It built and launched a website while disabling the cart and running social media campaigns all over the Midwest.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

And, despite reporting on July 12 that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had reached an agreement to fine Facebook $5 billion, shares in the social media company were up $3.84 Facebook was grilled about Libra , while there was a separate panel on Google and censorship. and closed at $204.87. Trackers/Reports.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

In fact, early evidence suggests that changes in cyber threats and online ad buying are already taking place in the weeks since the GDPR became official. Along with that will come evidence of innovation tied to the changes brought about by the privacy regime — for instance, revisions to marketing budgets or new programs.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are doubling down on data security. However, Facebook and Amazon are not the only Big Tech companies with a need to innovate in data security. Using CB Insights’ patent analytics, we mined FAMGA’s patent application activity for data security innovations.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2017

While Credit Karma (still) remained the top finance app for both the iOS and Google Play charts today, the TurboTax Tax Return app is not far behind. The TurboTax app is currently ranked second on the Google Play charts and third for Read More. It turns out taxes were popular this week.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2017

News this past week that Wendy’s had engaged in some back and forth with Hardee’s, in which the former was widely perceived to roast the latter, begs the question, what is social media for, when the social is full of snark and the media belongs to an entity, a place, trying to craft and assume a persona?

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NCR

MARCH 5, 2018

He recently told the Economist that efforts by the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google to move more into the financial services market will be one of the biggest threats to the established banking sector. Being able to integrate customer data with innovative new digital services will also be essential.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2016

Credit Karma edged out Chase Mobile and Bank of America, which claimed second and third, for the top slot on Google Play. The favorites mostly remain in the top slots for App Annie’s top finance apps this week. The gold medal (sorry, couldn’t resist) on iOS went to micro-investing app Stash Invest, Read More.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The analysis revealed the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant is rapidly increasing headcount to strengthen its specialized product and product innovation teams. Get this data driven report on the patent activity for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and more top tech companies. Top Tech Patent Data.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Long before the Simples, GoBanks, Movens or Hello Banks of the world sought to capitalize on the shift in consumer behavior, there was mBank – serving customers where they want, when they want and through an innovative direct approach that, in its day, was one of the first of its kind. Advanced search functionality inspired by Google.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When we look at Canada, Canadians are going to digital at a much more [rapid] rate than many of the other developed countries in the world, which makes it imperative that SMBs have that online presence, and are able to make those multichannel desires of Canadians. Today (Oct.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. It’s why I said then that Google Search and Amazon and platforms like them — not Facebook — are among the new power brokers in our world.

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Banking 2020

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But look at it this way: The unending parade of social media channels and mobile apps, accompanied by the widespread public adoption of each new innovation as it arrives, gives us more information about each customer than ever before. Insights branch consumer customer customer service local social media'

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