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JANUARY 1, 2021

Starting with some of the most recent changes — and a sign of what’s to come — earlier in the month, the European Commission offered up its initial draft of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. As reported in this space , the DSA and DMA cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Social media platforms are infested with phonies, and not just your best friend’s irritating co-worker (although he totally is). This is about the fact that fake identities comprise 25 percent of new social media accounts created every day, and that 53 percent of all social media logins are fraudulent , according to a recent study.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Digital Services Act is forecast to revamp content management on platforms such as Facebook and Google. The European Commission has rolled out high-profile probes into firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon over worries that their market supremacy is negatively impacting competition.

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APRIL 17, 2020

At the end of March, Gartner reported that 65 percent of chief marketing officers (CMOs) surveyed were planning to cut marketing budgets as a result of business disruptions from the coronavirus. But, “At the same time, some advertisers that had pulled out have begun to push money back into the TV ad market,” the report said. “We

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MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Pinterest has named its first-ever chief operating officer, hiring former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher. According to CNBC, the role was similar to the one Sheryl Sandberg had at Google before leaving for Facebook. In July, Pinterest announced the hiring of two former Google executives.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. As a combined organization, we will bring the most modern solutions targeted at the highest-growth markets. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. Perhaps a better, more specific question is this: Even with Google ’s search engine dominance (a dominance that seems as currently eternal as, say, the power of the British Navy in the late 19 th century), can any challenger make a significant push to gain ground?

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AUGUST 23, 2019

An Indian court has ruled that people in the country can’t link Aadhaar (unique identification) or any other government-issued identification with their social media accounts, according to reports. . India’s digital payments market is expected to hit $1 trillion by 2023, according to a report by Credit Suisse Group AG.

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2020

He also noted that Amazon has invested in excess of $10 billion in “COVID-19 related operating costs” since the pandemic began. State Attorneys General Sue Google Over ‘Exclusionary Tactics’. The executive said that the retailer will keep taking on the extra expenses without increasing charges until June 1, 2021. In October, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will decide on Wednesday (Dec. The CMA is very interested in tech giants extending their tentacles into other markets,” Alan Davis, a competition lawyer at Pinsent Masons in London, told Bloomberg. having active investigations into Google, Facebook and Amazon.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The European Commission told Amazon of its “preliminary view that it has breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in online retail markets,” according to the statement. India’s Antitrust Watchdog Opens Google Antitrust Case.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. Andromeda was one of the oldest malwares on the market.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. Google parent Alphabet Inc. Marketing on sites such as Rakuten and TikTok is forecasted to rise 18.3

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JUNE 16, 2016

The myriad social media platform out there — Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. — all have some variation of a common problem: Lots of people using their services all the time and not paying a red cent since the first rule of building a social media platform is simply accepting that users won’t pay to use it.

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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. DTP Development.

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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 The Media/Commerce Connection. Microsoft doesn’t have the App Store or Google Play.

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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. Google has lost employees and also faces regulation. Amazon and Google are taking PR hits from the President. Google & Amazon Look To Secure Privacy in The Smart Home.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

That means digitizing all aspects of their businesses from marketing to all facets of daily operations, from consumer-facing outreach to payments in the back office in order to stay connected to consumers and communities. Fine-Tuning Marketing And Reinventing The ‘Four Ps’ . If we have a product or service, we’re marketers.”.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

After searching Google for meal kits that would serve such a need and not finding a solution, she decided to start her Canada-based company. Presto Eats operates on a direct-to-consumer (D2C) model, and its products are sent on a weekly delivery schedule. The Market. The Service.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This will help us continue to keep tech markets open and competitive, for the benefit of consumers.”. It also wants to examine how the smaller companies operated post-acquisition. The FTC announced in 2019 that it was putting together a task force to look into tech industry antitrust violations.

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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. South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has approved blockchain operator ICONLOOP’s my-ID system to protect data collected for digital identities.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Paytm reportedly had the most Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in January in India, Nets is teaming up with payment service provider Przelewy24 for a strategic alliance to serve the market in Poland, and Sri Lanka ’s Mobitel introduced mCashQR to its mobile app.

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JUNE 21, 2019

PayPal, Google Give OCC’s Bank Charter the Cold Shoulder. MoneyGram has tapped into foreign exchange markets for settlements in the past. By changing to the XRP digital currency, however, it forecasts lower operating costs along with the value of working capital it needs. Ripple Drops $50M Into MoneyGram.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Beloved by younger millennials and up-and-coming Generation Z members, Snapchat is the little social media engine that could in an era when it seemed the social media die had all been cast (and where Facebook won most of the rolls). That just good old-fashioned operational costs. The firm torched through $1.1

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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. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Source: Think with Google.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

SoulCycle had planned an initial public offering, but in May 2018 withdrew it because of what the company said was unfavorable market conditions. It does, however, face a tepid market where consumers no longer have to go to a studio and workouts are available on-demand. The company’s net loss stood at $49.8

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JANUARY 24, 2018

When consumers do use a product, they can communicate with the app directly or through voice — through Amazon Alexa or Google Home — to update their pantry inventory. The company, which has operations in Silicon Valley and India, currently has seven employees. It plans to hire 12 to 14 people across technical and marketing domains.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This change could fundamentally disrupt financial marketing as we know it. Analysts say that we are still at least a year away from the blockchain revolution, but marketers should prepare themselves for industry-wide blockchain adoption. But consider how marketers felt when the Internet first became a thing, or email, or social media.

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JULY 27, 2017

Advertising revenue pushed by sky-rocketing sales of mobile video ads managed to grow at more than twice the rate reported by Google. “We are making some early investments to create episodic content,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told CNBC. analysts were looking for. Revenue came in at $9.32

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The global digital ad market is expected to be valued at $225 billion by 2020, so it is no wonder fraudsters are trying to steal a piece of the pie. San Francisco-based marketing platform Singular recently released an ad fraud-fighting tool for Android developers specifically geared toward preventing fake app installations.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. If you have an interesting podcast to share, please send it to marketing@abrigo.com. Indeed, with 2.8

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Individually, each company has a market cap greater than half a trillion dollars. One Wall Street analyst speculates Amazon plans to not only get into the pharmaceuticals market, but the professional medical device market as well. 31), along with executives from Twitter and Google. Paging Dr. Bezos! The company saw $10.3

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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. Chris Webb sure does.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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