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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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Banks Must Up Their Social Media Game to Connect with Digital Natives

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Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. hours per day on social media. Sofi has built strong engagement through its Richer Lives social media strategy and influencer Vivian, “your rich BFF.”

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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays

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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.

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce

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That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. According to VentureBeat , Google has “rolled out a series of updates to google.com/travel , its one-stop itinerary planner on the web. Contextual Commerce. I’m happily surprised.”. Travel Trends.

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What The Trendsetters Say About How We Will Pay Next Decade

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Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future.

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Is Sale Likely To Be Snapchat’s Next Move?

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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). Borrowing is an option, but an expensive one as interest rates are climbing.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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Releasing AR headsets would put the social media giant in direct competition with AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs. Zara combined AR and social media when it introduced augmented reality displays to 120 of its brick-and mortar stores worldwide in April.