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Will Our Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media Ever Break?

PYMNTS

consumers and social media. Data breaches, marketing so targeted and specific that it can feel creepy, lack of privacy and regrets over wasted time – people complain constantly about how social media causes or enables all of that. Yet those same people find it hard to quit the Facebook, Twitter and social media platforms.

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Will Our Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media Ever Break?

PYMNTS

consumers and social media. Data breaches, marketing so targeted and specific that it can feel creepy, lack of privacy and regrets over wasted time — people complain constantly about how social media causes or enables all that. Yet those same people find it hard to quit the Facebook, Twitter and social media platforms.

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Is Social Media Key to Hitting the Trillions for (Fin)Tech Companies?

Bank Innovation

Analyst Michael Markowski seems to think so, citing the technology giant’s recent acquisition of professional social media site LinkedIn as the boost that pushed Microsoft into the race. Could Microsoft be the first technology company to earn a one trillion market value?

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YouTube Continues to Dominate the Video Results in Google

Perficient

This is the second time we’ve done a study on video rankings in Google and YouTube (see the first study here ). This post covers: How YouTube videos dominate the top videos in Google’s results. The difference between YouTube’s and Google’s algorithms for ranking videos. An analysis of how the two algorithms differ.

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Proposed Social Media Law Would Let Data Flow Among Platforms

PYMNTS

A proposed law created to increase competition in the tech sector would allow users to move their data between social media platforms. In other words — by enabling portability, interoperability, and delegatability, this bill will help put consumers in the driver’s seat when it comes to how and where they use social media.”.

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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

PYMNTS

In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. The European Union (EU) has levied $126 million USD in fines in that brief time, the biggest against Google at $57 million. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. Merchants Waiting It Out.

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Google Rolls Out ‘Product Discovery Solutions For Retail’ Suite

PYMNTS

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As

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