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Facebook Rolls Out Curated News Feature

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News rolled out for a portion of Facebook users in the United States, and is accessible from a shortcut at the bottom of the platform’s mobile app. Zuckerberg believes Facebook News can reach 20 to 30 million people in the next few years.

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Retail Pulse: Kohl’s To Curate Brands With Facebook; Domino’s Rolls Out eBike Tie-Up

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming up with social media platforms to curate labels for their stores and their websites. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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Why Health And Fitness Are Driving More Retail Change

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In addition, data and tech are at such a point that offering digital and mobile alternatives, and options for fitness-related classes, can be done in a seamless way — a way that includes a seamless payments experience, too. Innovation is also taking place within retail brick-and-mortar pharmacies.

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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A new report shows that 70 percent of Americans use their mobile devices and restaurant apps at some point during the dining journey. Using a laptop or mobile phone, anyone, anywhere, is just a few clicks away from having their favorite meal delivered to wherever they happen to be. But the reviews for dining apps aren’t so clean.

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Millennial’s Matter to Bank Marketing

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First, know this: The younger generation has embraced mobile banking more warmly than mobile phones. According to Bankrate.com , people ages 18-29 make up 44 percent of mobile bankers, but make up only 22 percent of mobile phone users. Conservative bankers might dismiss social media. Don’t.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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The bot can be accessed via chat, mobile, email, and other channels. ^SR We enable FIs to record everything that goes on with the customers transactions on mobile, online, social and let the FI validate interactions on that site. Why shouldn’t all those VCs have a mobile app? Qumram – @QumramAG – [link].

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $205 million Week Ending June 18

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HQ: Houston, Texas. Mobile alt-credit . Mobile wallet APIs. Mobile personal finance manager . Tags: PFM, savings accounts, mobile, Citibank (investor), Lloyds (investor). Investor network. Latest round: $5 million Series B. Total raised: $9.4 Source: Crunchbase. HQ: San Francisco, California. Source: FT Partners.