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Social Media As The ?Ticket? For Contextual Commerce

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Sports fans can’t get enough of their favorite players and teams: Their social media accounts oftentimes have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. Additionally, news that Instagram was rolling out native payments surfaced in May. But how can teams harness the eCommerce potential of these accounts? But what about Snap?

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DoorDash, Amazon Flex Not Altering Driver Payment Structures

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According to a report in The Verge , last week Instacart reversed the pay structures policy after facing backlash on social media and in the press. Citing media reports, The Verge reported that Amazon pays drivers a base pay of between $18 and $25 an hour, with some of the drivers contending that tips are added to that base pay.

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High-End Retailers Block Access To Storefronts In New York

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Stateside, however, boarded up retail locations have showed up on Los Angeles’ Rodeo Drive, Washington’s 14th Street, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and San Francisco’s Union Square. Users of social media are now putting pictures online of retail hotspots that were once busy quiet and possibly getting ready for civil unrest.

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Forever 21 Stores Hacked

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According to news from Fortune , customer payment card information was compromised at certain point of sale devices in stores when the encryption on those devices was not operating. Fashion retailer Forever 21 revealed that it has suffered a data breach at some of its stores. Earlier this year, Forever 21 partnered with mall owner GGP Inc.

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Fitness Platform Raises $5M For Online Workouts

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the Los Angeles-based alternative asset manager. million followers on social media, and Nicole Mejia, a fitness instructor with 1.3 Bloomberg News reported NEOU , the New York-based live streaming and on-demand platform for trainers, has raised $5 million in capital from investors including Ares Management Corp.,

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Five At Five: Facebook Hit By GDPR On Monthly Users

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Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Facebook, the world’s leading social media platform, reported last week that it lost about 1 million monthly active users (MAU) in Europe due to the new regulations, leaving it with 376 million. The platform has more than 2.2

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This Week In Payments: MerchantE’s Sandra Blair On Amazon’s Busy Week And The Secret To Salesforce’s Success

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It’s been another busy week in payments and commerce, as summer winds down and the world gears up for an autumn where nothing seems certain except the presence of pumpkin spice at Starbucks (and everywhere else). It’s increasingly appearing in the B2B payments space and the world of supply chain management as well.

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