PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The world’s biggest social media platforms are cracking down like never before. Into the fray steps IBM to partner with Raw Seafoods of Fall River, Massachusetts, on the blockchain-powered Food Trust mobile app. The cat-and-mouse game between law enforcement and code-abusing felons is entering a new year, and a new phase.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

According to Bloomberg , Attorneys General in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Connecticut are investigating existing allegations against the company, while New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts are looking to find any potential unknown violations. Earlier this week Racine said he believes more states will sue the social media giant.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Department of Justice announced that two Massachusetts men were arrested and charged with conducting a scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal their cryptocurrency. And the U.S.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Massachusetts’ Avidia Bank “gets social” in multiple ways to sell itself to public Blogs Social Media HowTo Community Banking.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Those needs are a viable social media to grab younger consumers and an expansion of its eCommerce capacity. Walmart is going to see a very quick rise in ad spend” if its bid does succeed, Scott Smigler , president of Massachusetts-based eCommerce marketing agency Exclusive Concepts, said in a Reuters report.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts has put the brakes on five initial coin offerings in that state. Although the firms had advertised across social media, none of them had registered to offer or sell securities. Here in the United States, tax season looms, of course, which may put additional pressure on cryptos.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. Of course, it’ll take some time to get there if we do. For now, simply exploring the feasibility of digital fiat is top of mind.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Waltham, Massachusetts-based eCommerce solutions company Yottaa has made a big splash in the commerce space in the past few years. These services can include anything from review services, social media integration and online chat services, to hi-res images and complicated JavaScript.

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MAY 30, 2018

We do that by focusing on integration between eCommerce sites, social media and marketing efforts, and the stores and boutiques we own.”. Shiseido also recently acquired Massachusetts-based artificial skin technology startup Olivo Labs and California-based personalization solution provider MATCHCo.

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MARCH 5, 2018

It’s first, second and third objectives are to monetize the content seen in a user’s News Feed through ads, which Facebook’s algorithms can target down to a gnat’s eyelash level of detail — employed college-educated males living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who like Kit Kats and have a dog. Today that’s Amazon and Google Search, among others.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

8) Deposit Impact of Social Media: SVB’s customer base and followers were highly active on Twitter and other social media properties. The more active your customer base and “friends of the bank” are on social media, the shorter you can expect your deposit duration when sentiment turns negative.

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Social Assurance

JUNE 15, 2021

Our 2021 award winner, Dean Bank made connections with many local businesses the town of Franklin, Massachusetts. One way to do this is on social media. Social media has the power to engage and inspire far beyond your customer base. They created a closed-circuit gift card program branded, “Think Franklin First.”

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FICO

MAY 19, 2022

We caught up with FICO’s “big man on campus” after his recent college tour, at which he lectured and/or met with students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Business, the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and Duke University’s Statistics Department. Follow Scott on Social Media.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Wells Fargo: The beleaguered bank does not have many champions, and perhaps least among its fans is Massachusetts Sen. The analysis from Amicus Commercial Finance shows that cash flow problems (stemming at least in part from non-payment of those invoices) leads to all sorts of problems, including paying staff. Elizabeth Warren.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Payments via social media. Tags: Payments, mobile, social, Facebook, Startup Chile (investor). There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Digital currency provider.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. And then invest in at least one nap per day as you glide through the no-work last week of December!

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). An enormous part of By Chloe’s success is that its dishes and restaurants are optimized for social media. Set to open in early 2019 in the former mill town of North Adams, Massachusetts, Loom’s menu will be based on local ingredients and historical recipes.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Company Description: The Waltham, Massachusetts, company offers Medicare Advantage plans that promise affordable, streamlined services. Its analytics program scans social media platforms for signifiers of breaking news and events. Devoted Health. Valuation: $1.8B. Total Funding: $369M. Total Funding: $569M. Valuation: $1.4B.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

ONvocal is the Massachusetts-based company behind the product seeking to transform the art of listening, and — by George — they may have done it. Through a set of various vibration patterns, the wearer can receive alerts like texts, calls, social media notifications and even a note that the Uber driver is arriving now.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

That may sound exciting, but brain tech is one area where the social media giant is playing catchup with the broader scientific community. Research on BCIs and BMIs – much of it funded by government sources – has been going on since the 1990s. (As

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

In May, Tencent opened an AI research lab in Seattle focused on speech recognition as it looks to apply AI research to its social media, online games, and cloud services. The business social graph below highlights Tencent’s US AI investments over the period; each green line represents one round of funding.

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CB Insights

APRIL 26, 2018

City Brain crunches data from cameras, sensors, social media feeds, and government data, among other things. Called the “app for everything,” it is the most popular social media application in China with 1B users. Tencent’s biggest strength is that it owns WeChat. Conclusion.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

The digital and technology revolution has powered up internet searches, social media, smartphone apps and eCommerce over the past decade to the delight of Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple, to name but a few.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

As a result, the company’s web traffic and sales conversion rates were lower than its competitors’ rates; its social media presence was limited; and its existing CRM tools failed to capture online insights to help the company better engage consumers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

According to Max Erik Tegmark, physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they also represent weaknesses that rogue actors will be able to exploit in future wars: “The more automated society gets and the more powerful the attacking AI becomes, the more devastating cyberwarfare can be.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Lifetime Achievement Award (Bank) Cambridge Savings CEO Wayne Patenaude looks to end a long and successful career at one of Massachusetts’ 10 largest banks. Oh, and along the way, OnPoint will provide an amazing $2.5 million (that’s right million) of financial donations and support to the community in 2025.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

With the social media giant facing severe backlash from regulators, politicians and consumer groups in both the U.K. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said over the weekend that her office is launching an inquiry into how Facebook data is used. Facebook’s stock tanked in trading Monday (March 20), erasing $36.7

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MARCH 19, 2018

Late last week in a blog post, Facebook revealed the incident hours ahead of the release of media reports that Cambridge Analytica, which is conservative leaning and worked for the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, got access to data and did not delete the information. It’s clear these platforms can’t police themselves,” Democratic U.S.

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