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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised. Honorable Mention.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Hints At EU Pullout Over Data Transfers Laws; Appeal Filed Over Appleā€™s $15B Tax Bill On Ireland Operations; In-App Billing Battle Rages On

PYMNTS

With the fate of TikTok grabbing all the press, you may have missed the news that Facebook is talking about denying itself and its sister social platform Instagram to the European Union (EU) over new proposals that would stop the social media giant from transferring data on EU users back to Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

Insights on Business

Itā€™s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case. Fingers-crossed.

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

Insights on Business

Itā€™s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case. Fingers-crossed.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Keeping Ahead Of The COVID-19 Outbreak

PYMNTS

Both of the nationā€™s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals ā€” protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

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. Itā€™s time to toast the conquerors and skewer the laggards, GonzoBankers. THE BANKING AWARDS. Happy Holidays!

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success ā€” hereā€™s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). Instead, PFM tools operate according to something more like what you might call “quality of life effects.”

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