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MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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APRIL 17, 2018

District Judge James Donato in San Francisco ruled that the suit could proceed. The class will consist of Facebook users in Illinois for whom the social media site created and stored facial recognition algorithms after June 7, 2011, Donato ruled. Earlier this year, U.S.

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MAY 7, 2020

With Square Online Checkout, the San Francisco mobile payment company hopes to capitalize on this shift by offering companies what it claims is an easier way to accept online card payments. It will work on any website, social media profile, instant messaging app and SMS (text messaging), Square said.

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MARCH 16, 2016

According to the digital retailer, the firm made the expansion as a result of shoppers’ social media behavior and feedback. ModCloth says the decision was inspired in part by shoppers’ behavior on social media. The expansion also follows staffing upgrades in the San Francisco based fashion startup.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

As Pinterest wagered on eCommerce, the social media platform’s revenue surpassed the $1 billion threshold last year. The San Francisco-based company is looking to roll out a verified merchants program that would first focus on fashion and home décor. Pinterest foresees revenue clocking in at roughly $1.52

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APRIL 8, 2020

The San Francisco-based company closed on Wednesday (April 8) at $16.83 It was a very different world just a few months ago when the social media platform’s revenue surpassed the $1 billion threshold after a strong holiday season. That’s up from analyst predictions of $267 million in revenues. per share, up 11.75

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wells Fargo customers nationwide are experiencing technical difficulty accessing the San Francisco-based bank’s online and mobile banking services.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of video service that uses a person’s face to play short clips, according to a report by TechCrunch. AI Factory has offices in Ukraine, and also in San Francisco.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of video service that uses a person’s face to play short clips, according to a report by TechCrunch. AI Factory has offices in Ukraine, and also in San Francisco.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Starting Monday (June 1), users of the San Francisco-based image sharing social media service can tap the camera in the search bar and snap or upload a photo to see the “Shop” tab with similar products. Pinterest has found what they say is a better way to shop via its website: with a camera.

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JULY 31, 2019

Facebook has reached out to Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney and Amazon about putting their services on a brand new streaming device the social media company is planning on releasing, according to reports. The social media giant announced the program in 2017. “We

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For 2020, the company will aim to attract customers in three new ways: a wine-of-the-month club, more events at wineries and an increase of paid social media. Bergsund likes to tell the story of a panicked customer from San Francisco who called just two weeks ago. Bergsund’s goal is to grow that to 10 -15 percent.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. San Francisco, California. The social media giant said in August that it had more than 20,600 employees. Chicago, Illinois.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Other stores for a mix of in-house brands are set to move into Westfield World Trade Center, San Francisco Centre, and Garden State Plaza, among other places. It has website tabs for picks from fashion and social media influencers as well as sustainably sourced products.

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MAY 26, 2020

Checkout.com faces competition from Stripe, a San Francisco technology company that allows businesses to make and receive payments over the internet, and Adyen, a Dutch payment company that provides businesses a way to accept eCommerce, mobile and point-of-sale payments.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The news came on the same day that the San Francisco-based scooter-sharing company launched a pilot program in Tacoma, Washington, and less than one month after a 24-year-old Dallas, Texas man fell off the scooter he was riding and died from blunt force injuries to his head. Scooter Accident. s DuPont neighborhood.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Alternatively, they can enter a more specific request into the platform — for example, they can ask for a one-way trip from New York to San Francisco on a particular date. These consumers use social media heavily and are chat app users. Social Media.

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MAY 16, 2018

At least one thing is clear about Facebook ’s new interest in blockchain: It will help the social media giant keep up with the Joneses. According to Facebook observers this week, a natural place to test such payments would be the social media company’s Messenger and WhatsApp tools. “Could it be? Yes, longer term.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Google revealed its latest plans for the web at the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco on Monday (Nov. 11), including offering its users instantaneous experiences. Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, said the company wants to “make loading disappear, for all our users,” according to VentureBeat.

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JUNE 14, 2017

San Francisco chef Anthony Strong launches his new restaurant, Young Fava, today, June 14. Strong believes his ghost restaurant can succeed where others failed (see: Maple, Sprig) because of his 11 years of experience in the San Francisco restaurant market. It doesn’t have a dining room.

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APRIL 29, 2016

Winning teams will then have their solutions showcased in Visa innovation centers across the globe, including Dubai, Miami, San Francisco and Singapore.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

German social media platform Knuddels.de , for instance, was docked €20,000 ($22,769 USD) over a data breach that reportedly exposed the personally identifying information (PII) of more than 33,000 users, including email addresses and passwords, according to a statement from the company. Around The PSD2 World. million ($22.2

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JULY 27, 2018

Twitter executives warned that monthly active users have been cut by about three million as the social media platform moved to purge spam and dormant accounts, curb abuse on the system and comply with new privacy regulations.

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AUGUST 31, 2019

The annual event, created by Larry Harvey and Jerry James in 1986, is now an international draw for visual artists, social media influencers, tech billionaires, independent thinkers and party animals of all stripes. But at least one firm in San Francisco is encouraging its employees to go.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 17, 2019

IBM will be hosting IBM Think 2019 from February 12-15 this year at a new location in San Francisco, CA. Also follow the social media platforms to stay informed with the latest updates : . Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure. IBMFintech Twitter.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The store will feature an experiential area where visitors can take photos to share on social media, showing that toy stores are becoming destinations as well as places to shop. The store, called Camp, will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. In Other Brick and Mortar News.

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JULY 3, 2018

In a 4-3 decision on Monday (July 1), the California Supreme Court ruled that Yelp is not responsible for a one-star review left on its site about San Francisco lawyer Dawn Hassell. The case could also influence how much responsibility third-party platforms have when consumers complain about goods and services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Qumram launched a new solution designed to record end-to-end social media interactions via WhatsApp in a fully-compliant manner. “We are excited to reveal this extension to Qumram’s fully-compliant social media recording suite,” Qumram CEO Patrick Barnert said.

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JULY 27, 2018

Twitter shares fell sharply during trading early Friday morning, after the social media company warned that the number of monthly active users (MAUs) would decline amid efforts to purge dormant accounts, improve the health of the platform and comply with new privacy regulations.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

One early post shows “San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Marquise Goodwin scoring a touchdown” and had gained at least 2 million “hearts.” Not only that, but “the transitory nature of social media and its effect on the collective U.S. It was the third-most downloaded app in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The pop-up shop will be located in The Market @ Macy’s in New York City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, now through early February.

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APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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MAY 6, 2019

Barring some sort of apocalyptic event, most sources are so sure it is coming that the web has been aglow with a thousand think pieces about how the coming Uber IPO and all the money it will carry in its wake is likely to remake San Francisco. to protest what they view as unfair employment conditions. Facebook $1 Billion Crypto Plan.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

And while short shorts for men might not seem like the most obvious place to build, the San Francisco firm is confident it makes the “raddest shorts in the Unites States.” “It’s really important to treat the customers like friends,” said Rainer Castillo, founder of Chubbies, in a presentation at eTail West. “We

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Abrigo

MAY 14, 2015

A Yelp search for accountants in San Francisco turns up four pages of opinions on independent accountants and CPAs, as well as small and large firms. Just as you may be leveraging other social media platforms , it’s equally as important to monitor your online reputation.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

And judging from the continuing proliferation of videos on social media, the ability for retailers to enforce even the minimum safety standards of mask-wearing is risky business for employees. Example: The RealReal. The company started out with an innovative business model.

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