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12 Startups Showed Their Latest and Greatest at INV Fintech Demo Day

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EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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Facebook Tests Wearable ‘Brain-Reading’ Device

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The social media giant announced the program in 2017. “We The company has been working to make the technology a reality through a partnership between Facebook Reality Labs, a division that studies long-term tech products and hardware, and researchers from the University of California , San Francisco, according to CNBC.

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Is $1,000 Enough To Leave Facebook for a Year? (And Does it Even Matter?)

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You can be sure that one area of regression involves social media. New research, in fact, supports that idea — specifically, the high value that consumers attach to Facebook , and the high cost it would take to make them leave the social media platform. But that doesn’t mean consumers plan to leave Facebook anytime soon.

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Pixlee Lets Retailers Market Using Real Customers’ Photos

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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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Checkout.com Buys Australian Startup Pin Payments

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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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Facebook To Release New Streaming Device

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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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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

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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.