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Banks Must Up Their Social Media Game to Connect with Digital Natives

Gonzobanker

Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. Consider that the typical user spends about 2.5 hours per day on social media. Demographically, half of the U.S.

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Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

PYMNTS

Makeup marketplaces like NakedPoppy, for one, are using AI-enabled personalization tools to match their customers to the right products, simplifying the user experience. This is one of the ways that platforms are working with AI tools to differentiate themselves from their competition.

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Facebook’s Oculus To Integrate With Social Platform

PYMNTS

Fitzgerald explained that Oculus users will soon be able to use their Facebook logins to gain access to their headsets, as well as enjoy more social features, including direct-posting to the social media site. We originally launched Oculus for Business at OC4.

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Feelter Sources, Curates Social Sentiment For Brands

PYMNTS

Social media is fast becoming a significant influence on the path to purchase. Businesses are taking notice and looking for ways to source crowd insights, sentiment and authentic user experiences to leverage the sway social content has over prospective buyers. Feelter scores each relevant social media post.

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Stopping Fraudsters From Taking The Travel Industry For An $11B Ride

PYMNTS

Many are turning to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other advanced learning solutions to prevent and detect breaches before they can cause large-scale problems, but bad actors are using the same set of tools to sidestep authentication processes or impersonate legitimate customers.

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

PYMNTS

Between Venmo’s services and new competitors like Zelle arriving on the scene, consumers have plenty of tools and solutions at their fingertips to help them send money requests to friends and families to split expenses. Users can also select an emoticon to indicate the purpose of the request.

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Building (or rebuilding) your clientele in today’s economy

FirstInternet

Generate a fast, simple user experience. Build a social presence: Nowadays, most businesses can be found on social media. Well, social media is a great, free tool that can help build brand awareness and develop new relationships. Say you own a flower boutique. Is the site simple to navigate?