PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

If you look at the top 25 or 50 artists of any kind on almost any social media platform – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – you see that half are musicians. For Merchbar, that meant creating the experience of having a fan listen to their favorite artist on Spotify and buy their merchandise in a way that feels both instinctive and organic.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Here’s what else has been going on for these industry giants — just in case you missed it. The eCommerce giant teamed up with Hyperwallet to ensure that merchants using the platform could be paid quickly, in their desired currency and sans exorbitant cross-border fees.

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Long Lasting Ideas

MAY 30, 2014

Most people see their banks and/or credit unions as something they need but do not easily differentiate why they should use one from the other. To do this, active listening and observation are keys to finding out what keeps your customers up at night, prevents them from getting their job done, or makes life difficult for them.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 19, 2015

Do you have testimonials on your web site and reviews on directories and social media sites for your customers and prospective customers to see? As consumers, we readily use and trust reviews to assist in our decision making. Research Shows Consumers Trust Recommendations and Reviews.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

GAFA’s search data, smart home devices, advertising and marketing capabilities, and more offer compelling use cases for the beauty industry. Amazon Echo and Alexa pursue beauty use cases. The app includes features to book beauty services, take quizzes, and listen to influencer-curated beauty podcasts.

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Google Apple Industry Branding 72

William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Getting ready to show how someone might use a connector, in this case Google, now in a design environment to drop the widget in the application and can preview how it looks in different devices. Demo: Logging into App without the use of password. WhatsApp is huge internationally but are consumers really using it in the U.S.?

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social media ATM Mobile Customer Experience 40

Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Something is sacred, in the sense I am using the word, when the cultural significance attached to it precludes an economic discussion. To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g., and much harder to remedy. Capital One) is managing.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Something is sacred, in the sense I am using the word, when the cultural significance attached to it precludes an economic discussion. To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g., and much harder to remedy. Capital One) is managing.

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Data Security System US 40

Jessica Ellerm

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

And 1 in 10 Gen Y’s will post their resolutions to social media, in a bid to make themselves more accountable. So feeling very conformist, this year, I decided to revert to my Gen Y type and take part in some financial goal setting, combined with social activity. The birth of #31daysofwealthhacks. So how did I go?

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Credits was a virtual currency and payments platform used to power in-app purchases on Facebook. Yes, they know that WeChat with WeChat Pay doesn’t use crypto or its own rails, but they haven’t had much luck igniting outside of China. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We’re going to show not only aggregate data across all these but, in some cases, we’ll show some specific slices. So, this was really a great place for strategic thinking to come into play, but not in the way that we’re used to thinking about it. Nobody was thinking about curbside pickup in January.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

That’s the sense one gets after listening to Fritz Lanman, CEO at ClassPass. Furthermore, consumers are always looking for variety, and for community — something a digital operation like ClassPass can help build in almost a social-media-like way. Businesses that can tap into those habits can often tap into a gold mine.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Facebook’s launch of Libra on June 18 unleashed a firestorm of media coverage, mostly repetitive, and mostly a piling on over the regulatory bear that it poked when unveiling its global payments plus cryptocurrency plans. Have you overdosed on Libra coverage yet? And it’s not even been two whole weeks. There simply weren’t any other options.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm said that it will not view or listen to video calls, and that the calls are encrypted. Beyond that, Facebook stated that it will treat the calls the way it treats Messenger traffic on the platform: It doesn’t track what users are saying, but does keep a close eye on how often they are using the service, among other things.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In many cases, one of the most significant operational risks organizations face today doesn’t come from fraudsters or cybercriminals—it comes from their own employees. In most cases, risk management and compliance teams haven’t been able to evolve quickly enough to keep pace with the relentless ingenuity of the wrongdoers.

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FICO

MARCH 20, 2017

I just presented a webinar on GDPR in collections , so I’ve got an hour’s worth of material if you want to listen to it. It’s not just about social media data. Consent isn’t what it used to be. You can’t assume a customer has given their consent to use their data just because it’s in your T&Cs.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

But in most cases, the real story is more complex than catchy headlines can really do justice. The media caricature of millennials glosses over how changing consumption preferences are driven by complex factors — like millennials’ financial situation, the ethics they want their products to embody, and their greater focus on health.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

You needed The Pirate Bay to burn the media industry to the ground. And yet, evolution has shepherded the Homo Sapien ahead of all other primates and apex predators through the ability to socially cooperate on a massive scale. the way that MegaUpload being chased around with subpoenas is less useful than building Spotify or Netflix.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For those of you who have not seen our awards before, a quick summary of the rigorous rules and methodology we use to compile them—uh, none. It’s nice to see somebody passionate about using new payments technology to make banking easier and cheaper for the financially disadvantaged. Not even close. . 2015 Executive Call-out.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Virtually all campers reported bringing their some kind of tech device with them camping, primarily in case of emergencies or to research safety issues.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Notably, Solyndra’s rise coincided with the passing of 2009’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which contained various subsidies and promises of investment for sustainable US energy initiatives. In March 2009, the US government announced it planned to award Solyndra a guaranteed loan of $535M as part of that initiative.

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Lex Sokolin

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally, there is a sharp, core distinction between human nature and its social DNA, and the issues around quality of life, median income, longevity and health outcomes. like banks) confirm the identities of over 300 million customers around mobile payments and onboarding use-cases, generating $100 million in revenue.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Product: Fresco News ‘ social reporting platform. They have spent (in rubles) twice (!) Product: BTCJam.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Airbnb visitors can now book airline tickets (logical since consumers have just booked a room), Venmo users can how make purchases at the merchants that Venmo users are or could be splitting the tab anyway, and Pandora now lets listeners order concert tickets for their favorite artists after listening to their music. Millennials.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just listen to Twitter bots and the talking heads on the propaganda channels. Remember Napster, and Kazaa, and BitTorrent, with their brick through the window of the media industry? Certainly one way to look at the explosion of file sharing is to focus on the absolute figures of people consuming media for free. Everyone, right?

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