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781RetailThe Wonder Of The Winky Lux Experimental Shop
It’s been called so many things. “The Museum of Ice Cream for Makeup,” according to the team at Racked. “An Instagrammable Makeup...
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1.3KRetailWhy Hotels Are Collaborating With Social Media Influencers
Hotels have enjoyed the rewards of word-of-mouth marketing for years, but they now face a challenge: how can they deal with a...
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1.6KFacebookYouTube Set To Benefit From Facebook’s Recent Stumbles
YouTube has a chance to take advantage of recent Facebook problems and move past the social media platform in terms of website...
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1.0KEcosystemsA Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape
At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax...
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1.9KFacebookFacebook Takes Steps To Safeguard Users From Finance Fiends
Facebook announced its policy for deleting posts, including getting rid of content that could put users in financial jeopardy. The explanation comes...
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1.3KRegulationIndia’s Telecom Regulator Head Sharma To Stay On For Two More Years
The head of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Ram Sewak Sharma, will stay on in his role for two more years....
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1.4KEarningsSnap Loses 3M Users, But Sees Rise In Users Ages 35+
The backlash to the Snapchat redesign continued to depress user figures in the second quarter of 2018. But Snap Inc. still beat...
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1.0KFacebookGary Cohn: Social Media Cos Aren’t Trustworthy
Former Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn doesn’t trust social media companies. According to Bloomberg, Cohn believes that banks were more trustworthy in...
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2.6KRegulationSenator Mark Warner Drops New Policy Proposals For Regulating Tech
The team at Facebook is not having a great week, as it seems all of its recent data scandal chickens have come...
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2.0KRetailPop-Ups Getting A Boost From Social Media
Many people are flocking to pop-up shops and experiences in the hopes of capturing an Instagram-worthy photo — which is good news...
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2.3KRetailTouché LA, Social Influencer Alexis Ren Remake Middle-Market Fashion
Even a decade ago, Touché LA Co-founder Karl Singer told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, the middle market of fashion was a...
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1.5KSocial CommerceFacebook Testing AR Ads In News Feed
Facebook is bringing augmented reality (AR) to its News Feed, providing advertisers with a new way to reach potential customers. A report...
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2.1KeCommerceSnap’s Amazon Visual Commerce Connection
Visual product search is, reportedly, about to gain another foothold. A feature in planning by Snapchat — more popular with teens than Facebook...
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2.1KSecurity & FraudTimehop Discloses Data Breach That Impacts 21M Users
Timehop, the mobile app that gathers photos from social media, disclosed on Monday (July 9) that it was the subject of a...
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3.5KFacebookExpanded Federal Probe Sinks Facebook Shares
Following news that the U.S. government probe into the Facebook data breach connected with Cambridge Analytica has widened, shares of the company...
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2.0KFacebookFacebook Granted AOL, Nike, UPS Access To User Data
Facebook is involved in another scandal involving improper access to its user data. This time, the site has admitted that it gave...
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1.9KMobile CommerceCan Social Media Make Ordering Takeout Less Frustrating?
Food ordering and delivery have come a long way since reliance on the Yellow Pages and those paper menus stuck into door...
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1.3KRetailTod’s And Mr. Bags Take Luxury Retail Omnichannel
Luxury retail has run into a conundrum as digital channels and eCommerce continue to edge out brick-and-mortar shopping venues. Although eCommerce may...
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817FacebookFacebook To Allow Some Crypto Ads
Facebook moved Tuesday (June 26) to let some advertisements for cryptocurrency run on its platform. In a blog post, Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director...
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2.4KSocial CommerceInstagram’s Plans To Turn Context Into Conversions
Context is everything, a truism that is becoming increasingly true when it comes to commerce in the digital age. Having what a...
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2.0KRetailSocial Media As The ‘Ticket’ For Contextual Commerce
Sports fans can’t get enough of their favorite players and teams: Their social media accounts oftentimes have hundreds of thousands or millions...
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1.5KMobile CommerceInstagram Expands Shopping To Instagram Stories
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social network, announced Tuesday (June 12) that it is expanding shopping beyond Feed to Instagram Stories. In a press...
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933FacebookFacebook ‘Whitelists’ Granted Firms Access To Walled-Off User Data
Facebook is facing allegations that it inked data-sharing deals with certain companies, providing special access to user information after 2015 when it...
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2.2KSecurity & FraudSocial Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams
Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash....
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2.0KPersonnelLinkedIn Rolls Out ‘Your Commute’ For Job Seekers
Moving into location-based services, LinkedIn is rolling out a function that allows job seekers to scope out the commute time to potential...
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2.0KFacebookFacebook Winds Down Data Sharing With Chinese Firms
After learning that Facebook has data sharing partnerships with Chinese firms, members of Congress are seeking to learn more about the practice....
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2.4KFacebookFacebook Will Remove Trending News Feature
Four years after rolling out Trending news on its homepage, Facebook is taking down the feature. In addition, Facebook plans to remove...
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2.1KRetailPinterest Unveils Promoted Video Tool
Advancing its advertising efforts, Pinterest said that it plans to offer a promoted video tool, which allows marketers to gain more real...
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1.9KFacebookIn Papua New Guinea, Facebook May Shutter — For A Bit
Facebook going dark? In at least one corner of the world and at least for some stretch of time, that might be...
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2.4KRegulationPrivacy Critic Files GDPR Complaints Against Facebook And Google
As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, Facebook privacy critic Max Schrems has filed four complaints over consent required...
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3.2KFacebookFacebook Enables Two-Factor Authentication Without A Phone Number
Facebook, the social media giant, announced on Wednesday (May 23) that it has improved two-factor authentication, the industry-best practice for providing additional...
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2.0KSocial Commerce
Facebook’s Marketplace Adds Home Services
Starting now, thousands of home services professionals will be available via Facebook. The social media site’s Marketplace platform is rolling out a...
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1.2KToday In DataWhy Context Is Important In Commerce
In commerce, as in life, timing is everything. Show the right user the right Facebook offering at the right moment, and many...
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2.4KFacebookConsumer Advocacy Groups Want Facebook Broken Up
A group of progressive advocacy groups, including MoveOn and Demand Progress, is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to break up Facebook...
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2.4KRegulationUK To Put Stricter Policies In Place To Make Social Media Safer
The U.K. is introducing new laws to make social media safer. According to Reuters, British lawmakers want to tackle “the Wild West...
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2.0KFacebookFunds Reconsider Facebook Holdings
Unsatisfied with Facebook’s moves to step up privacy on its platform, multiple socially-conscious investment firms are unloading or reconsidering holdings in the...
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2.4KSocial CommerceKlout Gets Clouted In A World That Kept Score But Moved On
To get a sense of why some apps succeed while others don’t, pay some heed to Klout. Which has none – clout,...
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2.8KBlockchainBlockchain Gives Facebook Options — And Some Competitive Heft
At least one thing is clear about Facebook’s new interest in blockchain: It will help the social media giant keep up with...
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2.8KFacebookFacebook’s Blockchain Efforts Prompt Speculation
Facebook’s announcement last week that it was creating a blockchain unit led by one of its most senior executives, David Marcus, is...
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1.9KFacebookFacebook Undergoes A ‘Philosophical Shift’ As It Takes On Privacy Concerns
Since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill last month following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company has stepped up its...
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3.0KVISAVisa In Search Of A Traveler To Show Off Cashless Travel
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (May 15) its launch of a search for a travel enthusiast to send on an international...
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1.8KFacebook
Facebook Steps Up Policing Of Its Platform
Facebook disclosed earlier this week its efforts to fight back against fake and offending content on its platform, revealing that in the...
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4.9KRetailBrands Can Turn Social Video Views Into Conversions
Brands sometimes face a dilemma when it comes to reaching consumers online: how to drive sales without annoying potential customers. Some brands...
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2.3KMerchant InnovationInstagram Bows New Business Tools Focused On Messaging, Booking, Payments
In an effort to boost its presence in the business realm, Instagram unveiled new features on the social networking platform that will...
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1.3KFacebook
Facebook Fires An Engineer For Boasting About His Data Access
Facebook, reeling from a data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, fired an employee Thursday (May 3) for boasting that he can access the...
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2.9KEarningsTwitter 1Q Delivers 69 Pct Growth In Ad Engagements
Twitter’s revenue growth continued in the first quarter of 2018, with its investments in personalized content and video advertising helping the social...
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1.8KFacebookFacebook Unveils Once-Secret Content Policing Guide
Facebook is giving more detail on how and why it chooses to delete content from its network. The world’s largest social media...
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3.3KFacebookFacebook Tests Messenger Platform For High School Students
As Facebook tries to bring post-millennials onto its platform, the social media network appears to be at work on a feature geared...
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2.1KFacebookFacebook Gets Rare Downgrade Over Advertising Spending Growth
Facebook’s stock took a hit on Wednesday (April 18) after research firm OTR Global downgraded the stock, the first time an investment...
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1.9KSecurity & FraudData Firm Exposes 48M Social Media User Profiles
LocalBlox, a small data firm, created personal profiles of 48 million people using data from the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zillow...
