social media

Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more...

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Facebook Tests Face ID

Facebook is testing out its own version of Apple’s Face ID as a way to verify users’ identities so they can regain...

Millennials Still Prefer Snapping Over Instagramming

A new report shows that Snapchat is the third-most popular app among 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S., two spots ahead of...

Facebook Tracker: At Home And Abroad

Facebook was behind the Chinese photo-sharing app Colorful Balloons, which was launched anonymously earlier this year, the company confirmed last week. Facebook,...

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International

Tencent To Increase Investments In Payments

Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and...

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Facebook Expands Marketplace Into 17 New European Markets

Facebook, the social media giant, is pushing further into the world of eCommerce, by expanding its Marketplace service, which connects local buyers...

Facebook Quietly Launched Photo-Sharing App In China This Year

Facebook has reportedly entered the market in China, anonymously launching a new photo-sharing app earlier in the year. According to a report, the...

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Can Facebook’s Video Chat Device Reverse The Hardware Curse?

From pioneering the infinite social News Feed to breaking down consumers’ psychological barriers around privacy to driving politics and news (and fake...

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Digital Payments

Paytm Plans Messaging Service To Compete With WhatsApp

Paytm is planning to launch a messaging service by the end of August to compete with Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp. According to Reuters,...

Facebook’s Building 8 Lab Working On Video Chat Device

Facebook, the social media giant, is reportedly working on a video chat device geared toward the home. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with...

B2B Payments

Facebook Messenger Updates Entice Businesses, Developers

Facebook wants more businesses to use its Messenger service to enhance their own customer experiences. Reports Friday (July 28) said Facebook has...

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Merchant Innovation

Twitter Tests Subscription Service To Promote Tweets

Aiming to boost revenue after showing no user growth in its recently reported quarterly earnings, social media mogul Twitter has launched a...

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The Missing ‘M’ In Facebook Messenger

Some of our most important innovations have happened by accident. In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming left his lab for vacation without cleaning up....

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eBay Adds New Image Recognition to Its Search Options

Founded in 1995, some may say eBay is the original online marketplace. With more than 20 years in the eCommerce business, eBay...

Snap Opens Pop-Up Shop In Harrods

Snap has opened its first pop-up shop, selling Spectacles inside the famous London department store Harrods. Tech Crunch reported that this is...

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Social Media Is King For Gen Z Influence

Imagine growing up in a world where the internet — and the good and bad parts of it — has always existed. That’s the...

Payment Methods

Facebook To Start Charging Users For Published Content

Facebook’s head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said Wednesday (July 19) the social media giant will soon start charging users for accessing...

Mobile Commerce

Amazon Interjects Social Through Amazon Spark

Amazon recently announced the launch of Amazon Spark, a service designed to improve customers’ ability to find new products. According to a...

Partnerships / Acquisitions

India Is Now Facebook’s Largest Audience, Knocking U.S. To Second Place

Facebook reported to its advertisers that India has overtaken the United States to become the platform’s largest country audience. According to The...

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Uber Acquihires Social Product Developer Swipe Labs To Work On Driver App

Uber has acqui-hired Swipe Labs, the social product studio run by Marwan Roushdy, to help the company further develop its driver app....

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Chatbots

AI/BOTS: AI’s Impact on The Digital Retail Revolution

The digital retail revolution is well underway. Fusing technology into in-store experiences has officially gone mainstream, and retailers are looking for ways...

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Pinterest Hires Two Former Google Executives

Pinterest is building out its advertising team, and it means business. The visual social media site just announced the hiring of two...

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L’Oréal Jumps Into AR Makeup App YouCam Makeup

Buying the wrong shade of lipstick or foundation is something that most every person that wears makeup goes through. It can be...

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IPO

Snap Shares Break Below IPO Price

Shares of Snap, Inc. broke below their initial public offering (IPO) price, a milestone no company publicly traded likes to see. Reuters...

Partnerships / Acquisitions

The Buyers: Generation Z’s Shopping Preferences

Generation Z are the next up-and-coming group of shoppers who retailers are turning to for the future of retail. Yes, those born...

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Baidu Buys Human Machine Interaction Tech Company KITT.AI For Undisclosed Sum

KITT.AI, the company that makes human machine interaction easy with natural language understanding technologies, has been sold to Baidu, the leading internet...

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Apple

Happy 10th Anniversary iPhone

Ten years ago today, enthusiasts were waking up on the streets outside of Apple Stores nationwide in the hopes of getting their...

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Pinterest Upgrades Image Recognition With Lens Offering

In eCommerce news, while social media sites like Instagram and Tumblr feature a myriad of ways to enhance people’s wardrobes by suggesting...

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Omnicommerce

Can Social Become The Complete Fashion Shopping Experience?

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but can it help a chatbot make you look like a million bucks? The...

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Moscow Vending Machine Sells Fake Instagram Likes

In today’s tech-savvy and social media–charged society, it seems like there’s a service for everything. A shopping mall near Red Square in...

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Facebook Is Trying To Woo Automakers To Advertise On Its Platforms

Facebook is going after automakers to increase advertising revenue from an industry that hasn’t been a big buyer of ads on the social media...

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ResTech

The Buyers: Millennials Love-Hate Chain Restaurants

Imagine going on a road trip with friends or family and stopping for a bite to eat. Typically, stopping at a chain...

News

Social Media Vetting Looms For Visa Applicants

Add social media to the list of inputs for vetting U.S. visa applicants. Various sources, including CNBC.com, reported late last week that...

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Profit Is Icing On The #Cake For Instagrammers

Chelsey White gets to ‘Gram her cake and have it, too. The 26-year-old Instagram celebrity has monetized her baking hobby to the...

Security & Fraud

Russian Hackers Tricked Pentagon Official With Tweet

Russian hackers were able to get into the computer of a Pentagon official using a link attached to a Twitter post. According...

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Facebook Personal Goes Live

Say goodbye to GoFundMe campaigns on Facebook’s newsfeed. Because now, Facebook has launched its own fundraising platform. Sick? Raise money to cover...

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Social Commerce

Facebook’s Content Conundrum

In 1942, the U.S. Office of War Information created a marketing slogan that has since become a favored colloquialism for the importance of...

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Mobile Payments

BBVA Launches Spanish Social Media Payment Tools

BBVA has launched a new bot that allows Spanish customers to access financial information via Facebook and Telegram, as well as a tool...

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Facebook Tests X-App Notifications

Facebook has confirmed that it’s testing out a feature that would show notifications from Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and allow users to instantly...

Glossier And Outdoor Voices Make Fashion More Accessible

As more technology has given businesses the capability to more directly reach out to consumers, it appears that the fashion and beauty...

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Spearmint LOVE On Why Social Media Matters (Especially For Growing Businesses)

When it comes to growing a business, social media matters. Leveraged to a business’ advantage, social media can be a key to...

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Faster Payments

Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

While P2P transactions are gaining popularity, can they address the age-old discomfort of splitting bills among friends? For the latest issue of...

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SMBs

Netsertive Survey Finds Small Businesses Falling Short On Social Media Marketing

A survey by Netsertive, a digital marketing technology company, has found that many small businesses in the United States have not come...

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Faster Payments

NEW REPORT: What Faster Payments Means To Venmo — And The P2P Use Case

While there are plenty of tools that make it easier to get money deposited into a bank or debit card account, there...

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FanContact Launches Facebook-Enabled Marketing Software

With more companies looking to sync up with Facebook’s Messenger for customer service and promotional efforts, it should come as no surprise...

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Payments Innovation

Facebook’s MySpace Problem

Could fake news and horrific videos in the Facebook news feed create Facebook’s MySpace moment? It’s the question that Karen Webster ponders...

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