Square Appointments Integrates With Google And Instagram
Square is giving merchants a better way to work with Google and Instagram. The company says that its Square Appointments will now integrate with those two platforms, “allowing sellers to grow awareness...
View ArticleWePay’s Aberman: Seamless Commerce Requires Wider Lens
Here’s a buzzword: seamless commerce. For good reason, too. It is an appropriate way to describe the nirvana of the commerce experience, one in which consumers and merchants make sales without...
View ArticleNew Instagram Feature Will Tell Brands About Bookmarked Products
Instagram is working on a shopping feature that would tell brands which products users are bookmarking, according to a report by CNBC. The Facebook-owned company has been giving users shopping-specific...
View ArticleZuckerberg Wants To Connect Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp
In an effort to connect messaging functions across multiple apps, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is looking to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. The aim is to combine the...
View ArticleFacebook Adding Instagram, WhatsApp To User Metrics
Facebook is planning to change the way it reports user metrics, no longer giving results just for the social media site, but also including Instagram and WhatsApp, according to a report from CNBC. The...
View ArticleWhy Health And Beauty Retailers Are Driving Digital Innovation
Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions...
View ArticleHow Tech Innovators Are Enabling Contextual Commerce Experiences
In the highly connected digital age, consumers are interacting with a multitude of social media sites as well as apps and connected devices. During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing...
View ArticleInstagram Sees Money In Fundraisers
Facebook‘s Instagram is planning to launch a Fundraiser sticker this year. Sources have reported that new code and imagery found in Instagram’s Android app show how a user can search for nonprofits or...
View ArticleIndian Parliamentary Panel Summons Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Over Users’...
The Indian parliamentary committee on information technology has asked representatives from Facebook, the messaging app WhatsApp and the photo sharing app Instagram to appear and answer questions about...
View ArticleInstagram Users Targeted In ‘Get Rich Quick’ Scams
Authorities in the United Kingdom have warned that there are Instagram posts that promote false “get rich quick” investment scams, and that the schemes have already tricked hundreds of people out of an...
View ArticleFacebook Lawsuit Goes After Sellers Of Fake Accounts
To tackle “fraudulent activity” on its platform, Facebook and Instagram are suing four companies and individuals in China. The case is over the sale of fake accounts, followers and likes, according to...
View ArticleT.J.Maxx Launches Multi-City Interactive Game
Discount retailer T.J.Maxx is partnering with Instagram tastemakers to promote a new term called “Maxximizing,” which the company says means not needing to sacrifice on quality or price to find...
View ArticleThe Tie That Binds? The Royal Instagram And Brexit Preppers
Over the centuries, the British have gained a reputation for a certain steadiness of character, best epitomized via the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster commissioned by the British government in 1939 in...
View ArticleInstagram Founders Denounce Warren’s Big Tech Breakup
Instagram Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger responded to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up large tech companies, such as Facebook and Amazon. “I think the conversation will go better...
View ArticleFacebook, Instagram Experience Outages Around The World
Facebook and Instagram have been suffering from worldwide outages today (March 13). According to USA Today, the problems began around noon (EST) on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram around the world....
View ArticleThe Great Facebook Fumble – And The Economic Damage Done
Every day, in nearly every corner of the world, 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook and 500 million people log onto Instagram. On Wednesday (March 13), that audience of almost two billion – roughly a...
View ArticleInstagram Tests The Ability To Shop In-App
Instagram, the photo and video sharing social media platform operator, is rolling out a trial of a new shopping program in which users can shop and check out within the app. According to a report in...
View ArticlePayPal Powers Instagram Checkout
Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the social media platform become a more attractive place for consumers to buy retail products, and to capture more sales via what is coming to...
View ArticleData Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal,...
While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is...
View ArticleFashionPass And Wardrobe Rentals Tailored To Influencers
With the successful launch of Rent the Runway in 2009, there have been many variations of fashion-on-demand rental services. Le Tote and Stitch Fix send subscription boxes, Tulerie offers rental...
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