Social Media

Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

Facebook To Allow Some Crypto Ads
Facebook To Allow Some Crypto Ads
June 27, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook moved Tuesday (June 26) to let some advertisements for cryptocurrency run on its platform. In a blog post, Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of product management,...

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Instagram’s Plans To Turn Context Into Conversions
Instagram’s Plans To Turn Context Into Conversions
June 26, 2018  |  Social Commerce

Context is everything, a truism that is becoming increasingly true when it comes to commerce in the digital age. Having what a customer wants is...

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Social Media As The ‘Ticket’ For Contextual Commerce
Social Media As The ‘Ticket’ For Contextual Commerce
June 22, 2018  |  Retail

Sports fans can’t get enough of their favorite players and teams: Their social media accounts oftentimes have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. But...

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Instagram Expands Shopping To Instagram Stories
Instagram Expands Shopping To Instagram Stories
June 12, 2018  |  Mobile Commerce

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 release, the company...

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Facebook ‘Whitelists’ Granted Firms Access To Walled-Off User Data
Facebook ‘Whitelists’ Granted Firms Access To Walled-Off User Data
June 11, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook is facing allegations that it inked data-sharing deals with certain companies, providing special access to user information after 2015 when it said it no...

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Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams
Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams
June 08, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. After problems with...

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LinkedIn Rolls Out ‘Your Commute’ For Job Seekers
LinkedIn Rolls Out ‘Your Commute’ For Job Seekers
June 07, 2018  |  Personnel

Moving into location-based services, LinkedIn is rolling out a function that allows job seekers to scope out the commute time to potential employers. The feature,...

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Facebook Winds Down Data Sharing With Chinese Firms
Facebook Winds Down Data Sharing With Chinese Firms
June 06, 2018  |  Facebook

After learning that Facebook has data sharing partnerships with Chinese firms, members of Congress are seeking to learn more about the practice. Huawei, for example,...

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Facebook Will Remove Trending News Feature
Facebook Will Remove Trending News Feature
June 01, 2018  |  Facebook

Four years after rolling out Trending news on its homepage, Facebook is taking down the feature. In addition, Facebook plans to remove third-party partner integrations...

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