Category Archives: Social Media

Alibaba Pays US$586 million for a 18% Stake in Weibo

Posted on April 30, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. agreed to buy a stake of 18% in Sina Corp. (SINA)’s Weibo for $586 million, connecting China’s largest Twitter-like service with the nation’s biggest e-commerce company. Alibaba acquired preferred and ordinary shares and has the option … Continue reading →

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Authentication: Eliminating Fictitious Identities

Posted on April 25, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

The key message from FICO Bankinganalyticsblog was that one should not believe everything that one sees online.  Organizations need to do more to improve their on-boarding or customer authentication protocols to prevent fictitious identities being booked.   While the fabrication of fictitious … Continue reading →

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Salesforce Unveils Software for Marketing on Facebook, Twitter

Posted on April 24, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management software, introduced an advertising application that lets brands run campaigns on Facebook Inc. (FB) and Twitter Inc. Social.com gives marketers software to create campaigns for the Web and mobile devices, targeting data from Facebook … Continue reading →

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International Business Machines (IBM) Acquires UrbanCode

Posted on April 23, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

International Business Machines Corp. has acquired UrbanCode Inc., which helps businesses quickly deliver mobile, social, big data and cloud software.  Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. With UrbanCode’s technology, businesses can reduce the cycle time it takes to … Continue reading →

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Germany: Credit Scoring in the Cross-hairs of Consumerism

Posted on March 18, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

„Will Ilse Aigner continue her populist attacks against consumer credit information companies?“ asks Dr. Willi Bredemeier, Publisher of Password Germany in his recent Pushdienst of Friday March 15th 2015.

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Social Media: The New Benchmark Of The Contemporary Business World

Posted on March 6, 2013 by ieijcb@attglobal.net

For you the word ‘social media’ can seem to be a relatively new phenomenon. Though you are right as far as its advent in the world of modern business and economy, yet it has quickly became the cynosure of one … Continue reading →

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