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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Third-party cookies are the new Flash. As Schiff concurs, this is “an opportunity for publishers that have become disintermediated from their visitors due to too many middlemen to try and take control of their destiny again.”. Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Now, reluctantly, Google is, too.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers. Flash sales companies were momentarily able to offer this, as were daily deal companies.