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

ConversionXL

They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. Users can block first-party cookies, but doing so often impacts the user experience (e.g.,

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B No entity is immune to technology disruption.

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

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. So not a new store of value and this is basically scenario #1 described above.

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