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

ConversionXL

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.”. Advertisers who have not yet implemented Google Offline Conversion Tracking and Facebook’s Conversions API should prepare to do so now.

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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

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Why I love the Care Space

A Crowded Space

For elder caregivers that are working at an agency — the main benefit is client acquisition and stability of work. That should be way more than enough to cover acquisition costs. . This may make disintermediation a big challenge. Making this process easy and convenient should be enough to prevent disintermediation.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”.

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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna

Growthink Blog

CVS' proposed acquisition this week of health insurance giant Aetna is a big deal. For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore.

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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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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether.