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

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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

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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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