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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

The country has been standing out as a cyber security hub around the world. It has a very succinct and purposeful site and, in times of digital transformation in which themes such as blockchain, cloud computing, cyber security and virtual currencies are high, it makes for a startup that, without a doubt, in worth keeping on the radar.

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

Agile VC

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. Q2 Holdings is a leading provider of secure, cloud-based digital banking solutions. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Mari Holds a B.A. Teten: How should a corporate VC define and measure success?

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear. The Known Unknowns are going to be a source of job security for the next two or three years (perhaps less on the Marketing side).

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Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. I think users that are marketers rather that are trying to gain that space, you know, your Google My Business profile is going to be your first step in making sure you secure that. Neil Crist: Without question.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Over 30% have used mobile banking in the past month, a mode of banking that is currently more efficient in Nigeria than it is in the United States.