548 articles tagged with this keyword
News/Social media
Reuters has launched a new social media hub, providing a real-time sentiment guide to what news, companies and people are hot on the Web.
03 February 2012
Turkey's Garanti Bank is to start offering its Bonus cardholders free Facebook Credits when they use their cards to make online and offline purchases.
Facebook pulled in revenues of $557 million from its payments business in 2011 as its decision to force games developers to use its virtual currency bared fruit, according to the social network's IPO filings.
02 February 2012
Microblogging search outfit Topsy Labs is to release a Twitter sentiment analysis tool later this year to investors looking for guidance on stock-price moves after demonstrating impressive market-beating results on Netflix and Apple stock.
25 January 2012
India's ICICI has launched a Facebook app that lets customers carry out banking tasks without leaving the social network.
18 January 2012
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is celebrating its one year anniversary on Facebook with a new milestone of over 100,000 fans.
National Australia Bank has launched a high-tech concept branch in Melbourne, complete with its own NAB scent, pumped into the building to help relax customers.
05 January 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an investment adviser with trying to sell $500 billion-worth of fictitious securities on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
US bank Citi has unveiled a Facebook application that lets customers pool their loyalty programme reward points.
03 January 2012
IdeaPlane, a UK-based enterprise social networks (ESNs) specialist has launched, claiming two unnamed top-10 global investment banks as founding clients for its platform.
16 December 2011
A Hong Kong man has been fined and given community service for selling unlicensed securities advice through social networking site Facebook.
Swedbank customers in Latvia rushed to withdraw money from ATMs over the weekend, panicked by rumours swirling on social media sites that the bank was in financial difficulty.
12 December 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has set up an online portal for customers to post ideas for new products and services.
05 December 2011
Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.
01 December 2011
Responding to user concerns, start-up Movenbank has moved to allay privacy and security fears over its use of Facebook for registration and log-in to the site.
29 November 2011
New mobile-oriented products from SunGard and VocaLink have been released as the industry's biggest vendors respond to pressure on banks to deliver tactical innovations for customers that can be applied to back-end legacy processes and infrastructures.
23 November 2011
PayPal has introduced a Facebook application that lets users send money to friends within the social network.
18 November 2011
Halifax bank is asking Facebook users to record themselves singing a classic Christmas song and add their effort to an online choir to raise money for the Save the Children charity.
16 November 2011
Bank of America has been beaten to the Google+ punch by pranksters who have set up a parody business page for the firm.
15 November 2011
Barclays has teamed up with TV station Channel 4 to launch an online competition that will see young Brits pitch business and community ideas for a slice of £100,000 in funding.
14 November 2011
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.