Social media

548 articles tagged with this keyword

/Social media

Australian banks suffer ATM problems after cloud service outage

Millions of Australian banking customers were unable to access ATM and Eftpos services on Sunday after severe storms on the east coast caused widespread damage, including a major outage at a cloud computing service used by several banks.

/Social media

Mobile bank Number26 faces Twitter outcry over hundreds of cancelled accounts

European smartphone-only bank Number26 is facing a Twitter backlash after cancelling the accounts of hundreds of customers, many of whom claim to have been given no explanation.

/Social media

Europeans ready to quit banks over out-of-date technology

As they increasingly bank online and through their mobiles, many Europeans say that they would leave providers that do not offer up-to-date technology, a survey from Fujitsu shows.

/Social media

Emirates Islamic introduces Twitter banking

UAE-based bank Emirates Islamic has begun letting customers request account information - such as balances and recent transaction details - over Twitter.

/Social media

Rapper Azealia Banks threatens hex on Jack Dorsey over Square Cash promotion

Jack Dorsey has upset rapper and part-time witch Azealia Banks, who has threatened a hex on the Twitter founder, claiming he has reneged on a deal to promote her mixtape in exchange for her pimping of his Square Cash app.

/Social media

Bank of America to connect with customers via Facebook Messenger

Bank of America is to tap Facebook's Messenger app as a new channel for communicating with customers.

/Social media

Singapore ponders Paym-style payments platform

Singapore is looking into the creation of a payments system similar to the UK's Paym that would let someone send money using only the recipient's mobile number, email address or social network account.

/Social media

Bussmann's holiday: UBS tech chief quits

Oliver Bussmann, the global CIO for UBS and the man credited with transforming the bank's IT, has left his role at the Swiss giant.

/Social media

Square integrates with Facebook Ads to drive customer sales

In its latest step to becoming a one-stop-shop for small businesses, Square has introduced Facebook Ad integration, enabling clients to use its platform to buy and target advertising on the social network.

/Social media

BMO prepares for NBA All Stars with 10ft tall ATM

The hordes of very tall men descending on Toronto this weekend for the NBA All Star game won't need to crouch down to access their equally large bank accounts thanks to a newly installed 10 foot tall Bank of Montreal ATM.

/Social media

ABN Amro rolls out Snapchat communications channel

ABN Amro is to use popular file-sharing app Snapchat as a channel for communications with its customers.

/Social media

Political tweet leads SF Fed to tighten Twitter policy

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has banned employees from tweeting from its Twitter account on personal devices after it was forced to hastily delete a political micro-missive.

/Social media

Bloomberg buys tech to monitor employee chat on social media

Bloomberg has acquired the technology assets of an Australian company capable of scanning enterprises for inappropriate communications in social media, using pattern matching technology.

/Social media

Scot faces 25-year jail term over alleged stock manipulation tweets

A Scottish citizen who allegedly tweeted false information about publicly traded companies causing over a million dollars of losses has been indicted for securities fraud by a federal grand jury in San Francisco.

/Social media

Royal Bank of Scotland to connect all staff to Facebook at Work

Royal Bank of Scotland is to connect 100,000 staff across the bank to Facebook at Work, an enterprise version of the social network, to encourage collaboration and allow employees to communicate faster and more efficiently.

/Social media

Goldman Sachs ditches Business Wire for Q3 results - Reuters

Goldman Sachs will not release its third quarter earnings report through Business Wire, instead posting the results on its website and through Twitter, according to Reuters.

/Social media

Dorsey stays on at Square despite becoming Twitter CEO

Jack Dorsey has confirmed that he will stay on as CEO of Square, despite taking on the same role at the other multi-billion dollar company he co-founded, Twitter.

/Social media

Bloomberg and Twitter ink data licensing deal

Bloomberg has extended its partnership with Twitter in an agreement that will see more data from the social media platform make its way to Bloomberg terminal users.

/Social media

Twitter partners Square on political donations service

Twitter has teamed up with Square to let Americans donate to presidential candidates through the social network.

/Social media

CommBank customers rage on Twitter over 18-hour outage; NatWest clients duped by bogus account

Customers raging on Twitter about an 18-hour outage at Commonwealth Bank that crippled the bank's computers overnight should beware a recent scam that saw NatWest clients duped in to handing over account details to a bogus handle posing as a bank helpline.