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Meta's major monetization of minors mishap: The FTC has proposed to bar the social giant from using children's data for their ad business.

There will be 3.86 billion monthly social network users this year, equal to almost half (48.3%) of the world鈥檚 population. Despite concerns about content moderation and data privacy that have plagued Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok鈥攖o name just a few鈥攖he social audience is still on the rise.

But alternatives are emerging: Southeast Asian markets have linked their domestic systems, and India is expanding its mobile bank-to-bank payments system abroad. More cross-border offerings will grow volume at large. But they鈥檒l also create a more customer-centric landscape that emphasizes better features and lower costs. Sources. Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Bizrate Insights.

If the internet becomes a sea of bots summarizing content written by other bots, its search product will be unusable. And if consumers don't use its search product, there's no reason for advertisers to keep spending on Google Search and Google loses its cash cow.

TikTok launches Creative Challenge: It鈥檚 a potential win-win for creators and brands seeking innovative advertising content.

No, but I love sea creatures of all types. I'm a big jellyfish fan. Marcus Johnson:. What did you call octopus before the show. Victoria Grace:. Big octopus fan. Marcus Johnson:. Friend? Victoria Grace:. So I'm-. Marcus Johnson:. Friend and food? Victoria Grace:. Friends. They're also food. They can be food. Delicious. Jeremy Goldman:. I don't think you guys are ready for this jelly because-.

Adults worldwide access smartphones at a higher rate (98%) than children do (90%), per December 2023 data from Razorfish and GWI.

Nearly a quarter (23%) of loyalty program professionals, across industries, say their biggest challenge is offering deep enough discounts to attract customers, per a global survey by Eagle Eye. Another 23% have a hard time balancing margins with attractive discounts, and 21% find it difficult to deliver offers to customers at the right time.

igh delivery costs are the No. 1 aspect of online shopping that frustrates adults worldwide, according to H1 2024 data from DHL.

Yeah, something in the sea. Marcus Johnson:. Good guesses. Something aquatic. These are really, really well-thought-out guesses. So according to the Guinness World Records, the oldest known living terrestrial animal is Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, who now is a longtime resident of the remote South Atlantic Island of St.

The other interesting fact from Asia, and this comes from Southeast Asia, is the rate of device ownership in this region is significantly lower than anywhere else in the world. And that has a lot to do with sort of the rural population in those countries, income divides, and the disparity between high-income and low-income ownership rates.

The fintech is focused on expanding in foreign markets like India and improving products at home with higher-rate savings accounts.

Adversarial relationship with China is bad for tech: Retaliation by Beijing shouldn鈥檛 surprise us as Biden eyes more tech sanctions and a US general starts preparing for war.

But what I also found fascinating is that India, which obviously is in Southeast Asia, is in the top half. Minda Smiley (02:36):. Oh, that is surprising. Marcus Johnson (02:38):. Is in the northern hemisphere, the bottom of India. The very bottom of the country is actually 500 miles above the equator. Minda Smiley (02:47):. Wow. Yeah. Wow. My geography skills are not great. I would never think that.

Number two: The seven rays in the crown, (basically the spikes), represent the Earth's seven seas. And finally: Creator and sculptor Fr茅d茅ric Auguste Bartholdi used his mother as the model. Do you guys know any of that? You're probably like, "Yeah, Marcus. We know.". Jacob Bourne:. But the lighthouse makes a lot of sense. Marcus Johnson:. It makes too much sense. Jacob Bourne:.

So before Christopher Columbus pillaged the new world, we associate it with Southeast Asian cuisine, chili peppers. But that region didn't actually have them until substantially later. So after the late 1400s. Lastly, and you guys can chime in here, there was a Tums... Of course they did. They conducted a poll, asked 5,000 Americans which state had the spiciest cuisine.

I'm going to guess it's some kind of sea creature, like a fish. Marcus Johnson (01:44):. No. Daniel Konstantinovic (01:46):. I did well last time I was on with guessing mosquito. Marcus Johnson (01:49):. Oh, you did, yeah. Paul Verna (01:49):. The bee? Marcus Johnson (01:51):. No, it is the Javan rhino. So there are only 75 of them left in the wild. They can be found in Java in Indonesia.

The Indian payments provider raised $350M for new products to diversify as competition intensifies.

Apple leads businesses leaning on China: The brewing tech cold war notwithstanding, companies like Apple need to rely on established supply chains. Continued foreign partnerships are essential to China鈥檚 recovery.

It launched Tap to Pay on Android a year after it signed on to deploy Apple鈥檚 Tap to Pay on iPhone鈥攈elping feed demand for softPOS and contactless payments.

Apple considers pricier iPhones to spur sales: Can an even more premium iPhone help increase sales? Apple seems to think so. Meanwhile, carriers are discounting its latest models in China by $100.

And in welcoming Hulu content to Disney+, the app's refreshed the logo, going from the classic Disney blue to more of a sea green as a nod to Hulu's colors.

It's just a sea of misinformation online with regards to health information and people just not knowing up from down. 8 in 10 Americans believe there's a prevalence of false or misleading health information on social media, but nearly as many 7 in 10 admit they're unable to access, sorry, unable to assess true from false or misleading information according to Health Affairs Scholar. Rajiv Leventhal:.