PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Yep, that’s the sound of the physical retail death spiral revving up,” Webster wrote of the singularly and visibly sluggish holiday shopping season at the mall in 2013 in early 2014. “ So that faint whooshing sound you’re hearing?”

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Go to where millennials are and find out the trends that are popular among them.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

A few years ago, The New York Times took a shot at the quantification of fun with an article that does the rounds on social media every summer in late June despite the fact that it is now four years old. This year, 89 percent of millennials are planning to take a vacation. Which is not to say that others have not tried.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

But there wasn’t a person on the planet, save us here at PYMNTS, who back in 2014 didn’t say Apple Pay was going to crush everyone, marginalize the card networks and kill PayPal. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

The latest size 12 to fall is what was touted as the online lenders secret sauce – the algorithms that crunched data, they reported, better than anyone ever had done, ever, in order to make lending decisions to consumers that would mitigate investors risk and maximize their return – have turned out to be not to smart.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

The beauty and grooming segment is expanding rapidly as startups experiment with new product formulations, new distribution methods, and new strategies for online and offline consumer engagement. Despite deal growth, funding totals have been slipping since 2014; however, this is due to momentum among newer, smaller startups.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Hot Pepper Beauty, one of Japan’s top online booking services, worked with Google AdWords to attract customers and increase conversions while lowering costs. The platform has been at the center of various brand safety crises, as well as recent scandals related to beauty influencers’ online behavior. Consumer Insights.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

in 3 Rounds from 4 Investors, Most Recent Funding, M Series C on December 8, 2014. I’ve heard that financial planners are having a hard time getting Millennials thinking about retirement but instead focus on short-term financial goals – homes, vacations, etc. As always, how does this company make money? Boy, that’s the truth.

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