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Ex-Uber Exec To File $250M SPAC IPO Backed By Former Google CEO

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Hims , a direct-to-consumer company selling health products targeted at millennials, is using a SPAC to go public , for example. Michael’s SPAC intends to buy a technology company, where Michael will serve as chairman and CEO, IPO Edge reported. He was also a technology, media and telecommunications banker at Goldman Sachs.

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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

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Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Deep Dive: Voice Assistant Technology For Mobile Order-Ahead

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Such tools are no longer at the far reaches of the universe, and today’s technologies would make the Enterprise’s crew feel right at home. Wingstop, a fast-casual buffalo wings chain with 1,031 locations worldwide, tends to be an early adopter for new technologies. Orderscape is also working on voice-activated ordering technologies.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

CB Insights

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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Does Hipmunk’s Demise Signal Larger Changes In Travel?

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As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. Back in 2014, Hipmunk said it had raised $20 million in Series C funding.

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3 Tips for Targeting Millennial Entrepreneurs

NCR

There’s nothing more suitable for technology disruption than traditional small business banking. And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. And 77 percent of them said that technology makes them feel “more in control.”.

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FiServe Survey: More Consumers Using Mobile Bill Pay, Slowly Testing Digital Wallets

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The latest Expectations & Experiences consumer trends survey from Fiserv , a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, finds that consumers are paying more bills from mobile devices while slowly starting to venture into digital wallets.

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