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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach

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And most of the nation got a good chuckle — except perhaps the investors who threw $125 million at the disruptive future of juice. The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. In fairness, Juicero strongly recommends hand-squeezing the juice. Ready to jump in?

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Airbnb Competitor Domio Lands $100M; Aims To Double Market Share

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Domio , a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to 25 markets by 2020, according to reports on Tuesday (Dec. The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. The funding round closed in late summer.

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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M

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million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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Despite Plenty Of Concerns, SMB Optimism Holds Fast

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Luckily, research from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One and others often point to one thing: Despite the challenges, small businesses are optimistic. That doesn’t mean non-millennial entrepreneurs are necessarily struggling, though. billion in working capital is on the books for U.K. Eighty-one percent of U.S.

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The New Kitchen Merges With The Old

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By January 2013, the second-generation Instant Pot was Amazon’s best-selling pressure cooker, and in 2016 the product rose to national consciousness when on Prime Day the price dropped to $70 and hundreds of thousands of people bought one. Yes, Instant Pot-side chats are the fireside chats of the millennial generation.

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Is It Officially Time To Start Worrying About Consumer Credit?

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As of January 2016, 43 percent of borrowers were behind in their payments or had stopped making them all together. And now it seems credit cards are coming to the party — Capital One, Synchrony and Discover Financial have all increased their loan-loss provisions and reported increasing delinquencies. So is it time to worry?

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How Target’s Black Friday Deals Consolidate And Grow Their Core Consumers

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The year 2016 has not been an easy one for Target — as its same-store sales have slipped, grocery has been an ongoing problem, and Target finds itself increasingly squeezed from two sides: by an expanding Walmart in the physical world and an ever-growing Amazon online. Young With Expendable Cash . Probably not a bad opening play.

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