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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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Mercedes, BMW Hit The Open Road With Voice Technology At CES

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Starting with Siri’s appearance on the market in 2011 and exploding into the public consciousness with Amazon’s Alexa (and to a lesser extent Google Assistant), with rapid growth over the last six or so years, the voice connected future has been expanding into every aspects of the consumer’s life — and into the co-pilot seat.

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

CB Insights

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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Physical Retail Looks For New Life This Holiday Season

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The survey showed that Generation X encompassed the most prominent online shoppers, with 57 percent of them having goods shipped to their homes. Baby boomers were the second most likely to shop online and have goods shipped home, at 56 percent. The seven-floor store is Nordstrom ’s biggest location ever.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Online book stores.

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Tapping Tech To Take The Misery Out Of Moving

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Founders Stephen Vlahos and Cameron Doody weren’t working on changing the world in front of a computer screen in their dorm room — they were moving boxes into other people’s dorm rooms during move-in weekend at Auburn University where they were students in 2011. If it’s working — why fix it? And for good reasons, Martin said.

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The Connected Economy’s 10 Biggest US IPOs Of 2020

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Considered an online version of a dollar store, ContextLogic looked in many ways like the next Amazon. billion — not bad, but far below what other major online retailers are seeing. Co-founded in 2011 by Facebook veteran Doug Hirsch (now GoodRx’s CEO), the company has operated in the black since 2016. Wish ($17 billion).

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