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

PYMNTS

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

Bank Innovation

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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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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Uber Co-Founder Kalanick Supports Expansion Of 3D-printed Hotel

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An idea hatched at the Burning Man desert arts festival, the experience-focused hospitality group Habitas was founded in 2014 by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo. . The startup uses 3D printing technology to build its hotels in Mexico, where Ripley says 100 rooms per month can be built. “We

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

Then came this bubble generation they named millennials. Ever call your millennial child only to get a text back asking "what?" There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs. Because that is what millennials needed at the time. We can ignore millennials no more.'