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How Much Can Technology Improve Healthcare Payments?

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Touted by observers and industry players as one of the top trends that could impact medical billing and data management for 2018, the technology is increasingly being viewed as part of the path to better efficiency in payments. No matter the technology, companies hoping to make profits in healthcare payments have a tough road.

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The Buyers: Millennials Love-Hate Chain Restaurants

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According to contradicting views, millennials are both hooked on chain restaurants while simultaneously killing their existence. Technology has lent itself to increasing the amount of mobile delivery orders, but there are additional contributing factors pulling from both sides of the restaurant spectrum. billion by 2020.

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Boomers Vs. Millennials: Holiday Shopping … In September?

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It’s still technically summer for a few more days, but we already know how shoppers — Baby Boomers and millennials — are going to shop this holiday season. But how are Baby Boomers and millennials going to gift this year? Those millennials simply just say, “No, thanks.”. So, what are millennials buying? Who’s online?

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How Many Dedicated Content Channels Do Millennials Need?

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It took traditional media outlets a few extra years to figure out that millennials don’t quite care for getting their news and entertainment from the same places their parents did, but now that the cat’s out of the bag on these consumers’ on-the-go smartphone habits , brands everywhere are scrambling for a piece of the mobile pie.

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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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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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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.