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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

PYMNTS

Older adults tend to own, while younger adults skew much more heavily toward renting – particularly millennials, for whom homeownership is lower than other generations at the same point in their lives. 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. Co-living companies in the U.S.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

PYMNTS

That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. communities.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

PYMNTS

Just as many boomers have made the digital shift as millennials, and as many of those living in big cities and towns have made the shift as those living in less populated areas. On the sixth anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay in November, a PYMNTS study of some 7,585 U.S. consumers showed that of the 7.75 percent of all retail sales.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

PYMNTS

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). The timing seemed perfect.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

PYMNTS

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). The timing seemed perfect.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

PYMNTS

by the year 2019, Apple could be hoping that the new wallet features may also make the iPhone more appealing and help Apple compete with Samsung, not that it needs it when Samsung is imploding while its Galaxy 7s are exploding. payments networks were undermining public confidence in payments technologies, U.S.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. Investment banking revenues hit a 13-year-low in 2019.