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Silicon Valley Is Losing Its Luster With Millennials

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Silicon Valley is losing its luster with young adults, as recent polling shows millennials are gearing up to leave the San Francisco area at an increased rate. Reuters noted that migration to other areas of the country is playing a role, with Santa Clara County — home to Alphabet, the Google parent, and Apple — seeing the biggest decline.

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

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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. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. Apple Pay’s Digital-First Disconnect.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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Apple Needs To Diversify. Retailers like Kohl’s, Walmart and CVS are rolling out their own mobile-payment services and competing with Apple Pay, but it’s not because of overwhelming user adoption of mobile payments. But Apple needs to be quick. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue.

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Getting Mobile Ready

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A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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Chatbots And The Future Of Facebook Messenger

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Its chatbot platform, they hope, will spawn an ecosystem of developers who will find a variety of use cases to make bots a better (and more lucrative) use of their time then developing apps for the Apple and Android ecosystem. Apple, the undisputed king of closed ecosystems, has said that it will soon make apps searchable.

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