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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays

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Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. It’s finally here: with the iOS 11.2

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Apple Pay Faces Hemispheric Pressure

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Asda Is Thinking About Apple Pay… Maybe. Asda, is testing Apple Pay. has refused to support Apple Pay and instead rolled out its own app, Walmart Pay, for use with iOS and Android in December 2015. Asda is being noncommittal about future plans and is not saying whether there may be a wider rollout of Apple Pay to its 626 U.K.

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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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Mobile Banking and Millennials – Will the Love Last?

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A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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A new digital bank needs a new customer service experience

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Revamping the company’s internal structure is one of the first steps Bradesco took to achieve the goal of creating experiences that meet expectations of millennials. If it doesn’t, negative news travels fast through millennial networks. Social-based marketing. Protection (Security). IBMFintech Twitter. IBMLive Twitter.

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Now Entering The Connected Device Arena: Jim Beam

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And this is not Jim Beam’s first time at bat: In September 2016, it borrowed some thunder from the new Apple Watch with its own Jim Beam Apple Watch , created to promote its Jim Beam Apple line of apple-flavored whiskey. Adding a celebrity to the family is always a good way to catch the millennial demographic’s eye.

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Nike, Pepsi Lead The Year Of Direct To Consumer

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College-educated shoppers also outpace those with only high-school degrees or less, while bridge millennials, millennials and Generation Zers expressed greater interest than Gen-X and Baby Boomers did. Maybe it’s apples that don't even have bruises, but. For example, 43.9 percent who earn less than $50,000.

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