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Reimagining The Bar Experience Without The Booze 

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Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer. Young people aren’t getting sober, per se, noted an often-cited Atlantic article from earlier this year, but they are getting decidedly “soberish.”. White Claw was the fad drink of the summer and did $1.2

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The Connected Car: An Extension Of The Consumer’s Home

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It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). The biggest driver for the connected car, said Frieden, is recognizing the importance of the millennial market and the technologically-enabled ways that millennials buy what they need. “So, Picture this. It’s snowing. trillion.”.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

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On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. Affluent millennials hold 52 percent of their money in cash and 28 percent in stocks, compared with 23 percent and 46 percent for older people, a UBS survey released in the first quarter found.

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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There are countless articles now on Amazon’s decision to break up with New York, ironically announced on Valentine’s Day, and the withdrawal of its plans to build HQ2 in Long Island City. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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When I realized I needed to buy a pair of spinning shoes for a spin class three days later, I went to Google to find articles on the latest and greatest styles, and then to Amazon to read reviews and make my purchase. It was also a look, maybe for the first time for some, at what was then a real innovation in shopping.