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Popular Millennial Site Bleacher Report Dives Deep Into Sports Betting

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Bleacher Report, a millennial-focused sports website, has been steadily expanding into the sports betting space, attracting a new generation of gamblers who don’t consider sports gambling a bad thing, according to a report by CNBC. There are currently about eight states that have legal sports betting , and that number is expected to increase.

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Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers

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They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Approximately 70 percent of guests use Pay Less Upfront when it is available, Shrauger noted.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

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It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms.

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Millennials Reluctant To Give Personal Data, Businesses Depend On It

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Between the Instagram selfies, Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts, millennials seem to overshare. Their life is an open book on social media, and even the tiniest of details are never too much to provide. Millennials expect technology to intelligently know who they are, with any investigative work done on the back end.

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AI’s Place In The $50B RV Market

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Technology and social media company Facebook is also growing more involved in the sharing economy. Why Travel Firms Need To Cater To Millennial Payment Preferences. Millennials have a different take on travel than previous generations.

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Father’s Day, Commerce And The New Millennial Dad

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Children buy their fathers things like books and auto parts that don’t tend to show up so often on Mother’s Day, but it doesn’t quite cover the gap. In fact, recent data from Mintel indicates that millennial dads could be the future of retail. And those are very high spend categories; collectively they accounted for $6.6

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Standard International Launches Recommendations App

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Described as “the first social travel agency,” Benny (from the phrase “friends with benefits”) would allow people to recommend rooms to friends at the best rate, while also earning a commission. “We Lalvani said most of the firm’s expansion will be in Asia , where 60 percent of the world’s millennials are based.