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

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Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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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.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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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

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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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Getting Mobile Ready

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Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

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At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services. payments networks were undermining public confidence in payments technologies, U.S. Digital Currency – Millennials Just Aren’t That Into You.

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