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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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Older adults tend to own, while younger adults skew much more heavily toward renting – particularly millennials, for whom homeownership is lower than other generations at the same point in their lives. 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. What is Nuns and Nones?

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

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And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud

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According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), profits among the world’s corporate banking institutions is significantly declining – but digitization could halt that trend. Researchers found that just 17 percent of retail banks rated their digital transformation strategies as “optimal.”

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

CB Insights

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. According to Media and Services UX, (MSX) group at Strategy Analytics, three-quarters of mobile payment users in China do so in physical stores daily.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications.

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