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

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You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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Think of access to reliable internet service, perhaps, as roughly similar to access to reliable and secure financial services — without both, the larger worlds of payment and commerce can indeed suffer. “In communities. Expensive Cities.

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How Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals

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Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Coon noted that putting the apartment applications online helps make the process more secure. That certainly isn’t secure.”. Why, then, does the rent check endure?

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

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Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. ” What a breach of etiquette to call out the retail security industry — however necessary it is.

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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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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. More than 45 percent of the digitally-savvy 30- to 40-year-olds — which we call the bridge millennials with spending power — say that, too.

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