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Why Pride Vendors Are Forgoing Cash For mPOS

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This year’s parades and festivals carry special significance as they mark the 50th anniversary of New York City’s Stonewall Riots. Patrons and neighbors of the Stonewall Inn gay bar resisted an aggressive police raid in 1969, kicking off a new phase of political activism for LGBTQ rights in the process.

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

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That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. Government Efforts.

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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.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Matchmaking Millennials To The Experiences They Desire

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While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. Many consumer businesses operate with very high fixed costs and oftentimes have excess capacity to fill, he explained. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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The news from the U.K. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4 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.

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