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McDonald’s Will Open 200 Restaurants In Nordic Region

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McDonald’s will open 200 restaurants in the Nordic region over the next 10 years, as well as begin home deliveries this year in an attempt to take on rivals, such as Taco Bell and Yum! McDonald’s currently serves 150 million customers each year in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland from its estimated 430 restaurants in the region.

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Starbucks Hits 16.3M Mobile Users, Eyes Expanded Delivery

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Overall, sales were up 3 percent, and transactions were up 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. This result was driven by leveraging our increased digital reach, as well as a more seamless customer onboarding experience, greater mobile-order and pay adoption, and enhanced personalization features.

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60 Percent Of Americans Want The Branch, Not Mobile, To Open New Account

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While mobile banking has its perks, a new survey has found that 60 percent of Americans prefer opening a new checking account in-person at a bank branch. cut 22 percent and Regions Financial Corp. According to Reuters , the survey, conducted by consulting firm Novantas, also found that half of U.S. cut 12 percent.

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‘Google Checking,’ T-Mobile Data Breach Top This Week’s News

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We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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Digital payments on the rise in India – what does this mean for the region?

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At the moment, some parts of this region are still heavily cash dependent, with research from McKinsey and Capgemini suggesting just two per cent of transactions in emerging nations of Asia-Pacific were cashless last year – though this rises to 35 per cent in developed countries. Mobile bridging the gap. With more than 1.3

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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A new report shows that 70 percent of Americans use their mobile devices and restaurant apps at some point during the dining journey. Using a laptop or mobile phone, anyone, anywhere, is just a few clicks away from having their favorite meal delivered to wherever they happen to be. But the reviews for dining apps aren’t so clean.

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Grubhub Acquires LevelUp

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Turns out the online and mobile food ordering business has some hefty tailwinds in place. DeWitt stated on the call that LevelUp, a seven-year-old firm based in Boston, serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. million users, up from 9.2

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