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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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Uber Of X: The Speed Stable, Motorcycles On-Demand

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Sharp spoke to PYMNTS about the impetus of the business, as well as some bumps in the road, and whether millennials or baby boomers are the first to hit the road on the motorcycle sharing economy. So, over a couple of incarnations, we finally arrived at another addition of “Why don’t we turn this into technology-based as well?”

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Bitcoin Tracker: Easy Access Is ‘Easier’ With ATMS & Gift Cards

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Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend. But other research says to forget millennials and focus on ourselves, as many of us enjoy buying eGift cards for me, myself and I — and, sometimes, you. But maybe ATMs won’t indeed be the way that people access bitcoin.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. Dining out.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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Tech Center: Microsoft In Montreal, Puerto Rico’s Entrepreneurism

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It looks as though Montreal, Canada’s robust AI community has left a good impression on tech giant Microsoft. Microsoft is excited to engage with faculties, students and the broader tech community in Montreal, which is becoming a global hub for AI research and innovation,” Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said in a statement.