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Millennials Will Lead The Voice Commerce Revolution

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For example, 76 percent of consumers reported making purchases during at least one of their daily routine activities, whether eating breakfast, commuting to work or sitting at their desks in the office. That’s especially true for bridge millennials, those 32- to 42-year-olds, entering the prime time of their spending years.

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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

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San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The Founder and CEO of Nubank David Velez also participated in the funding round.

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Deep Dive: Keeping Up With Bridge Millennials’ Retail Impact

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Bridge millennials’ rise is changing the retail ecosystem ahead of the 2019 holiday season, but their impacts will continue to be felt in the year ahead. Bridge millennials are consumers aged 30 to 40 whose shopping and financial preferences straddle Gen X and millennial demographics.

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Accounts Of Millennial Sobriety May Be Oversold

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Have millennials started starving a segment of commerce in a socially positive way? Added to the list of things millennials are killing — along with homeownership, the institution of marriage and diamond jewelry — is apparently alcohol. Folks in the millennial generation have maybe a better sense of balance. Data from U.S.

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Airbnb: How To Win The $1.4T Battle For Millennials

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For example, studies show that one in every five millennials would abandon travel booking processes if their preferred payment method was not offered. Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers. Visit the Playbook’s feature story to find out how Airbnb is prioritizing payments for millennial loyalty.

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Report: How Faster Disbursements Can Woo Millennial Investors

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It also analyzes why younger investors like millennials have remained reticent to invest and how the health crisis could affect this generation’s spending and saving habits, especially as legacy disbursement methods such as paper checks continue to fall out of favor. Millennials have been hit especially hard, with one study finding that 5.6

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How Pilot Is Innovating Corporate Taxes For Millennial-Run Businesses

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Recent research finds that 67 percent of millennial business owners operate independent companies rather than franchises. Recent research finds that 67 percent of millennial business owners operate independent companies rather than franchises. Proper tax education is critical to any business’s future, Daher said.