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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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Banks and legacy financial institutions (FIs) might be wise to study what disruptive technologies recently did to the print publishing industry, taxi cabs, network TV, and a host of other businesses that were disintermediated with little to no warning in recent years. And in surveys at least, they don’t exhibit much loyalty to FIs.

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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays

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Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it.

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Banks Must Up Their Social Media Game to Connect with Digital Natives

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Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. population will soon be comprised of what’s known as “digital natives,” those born after 1989 who have lived their whole lives immersed in technology.

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce

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That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. According to VentureBeat , Google has “rolled out a series of updates to google.com/travel , its one-stop itinerary planner on the web. Contextual Commerce. I’m happily surprised.”. Travel Trends.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology. And new technology is in the works to help welcome them to the AR world: In October, it was reported that a Facebook executive said the company is developing augmented reality glasses.

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What The Trendsetters Say About How We Will Pay Next Decade

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Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future.

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Live Christmas Tree Industry Uses Digital To Beat Back Artificial Rivals

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No matter what, though, the present and future of real Christmas trees — even if bought in a weekend frenzy — owes much to digital technology, eCommerce and the consumer preferences of younger buyers. That is helpful especially for “millennial and Generation Xers,” he said. An longstanding adage — cliché? Christmas Tree Farmers.

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