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Coachella’s Contextual Commerce: The Good, The Bad And The Flower Crown Ugly

PYMNTS

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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Seeking Banking Balance Between Physical And Digital

PYMNTS

But, while closing physical bank branches might appear to be a wise cost-saving measure, the move comes with risks that could hurt banks’ relations with new millennial customers. With mobile banking technology on the rise, it has seemingly become more important than ever for banks to stay on top of the latest digital innovations.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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Serving payments customers in the age of instant gratification

Insights on Business

On a recent visit to my local coffee shop, I realized how uphill a task this can be with millennials and Generation Z patrons who are joining the ranks of coffee aficionados. The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Automatic food: Cafe X (San Francisco). The weeknight bar: School Night (San Francisco).

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The Beauty Tech Revolution: The Startups, Investors, Products And Tech Reshaping Personal Care

CB Insights

This post will dive into innovation across beauty and grooming, focusing on the following areas: Startup investment trends. San Francisco-based Yes To , which sells skin and hair products based on fruits and vegetables, raised a $56M Series B in June from Viking Global Investors. Beauty media platform and subscription service.

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Fintech Trending: Bots Break Out, AI Gets Personal, and Blockchain Buys the Farm

Fintech Labs Insights

We can even include companies like Clinc ( F16 ) in this category of innovations that make it easier for people to communicate with technology. ” – Bank Innovation. “MX Achieves Innovation Milestone, Becomes First Company to Win Finovate Best of Show Six Times” – MX Blog. In other news.