Remove Management Remove Massachusetts Remove Millennials Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That

PYMNTS

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for the fainthearted. All this new revenue is going from the cities where most millennials live to the countryside,” he said. An Idea is Born.

article thumbnail

8 Connected-Economy Firms Expected To Light Up The IPO Market In 2021

PYMNTS

Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. Online games platform Roblox recently pushed its planned initial public offering from 2020 to 2021 after Airbnb and DoorDash’s big first-day pops convinced management that an overheated IPO would mostly benefit speculators.

Marketing 198
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Ripple Effects: Mobile Payments Are Just The Beginning

PYMNTS

Technology is taking us to a world where we never have to leave our homes. Rather than build a new warehouse or rely on tried-and-tested technologies for picking products off shelves, Target decided to try a “new breed of robots.”. That the technology will change distribution is certain. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

Mobile 100
article thumbnail

This Week In Insurance Tech: Policygenius Raises $100M, Lemonade Enters Pet Insurance, Nationwide Expands Digital Footprint

CB Insights

Boost Insurance , a New York-based B2B digital insurance platform, raised a $14M Series A led by Coatue Management, and Conversion Capital. Coalition , a San Francisco-based digital cyber insurance managing general agent (MGA), acquired BinaryEdge , a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, for an undisclosed amount. . PARTNERSHIPS.

article thumbnail

Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

PYMNTS

Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said. “People are living in all different places.

Retail 100
article thumbnail

The Dawn of Banking Voice Technology

PYMNTS

That, as it turns out, was the good old days of voice technology assistance. Today the incorporation of voice technology into daily activities runs the gamut, from taking music requests on-demand to ordering from Amazon to typing your texts for you. to roll out a voice technology offering. The response thus far? Phenomenal.

article thumbnail

A Look at the Savings Tech Horizon: Standalone, Automated Savings

Fintech Labs Insights

This is part two of a six part blog series about savings technology. Yesterday we discussed what savings technology looks like in goals-based PFM platforms. Since that time, a few other competitors have launched and are beginning to build steam with their Millennial user base. Standalone, automated savings.