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Home Lenders Woo Millennials With Student Loan Assistance

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introduced a program under which it will pay off a significant amount of the student loan of a borrower who purchases a home from Miami-based Lennar. Housing market experts predicted that other builders are likely to unveil similar programs to attract more first-time buyers.

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Nestlé Expands Into Coffee Market, Acquires Blue Bottle

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Meanwhile, Blue Bottle, founded in the early 2000s, is currently expanding in California, New York, Washington, Miami and Tokyo, bringing its total retail presence to more than 50 locations by the end of the year. Despite Nestlé’s majority stake, Blue Bottle will retain autonomy within the enterprise.

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NCR’s D3 Combines With Nymbus To Enable Banks’ Digital Offerings

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Miami-based NYMBUS announced the licensing of NCR’s D3 Digital Banking platform (D3) to give financial institutions the opportunity to quickly offer customers new brands, the FinTech announced in a press release on Monday (Oct. NYMBUS, a provider of cloud-based core technology for financial institutions, was founded by Scott Killoh in 2015.

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Nike Commits To Sustainability For High-Tech Tokyo Olympics

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To match the scale of the Nike effort, marketing and tech updates are important. Nike’s competitors haven’t yet introduced entire new lines, but they have focused on sustainability in marketing and product development. percent of the market in 2018, up from 14.3 Most importantly, products marketed as sustainable grew 5.6

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Outdoorsy On Adventure Travelers, Driveway Surfers And Trying To Be The Airbnb For RVs

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At the time, Craigslist was the only real market for rentals. On the other side of the market, Cavins noted that there are more than 18 million registered RVs. In such a case, the traveler might land in Miami and take a taxi to the RV owner, who will show the borrower how to use systems like the generator. “We

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Oh, Baby: The Sharing Economy Comes To Childcare Equipment

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Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. and Canada, with 250 trusted partners (independent contractors and mom-and-pop stores) providing gear in those markets.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market. But the similarities end there.

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