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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.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? They can be a strategic shift of your franchise, a new product line, or a new operating environment. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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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. In addition to operating some 1,500 U.S. It’s the first health-insurance-focused InsurTech to move toward an IPO as newcomers try to disrupt the massive medical coverage industry by using technology.

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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.

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From ACH To IoT: Looking Back On A Year Of Trackers

PYMNTS

It was a busy year throughout the world of payments, with plenty of new technology making headlines along the way. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. Chime also makes an effort to reach millennials where they already shop.

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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. The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. Dining out.

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24 Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down

CB Insights

Instead, telematics technology — the use of telecommunications to facilitate communication and gather data from vehicles — will allow taxi and trucking companies to manage their self-driving fleets so that they provide services and run their routes with optimal efficiency. Professional drivers and trucking . Ride-hailing. Urban Planning.