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This Week’s Reads: Emoji Passwords, Millennials, Bank Branches

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Articles via TheStreet, Miami Today News, The Financial Brand. World emoji day: How emoji passwords will obliterate PINs and make bank accounts safer: While a recent report found that 64% of millennials regularly community using only emoji , that doesn’t mean everyone is ready to communicate with their banks using emoji.

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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.

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QSRs Battle For US Sales With Online Delivery And Payments

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billion in domestic sales — To expand its delivery reach, Taco Bell — along with KFC — has recently tapped Grubhub to provide delivery and online ordering. They’ve done a good job of connecting with the millennials and Gen Z.”. Taco Bell’s $9.8 Burger King’s $9.3

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Nike Commits To Sustainability For High-Tech Tokyo Olympics

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In the retail arena, sporting goods online and offline have been decimated over the past two years by the D2C efforts of the Nikes of the world, as well as deep discounts from Target, Walmart and Amazon. Adidas, for example, has funded a sustainable turf field at South Florida’s Miami Edison High School composed of approximately 1.8

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

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Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments. Taking a page out of the copy book of the London Tube, where contactless payments have skyrocketed, the Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works has signed a $33 million contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to install contactless and mobile payments.

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Charting A Sharing Economy Course For Boat Rentals

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To make a reservation, users can type in the place where they want to rent a boat (say, Miami) and can select the boat of her choice based on boat length, type, reviews, where they want to be picked up and what activity they want (water sports? If a user is not an experienced boater, for instance, she can have a captain. sandbar hopping?).

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Just _ Me: Venmo Launches New Branding Campaign

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Bikinis can’t hold wallets,” reads a billboard in Miami. “ _ for drinks instead.”. Venmo has established such a niche in millennial culture that, somewhere along the way, it organically rooted itself into their vernacular as a verb, the same way that people now use “Google it” or “Facebook me” as verbs. Let’s not make it awkward.

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