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Millennials in Motion

NCR

More worrisome are the kids who can’t remember a time before social media. Turns out that was just a preview: Another Facebook executive, EMEA operations chief Nicola Mendelsohn, recently predicted that within five years Facebook “will be definitely mobile, [and] it will be probably all video.”. Has it really been that long?

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

PYMNTS

The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction. billion in Q1 2017 — tackles feelings of financial discomfort by giving consumers a more engaging option to settle debts, by mixing social media with finances.

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Despite Papyrus’ Closing, Stationery Retail Is Not All Doom-And-Gloom

PYMNTS

The first Papyrus store opened in 1973, when cursive writing was a core part of grade-school education, much to the delight of many nostalgists but which still can spark memories of horror among those of us cursed with atrocious handwriting. Millennials to the Rescue. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations.

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Live Christmas Tree Industry Uses Digital To Beat Back Artificial Rivals

PYMNTS

A big part of those online sales is the ability of eCommerce operators to deliver those products to buyers in short order to customers — 10 days or less after being cut seems to be a typical time frame, one that’s obtainable and repeatable thanks in large part to the logistical advances made or inspired by Amazon in recent years.

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Bank Marketing AI – Our 14 Favorite Applications That Will Change Your Bank

South State Correspondent

The benefits of the industrial revolution accrued to shareholders, management, and workers that could be trained to become operators. Bank marketers that start training now will become AI operators in the very near future -measured in days, not years. No coding is required, and design principles are built in.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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