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Nordstrom Tempts Millennials With Snapchat Presence

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The project revolved around a competition between five colleges — the University of South Carolina, the University of Oregon, the University of Arizona, Florida State University and UCLA — competing for votes from a general audience on which school could snap the most interesting picture of their college’s name.

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Grocery Tracker: Discount Games

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Lidl reportedly plans to open as many as 100 locations across the East Coast by mid-2018, starting with 20 stores located in North and South Carolina, as well as Virginia. Lidl already operates in 27 countries worldwide with around 10,000 locations to its name. supermarket like Kroger. The grocery chain has opened a U.S.

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Turning Restaurant Payments Invisible

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Milici noted that hearing Tony Fadell, one of the visionaries behind Apple’s iPod and iPhone, speak at this year’s Innovation Project really stuck with him, because Fadell explained that when starting a business, there’s 50 percent emotion and 50 percent logical/rational drive toward translating an idea into a functional, operational business.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running. The equipment was expensive and companies lacked the in-house expertise required to operate it. Source: Oxford Medical Simulation. Real estate agents have been relying on virtual tours to continue showing properties. Some experts, however, aren’t so sure.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

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Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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