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What Quibi’s Flameout Teaches Us about Behavior Change

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The mobile TV platform seemed to have it all. Last week mobile TV platform Quibi announced plans to shut down operations, just seven months after a promising debut. Making matters worse, early versions of Quibi offered no way for users to share content with friends, stymieing growth on social media.

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Why Instagram’s New Shopping Icon Is Changing Ecommerce Forever

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Here’s why: Traditionally users weren’t able to purchase items through social media platforms. Social influencers could promote brands through their channels and direct users to “swipe up” or click a link in their bio to purchase.

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Mobile Ordering, The New Window To Winning Over Millennial Consumers

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To win them over, many restaurants are betting that millennials prefer their meals with a side of technology — and it seems to be a safe bet. Cowboy Chicken, a Dallas-based chicken chain, is one of the 66 percent of surveyed restaurants that either have installed their own mobile app technology or are considering doing so.

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Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

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In the August edition of the Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook , PYMNTS examines how marketplaces are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile payments to innovate the customer experience. To learn more about how thredUP is using AI to compete, visit the Playbook’s case study.

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How Unattended Retail Sells Loyalty

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Retailers put together window displays and signs to create enticing storefronts, engage customers via social media and send printed ads through the mail. There’s a lot of complementary technologies that are being offered today that can be incorporated into the whole self-serve or unattended retail system,” he said.

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In Digital Banking Age, Personal Touch Still Matters

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Technology has brought transparency and speed to financial interactions, including those between banks and their customers. But must everything be at arm’s length, a technology-enabled hit-and-run where banking is ruled by apps and apps alone?

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

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Consumers want what they want, when they want it, and digital technology in recent years has more than facilitated it. Among the more popular players in the P2P space is Venmo, a mobile payment platform owned by PayPal. Users can also select an emoticon to indicate the purpose of the request.