Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how many new people they will hire. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, some of the business owners are responding to signs...
Small business owner optimism is slipping, according to a report from the AP, and economists are predicting a slowdown in economic spending in the latter part of the year. Part of the reason for the potential slowdown is that taxpayers won’t be getting the boost...
From hardware to software, from cash registers to digital wallets, the way commerce is done at smaller firms (SMBs) is changing, especially as mobile makes inroads into the way we pay. In an interview that springboarded the findings of the Retail Innovation Readiness Index, published...
With the federal government in a partial shutdown, around 30 million small businesses will likely be impacted. The shutdown is the result of the Trump administration and Congress failing to reach a funding agreement that includes more than $5 billion the President wants to build...
During the holiday shopping season, countless consumers will use digital payments and commerce technology to buy gifts from distant companies — some overseas, some just in neighboring time zones — and have them shipped seamlessly to their destinations. But the same technology that enables those...
Veterans Day is Nov.11 in the U.S. — a day set aside each year since 1954 to honor all those who have served in the military. There are roughly 26 million veterans in the U.S. today and, each year, about 1 percent of those eligible for service enlist. First...
It stands as one of the most famous economic programs in U.S. history, and it helped created modern middle-class consumer culture — the same culture that many observers now worry is on its way out. Enacted in 1944, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act — you likely know...
Business lending in Australia probably won’t face tougher loan regulation when it comes to small business loans. “The evidence and submissions provided to the commission did not reveal any great appetite to change the legal framework,” Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said in his interim report, according...
It is no secret that small businesses have been grappling with late payments across the European Union. To add to that, a report this week from the U.K.’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) found that, even in the wake of the Late Payment Directive in 2013...
