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To Reap Digital Gold Look for Kludge, Hope for Inspiration
David S. Evans // October 25, 2023

If you want to come up with the next big thing for digital transformation, you shouldn’t wait around for inspiration. Maybe the apple falling from the tree really did inspire Isaac Newton to develop his theory of gravity. In more recent times, it is harder to know...

Alibaba Adds Smart Assistant and Upgraded Image Search to B2B Platform
Commercial Payments // September 07, 2023

Alibaba.com has added enhancements to its global B2B eCommerce platform to help small business owners level up their sourcing and supply chain operations. “We are making the sourcing journey more intuitive and visualizable by helping enterprises of all sizes better utilize today’s leading eCommerce technologies,” Stephen...

Numarics Raises €10.2 Million to Offer Small Businesses All-in-One Digital CFO Solution
Back-office // July 06, 2023

Swiss FinTech startup Numarics has raised €10 million ($10.9 million) in a seed funding round, offering small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a digital CFO solution to streamline their administration processes. The seed investment, co-led by UBS Next and FiveT Fintech (formerly Avaloq Ventures), will also...

ByteDance Chasing WeChat in the Super-App Race With Douyin
Connected Economy // June 14, 2023

ByteDance, the parent company of popular social media app TikTok, is on a mission to become China’s next “everything app” to rival the success of WeChat by Tencent.  With most of its $80 billion annual revenue coming from social media ad revenue, ByteDance has been testing its Douyin app,...

Interviews & Exclusives
With NFT Creators Program, Visa Is Building a Community of Artist-Entrepreneurs

April 01, 2022
The Visa Creator Program is a lot of things, according to Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto for the credit card and payments giant. It’s a mentorship program. It’s a way of helping people support their art, music and filmmaking skills. It’s a way of bringing the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to creators — assisting […]

Visa Partnerships Level The Female Founder Funding Field

March 04, 2020
On Sunday, the world will celebrate International Women’s Day for the 45th time as a global community since the U.N. first declared the global observance in 1975. In 1977, the event...

One-Stop Digital Procure-To-Pay For One-Person Shops

April 05, 2019
While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a...

Building A Better Lending Model To Serve SMBs Who Served

February 06, 2018
According to the Small Business Administration, of the 28 million U.S. SMBs, roughly 2.5 million, or 9.1 percent, are owned by veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Those firms, according to the same...

Quick Reads
Klarpay Debuts Accounts Designed for Entrepreneur Customers

February 27, 2024
Swiss financial institution Klarpay has debuted a financial solution for entrepreneurs. The company’s Entrepreneur Accounts are designed for business founders, ultimate beneficial owners and senior managers who are already Klarpay customers, the firm announced in a Tuesday (Feb. 27) news release. “Klarpay’s Entrepreneur Accounts provide a comprehensive array of exclusive benefits designed to help entrepreneurs […]

Alibaba Adds Smart Assistant and Upgraded Image Search to B2B Platform

September 07, 2023
Alibaba.com has added enhancements to its global B2B eCommerce platform to help small business owners level up their sourcing and supply chain operations. “We are making the sourcing journey more intuitive...

Numarics Raises €10.2 Million to Offer Small Businesses All-in-One Digital CFO Solution

July 06, 2023
Swiss FinTech startup Numarics has raised €10 million ($10.9 million) in a seed funding round, offering small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a digital CFO solution to streamline their administration processes....

ByteDance Chasing WeChat in the Super-App Race With Douyin

June 14, 2023
ByteDance, the parent company of popular social media app TikTok, is on a mission to become China’s next “everything app” to rival the success of WeChat by Tencent.  With most of its $80...