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Square | September 28, 2021

Square announced the launch of Square Card in Canada to address one of the biggest challenges small businesses face: managing their cash flow. The announcement marks a milestone in Square’s goal of expanding financial access in Canada — its second largest international market — and better positions the company to serve the needs of business owners across the country. “We’ve heard, time and time again, that cash flow is a major pain point for C...

TECHNOLOGY

CyberSaint | January 14, 2022

CyberSaint announced a new CyberBase platform. CyberSaint is the developer of the industry's top platform for automating cyber risk management. CyberBase is an automated platform that enables enterprises to comply with DFARS and CMMC regulations, as well as the NIST Ransomware Risk Management Framework. CyberBase's proprietary continuous control automation enables companies to spend less time and money preparing for audits, complying with regulations, and mitigating cyber risk. Read More

Reuters | May 26, 2020

When the U.S. government first rolled out forgivable loans to small businesses in early April under the Paycheck Protection Program, loan officers at Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas worked nights and weekends to process a tsunami of applications. But since those first few frantic weeks, demand has “just dried up,” said bank president Cindy Blankenship. On May 15 the bank stopped taking applications for PPP loans. Nationally the program remains active. But data from the Small Bus...

TECHNOLOGY

Smith.ai | November 17, 2021

Smith.ai, a leading virtual receptionist service, announced today the launch of new business intelligence (BI) tools to help businesses track and analyze phone call metadata. Smith.ai clients will now be able to view data obtained from phone calls in their own Call Dashboard in the form of graphs, pie charts, and tables, giving them a simple, intuitive way to evaluate the impact phone calls have on their business. The new dashboard features make it easy for clients to visualize who called, for w...