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AZ Big Media: Home | January 29, 2020

Scottsdale-based GoDaddy Inc., the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Over, the company behind the popular Over app that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses grow their brands by easily creating impactful visual content for any platform online. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The Over app enables anyone to create inspiring content quickly on a mobile phone for Facebook, Instagram, Twitte...

Benzinga | March 05, 2020

Be aware of the malicious work e-mail. The new message in your inbox, seemingly from your boss or human resources, is actually the most common way hackers gain access to small business networks and potentially sensitive client data. Ensuring that your business is protected against ransomware attacks has rapidly grown from being an amenity to a necessity. In 2019, 43% of cyberattacks were aimed at small businesses. And in an equally unsettling statistic, a research survey conducted by insurance c...

FINANCE

Novo | January 12, 2022

Novo reported that it has raised $90 million in Series B fundraising at a valuation of $700 million. Novo is a banking platform for small businesses. Stripes led the investment, with current investors Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup continuing to participate. Novo's total funding to date exceeds $135 million. Michel Rangel, CEO, and co-founder of Novo, stated, "With this additional funding, Novo will take a huge leap forward in improving...

IMPACT

H&R Block | February 24, 2022

H&R Block announces its third consecutive year of partnership with Nextdoor to find and execute 10 community improvement projects through Block's Make Every Block Better community impact platform. Now through March 31, people can nominate their neighborhood for a project that helps improve the places and spaces where neighborhoods convene. The call for community improvement projects supports neighborhoods and involves small businesses, ultimately positively impacting milli...