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Toronto Sun | January 14, 2020

Paying for goods and services with plastic seems to be the most convenient thing to do nowadays, but only 5% of small business have stopped taking cash, according to a Bank of Canada study. The study, entitled Merchant Acceptance Survey, noted futuristic forecasts of a cashless world seem to be overblown. “We estimate that only 5% of merchants currently do not accept cash, and an additional 8% plan to stop accepting cash within the next five years,” the study stated, as reported by B...

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CEDIA | November 06, 2020

Today, CEDIA announces the launch of CEDIA Propel, an affinity program designed to connect members to new brands and products in emerging categories. CEDIA’s integrator members will receive preferential pricing and product training across all brands enrolled in Propel. The Propel program will enable current CEDIA manufacturer members to drive adoption of their most innovative products and services, while also attracting new brands to the CI channel. Propel is open to all manufacturer membe...

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Scylla | September 08, 2021

Scylla, the leading real-time physical threat detection solution, has launched Scylla Asteria, a smart edge device that makes home and small business security more accessible for everyone. Scylla Asteria features a compact, low power consumption edge device that will help customers filter out up to 99% of non-actionable events and enable powerful motion detection for video management systems and cameras that lack this functionality. This will help users see only validated and acti...

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Opportunity Fund | January 07, 2021

Opportunity Fund, the nation's leading nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) to small businesses, today declared partnerships with Meriwest Credit Union, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, and UMe Credit Union, part of the nonprofit lenders' $1 Billion obligation to investing in minimized businesses nationwide in the following two years. These partnerships increase small business owners' access to transparent, reasonable credit — especially among businesses ...