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Small Business Trends | May 29, 2018

GIFs, short bite-sized animated image files, are everywhere these days, dominating social media and the internet, in general. These fun, short files are animated by combining a series of images into an encoded graphics interchange format (GIF).GIFs are used widely online as a means of conveying a reaction, illustrating a point or explaining a concept. Reaction GIFs on social chats are one area where these files are proving to be particularly popular....

nytimes | February 12, 2019

Small businesses may be able to receive a big tax break this year, thanks to the new rules. They also may face a big headache: figuring out whether the tax break applies to them. The problem is that a centerpiece of the legislation is a write-off for “qualified business income,” but it’s unclear whether certain activities count. That is sowing confusion as the April deadline for filing the first returns under the law approaches. “Parts of the law were not well thought out...

Sentinelandenterprise.com | January 13, 2020

Bay Colony Development Corp., a Waltham-based company, presented a $10,000 check to NewVue Communities on Thursday to boost the organization’s efforts to support local small businesses, said Executive Director Marc Dohan. Dohan said the money will support the NewVue Communities Small Business Technical Assistance Program, which aims to help businesses in the region. “This funding will help NewVue assist more small businesses in the area and allow us to reach out to different types of...

Minutehack | January 13, 2020

Most owners of small businesses are wary about sharing their data electronically, holding back the rollout of open banking which makes it easier to manage their money. Fewer than one in seven business owners questioned by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said they were sharing the details of their business bank accounts with third parties. It means that most businesses are not getting the benefits of open banking, which puts invoice, cash flow, payroll, utilities and tax data all in the ...