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MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest ... | April 13, 2020

The CARES Act created a $350 billion program to make emergency loans to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus crisis, designed to help these companies continue to pay workers and cover their rent or mortgage payments. This is officially known as the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Since the program's introduction, major banks and regional financial institutions have approved billions' worth of these loans. However, the major fintech companies had been left on the sidelines. N...

SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS

HRB Tax Group, Inc. | October 14, 2021

H&R Block today announced the launch of a free, new online business course for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners, as part of Kauffman FastTrac®. Taught by Block Advisors small business tax professionals, up to 60 initial participants will learn information, tips, exercises, and tools to help think about their business idea before it is brought to life. The four free online entrepreneurship course offerings will run Nov. 1, 2021 through Jan. 3, 2022 and are a...

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Grant Thornton LLP | October 13, 2021

Leading Canadian accounting and business advisory firm, Grant Thornton LLP, is pleased to announce the launch of Business Boost, in partnership with the global small business platform Xero. The Business Boost program will empower up to five women-owned small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to realize their potential with Grant Thornton's experience and Xero's cloud accounting technology. Women are important to the success of the Canadian economy and are critical for th...

TECHNOLOGY

Quartile | December 14, 2021

Quartile, the leading ad optimization platform for top e-commerce marketplace sellers, today announced it has acquired Sidecar, a performance marketing technology provider for e-commerce retailers and brands that works across all major advertising platforms, including Google, Microsoft Bing, Facebook, Instagram, and Amazon. The two companies will combine under the Quartile name, growing the brand into the world’s largest cross-channel e-commerce advertising platform. Both pl...