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IOL | February 28, 2020

Small business has welcomed the Budget, saying the marginal relief from tax increases and the changes to the electricity regulatory framework were positive. Pieter Bensch, the executive vice-president for Africa and the Middle East at Sage, said Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget speech offered small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) reason to feel both relief, due to the lack of growth-dampening tax increases, and cautious optimism about the prospects for economic recovery over the ...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

NerdWallet | November 03, 2020

Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in ...

Business Wire | March 06, 2020

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (“SBEI”) reported reasonably flat hiring in February, with a seasonally adjusted decline of 0.39%. The CBIZ SBEI tracks payroll and hiring trends for over 3,500 companies that have 300 or fewer employees, providing broad insight into small business trends. The February 2020 data reflects a historical trend for the month’s numbers over the last 10 years, with winter weather typically contributing to a slowdown in economic activity. This y...

TECHNOLOGY

BigCommerce | March 15, 2022

BigCommerce announced a partnership with Bolt. BigCommerce is a leading Open SaaS eCommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands. While Bolt is a leading checkout and shopper network company. The partnership will now offer a brand new way for small-medium- and enterprise-sized BigCommerce merchants to set up Bolt One-Click Checkout in a self-serve manner within minutes. In addition, Bolt can be integrated into merchants' BigCommerce stores, enabling them to provide safe, one-clic...