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Post-Bulletin | January 15, 2020

SCORE’s Acting CEO, Bridget Weston, shared her message to small businesses last week by looking back at last year and looking forward to 2020. She summarized: "By all accounts, the economy did well in 2019, and it continues to hum along at a decent pace in early 2020. GDP growth, unemployment, core inflation and manufacturing all moved in encouraging directions in 2019, and for most small businesses, that’s been good news for their bottom line. But while the economy remains stro...

Cision PR Newswire | September 11, 2020

ZeBrand is a complete DIY branding platform that uses algorithmic logic to create complete brand strategies and generate brand designs and identities for emerging businesses. The service aims to make branding more accessible than ever and is efficient, simple, and cost-effective. Companies are guided by the service as they refine and distill their thinking about who their target customer is, their vision, brand story, and messaging. ZeBrand's artificial intelligence then gathers this informa...

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UTP | August 30, 2021

UTP, a credit and debit card payment solutions provider, is launching a new eBook for SMEs, offering advice on future-proof their businesses. The eBook entitled ‘Never Going Back: How SMEs can future-proof for post-pandemic success’ explains how a secure, fast, and smart payments infrastructure can help SMEs become more resilient and adaptable to events such as natural disasters and trade restrictions. It is fundamental changes to how we shop that inspired UTP Group to...

ZDNet | February 21, 2020

PayPal has provided AU$500 million to 7,000 businesses in Australia since it launched a working capital offering less than five years ago alongside Citi. "We can see that there is an ongoing demand for alternative finance solutions to support small businesses and help them thrive," PayPal said in its submission [PDF] to the Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. PayPal considers "information asymmetries" having previously been a "tremendous&q...