Small Business

November 13, 2017 

Even as new apartment completions bring more supply to markets, the multifamily sector will likely see a vacancy rate remain steady, with rent rising slowly at 3 percent per year. Supported by the ongoing stretch of outstanding job creation since 2010 ...

November 7, 2017 

Intuit Inc. has launched QuickBooks Capital, a lending product that helps small businesses get the capital they need to succeed. Building on Intuit’s long history of using leading edge data science and machine learning, QuickBooks Capital has ...

November 6, 2017 

Lack of adoption for electronic payments in B2B transactions is still a widespread problem. With 50 percent of businesses still using paper checks as their primary mode of payment, the inefficient paper processes maintained by accounting professionals ...

November 1, 2017 

Modern businesses with high growth targets no longer use the slow-build “brick and mortar” approach, instead they’re built from the ground up with digital and global operations in mind. The phenomenon began with ecommerce and adtech - essentially the ...

November 1, 2017 

Capital One Financial Corporation has announced an agreement with Intuit Inc. allowing Capital One customers who use Intuit’s suite of services including QuickBooks Online, Mint, and TurboTax, to securely import their financial data without sharing ...

October 31, 2017 

One in three victims spent at least $50,000 to recover from a cyber attack, yet rebuilding reputation and customer trust can take more than a year.

October 31, 2017 

Demand for financing is down across the board among all size businesses. Financing for planned growth or expansion, including acquisitions not yet realized was down from 66 percent in Q2 2017 to 62 percent in Q3 2017.

October 30, 2017 

Annual worldwide corporate R&D spending broke through $700bn in annual investment, according to an annual analysis of R&D spending across 1000 global public companies by PwC’s Strategy&. It shows corporate R&D spending increased a steady 3% in the past year, bouncing back from less than 1% increase previously. However, in a global survey with 562...…

October 30, 2017 

With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, consumers say they will spend an average $967.13 this year, according to the annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics for the National Retail Federation and released today.

October 30, 2017 

The most important amendment raises the threshold for the SBA’s Quick Bond Application for contract surety bonds that small construction businesses can benefit from. The increase in the eligible contract amount enlarges the scope of project ...

October 25, 2017 

Entrepreneurs go in business for a number of reasons, and you would be hard pressed to find retirement benefits to be one of them. Yet ask employees about why they chose or stick with a job, and benefits, including retirement, are often listed.

Harold Fox

October 23, 2017 

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of veterans say there's never been a better time to own a small business. And while the numbers are high among all small business owners — 64 percent say the best time to own a business is now and 92 percent report ...