For Facebook, it would seem that ramping up its Buy button and Messenger Payments can’t come soon enough. As the social network’s user base continues to shift to mobile and expand into the rest of the world, advertising is no longer keeping pace with revenue...
Invoice management is an “unsexy” part of businesses, TradeGecko CEO Cameron Priest recently told Forbes in an interview. But even without a flashy angle to the market, the startup has received significant financial backing, and revealed this week that it is using that support to...
India’s buyers and suppliers now have yet another major online marketplace to conduct their business. According to reports on Tuesday (April 21), Amazon is the latest digital commerce conglomerate to launch B2B eCommerce services in the nation with the launch of Amazonbusiness.in. Get the Full...
After more than a year of operating across the globe in beta phase, and with more than $2 million in backing from venture capitalists, fleet management solutions provider Onfleet has emerged onto the market in full throttle. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connection of anything—from street lamps to people—to the Web. A newly released report from DHL and Cisco predicts some 50 billion objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. In addition to generating actionable data and analytics...
By now, governments across the globe are well aware that in promoting digital invoicing and procurement methods, they can save millions of dollars and provide more business to local small business suppliers. Belgium is the latest jurisdiction to introduce an e-invoicing scheme for its SMEs,...
The U.K.’s new Small Business, Employment & Enterprise Act is vast, covering an array of efforts aimed at increasing small businesses’ access to working capital. But one of the most discussed and debated aspects of the new rules, which went into effect last month, includes...
The U.K. is in the midst of an overhaul of the SME finance sector. While largely brought on by an epidemic of big, corporate buyers paying their small suppliers on longer-than-fair terms, the newly passed legislation is widespread and includes language that requires banks that...
When the Portland (Oregon) Seed Fund got its start four years ago, the concept of “going to City Hall for seed funding” was a bit of an eyebrow-raising idea. But it was one that started gaining traction in 2011 in Portland (and other U.S. cities),...
