Square, which got some its early start in San Francisco coffee shops, is trying to make life easier for similar food and beverage places where customers can keep a tab open, with a new feature called Open Tickets, the company announced in a blog post...
It’s not just retailers who are struggling with technical issues involved in the transition to EMV chip payment cards. Some card-issuing U.S. banks are said to be having trouble too — and cybercriminals are taking advantage by automating the process of turning stolen numbers from...
Winter storms blasted half a percentage point from U.S. economic growth in Q1 2015, making it the second year in a row that weather hammered the economy during the first quarter, according to a survey of economists by Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the...
The cost of indirect spend, the materials and services that businesses need in order to operate, can add up quickly. Some research estimates indirect spend accounts for up to 50 percent of a company’s purchases. In a joint survey by Supply Management and Expense Reduction...
Chinese officials have made efforts in recent months to boost economic growth in the nation, in part by introducing two loan interest rate cuts in the last four months. Despite these cuts, reports say, small businesses in the nation aren’t seeing any ease of burden...
Travel and expense management service providers are largely investing in the development of solutions that can be run through mobile applications, signaling a rise in the adoption of new technologies aimed at reducing the friction that exists in producing and processing an expense report. Get...
Digital procurement solutions provider PROACTIS wants to make payments faster for U.K. small businesses. The firm revealed only days ago that it has partnered with Inspired Capital and met with technology lawyers at Walker Morris to develop a new accelerated payment facility for Britain’s SMEs,...
Germany’s software giant SAP isn’t shy about going after what it predicts will be a $75 billion industry, cloud procurement service. With the launch of the firm’s Business Network, SAP has become a driving force behind the growth of B2B Software-as-a-Service. Get the Full Story...
The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index released the state of SME finance for February 2015 this week, and the results were promising. According to the Index, borrowing among small businesses in the U.S. rose by 7 percent from the same time a year ago....
