With all of the financial data that QuickBooks has at its fingertips, it’s no wonder why the accounting platform can link up with alternative lending partners to offer an array of financing options to its small business users. But according to Jeff Kaufman, QuickBooks Financing’s...
Businesses across the Asia Pacific region want their late payments handled faster than the rest of the world, and they’re willing to get aggressive to chase down their receivables, according to new research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
The team at PayPal cleared a corporate milestone this week with its first-ever standalone earnings report. PayPal managed to split the difference when it came to analysts’ pre-release earnings estimates, missing on one metric and exceeding another. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
The holiday shopping seasons of 2013 and 2014 were marred by delivery snafus that left millions of customers hoping their orders would arrive before it was time to open everything else under the tree. Instead of pulling back on delivery guarantees, though, some retailers are...
Nobody knows “fast” better than quick-service restaurants -- that’s their business model. But, starting with the 2008 recession, the proliferation of their kind nationwide made it difficult for those food stops to differentiate on speed of service alone, and price became an issue. QSRs have...
When corporate payments firm WEX, known best for its fuel card services, announced this month it struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire peer Electronic Funds Source, the fleet industry perked up. As gas prices decline and fleet card technology evolves, WEX’s buyout of EFS...
When the World Bank first began publishing its “Benchmarking Public Procurement” report last year, the organization looked at just 11 economies and their procurement activities. This month, the World Bank Group released the 2016 edition of the report, which examines the states of procurement across...
In some sense, it’s no surprise when Apple posts a successful quarterly earnings report. They didn’t get to be the world’s most valuable company by making a habit of choking during earnings season. However, when it comes to Apple “success,” it is measured somewhat differently...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and build the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity. Get...
