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Short-Term Rental Hosts Undercut Airbnb With Pricing, Bookings

Short-Term Rental Hosts Undercut Airbnb With Pricing, Bookings
Short-Term Rental Hosts Undercut Airbnb With Pricing, Bookings
May 06, 2020  |  Business

Dissatisfied with Airbnb and other short-term rental companies, many hosts have created their own direct-booking websites to boost business and end years of frustration with...

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Senators Push FTC To Shield SMBs From PPP Scams
Senators Push FTC To Shield SMBs From PPP Scams
May 06, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

A group of senators is asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take more steps to protect small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owners from scams...

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Grubhub Grows Active Diners By 24 Pct
Grubhub Grows Active Diners By 24 Pct
May 06, 2020  |  Earnings

Amid a rise in orders and an increase in customers fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, Grubhub reported a 24 percent year-over-year increase in active diners...

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Lyft Ridership Up 3 Pct Even With Quarantine
Lyft Ridership Up 3 Pct Even With Quarantine
May 06, 2020  |  Earnings

Lyft reported an increase in active riders in the first quarter of 2020 with 21,211, up 3 percent year over year. But that number fell...

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SBA Still Clearing Up PPP Loan Confusion
SBA Still Clearing Up PPP Loan Confusion
May 06, 2020  |  Loans

It’s a fact that it’s a lot of money, but disbursing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) has been overly...

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More Than Half of SMBs Might Not Have Enough Cash To Make It Through Crisis
More Than Half of SMBs Might Not Have Enough Cash To Make It Through Crisis
May 06, 2020  |  SMBs

Almost 60 percent of SMB retailers say they might not have enough cash on hand to get through the pandemic’s economic gut-punches, according to PYMNTS research....

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Sage Updates Will Boost SMB Accounting Visibility
Sage Updates Will Boost SMB Accounting Visibility
May 06, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Cloud business management firm Sage has announced new updates to its small business cloud accounting solution to help customers gain more insight into their accounting,...

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Are Gap’s Face Masks The Start Of Retail Reinvention?
Are Gap’s Face Masks The Start Of Retail Reinvention?
May 06, 2020  |  Retail

Retail must, and will, change following the coronavirus, with consumer behavior shifting from brick-and-mortar to eCommerce and merchants making adjustments to their inventory selections and...

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