SMBs

Small and Medium businesses are privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation.

Main Street Merchants Run More of Their Business by Phone

Main Street Merchants Run More of Their Business by Phone
Main Street Merchants Run More of Their Business by Phone
May 22, 2026  |  SMBs

Retail has evolved from a brick-and-mortar storefront to an anywhere, anytime experience. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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57% of US Small Businesses Source Overseas as Payment Gaps Widen
57% of US Small Businesses Source Overseas as Payment Gaps Widen
May 21, 2026  |  SMBs

A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Mastercard, “The Cross-Border Opportunity: What Global Sourcing by US SMBs Means for Payment Providers” examines how U.S. small- to medium-sized...

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Small-Business Banking Has a Segmentation Problem
Small-Business Banking Has a Segmentation Problem
May 18, 2026  |  Banking

The term “small business” has traditionally functioned as a sort of economic shorthand. Banks, payment companies, FinTech firms, and even policymakers spoke about small-and-medium-sized businesses...

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Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agents for Small Business Finance
Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agents for Small Business Finance
May 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A Manhattan marketing agency founder stopped spending hours each week generating invoices and chasing payments. A coffee roaster’s COO found operational problems he didn’t know...

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AI Needs Customers More Than Chips 
AI Needs Customers More Than Chips 
May 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence (AI) story has been framed as a provider arms race. Nvidia earnings became macroeconomic events, data centers turned into strategic assets, and...

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Anthropic Scales Claude AI Across 7 Small Business Apps
Anthropic Scales Claude AI Across 7 Small Business Apps
May 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude for Small Business plugin will bring new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities to tools commonly used by small businesses, the company and its partners said...

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PayPal and Anthropic Take AI to Main Street Businesses
PayPal and Anthropic Take AI to Main Street Businesses
May 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

PayPal said Wednesday (March 13) that it is partnering with Anthropic to offer a free online course called AI Fluency for Small Business and that its platform integrates with Anthropic’s...

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How Digitally Fluent Small Businesses Are Reshaping Main Street
How Digitally Fluent Small Businesses Are Reshaping Main Street
May 13, 2026  |  SMBs

Four years after the pandemic pushed millions of small businesses into emergency digital adoption, a new reality is taking shape across Main Street. The businesses...

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