SME News
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2020-04-09
Social Platforms, Local Media Face Small-Business Ad Cutbacks
Along with local media, social platforms-- Facebook in particular -- rely heavily on small businesses' collective ad revenue infusion. Facebook for Business currently reports more than 7 million active advertisers, and as of last year, t...
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2020-04-08
Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba, JD.com offer support for small and medium enterprises to aid in coronavirus recovery
• The need to support SMEs has gained urgency as businesses across China have struggled since the Covid-19 outbreak in January • SMEs, which account for more than 90 per cent of enterprises in the coun...
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2020-04-08
Mastercard Pledges $250M In Help For Small Businesses
Recognizing that Main Street is being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Mastercard committed $250 million over the next five years to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release. The announcement came during ...
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2020-04-08
Facebook pledges $15M in small business grants to Bay Area companies
Facebook Inc. plans to give $15 million in small business grants to companies in the Bay Area and is launching a digital gift card discovery platform to help restaurants and businesses across the U.S., the company announced Tuesday morning. The $1...
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2020-04-08
Germany launches smartwatch app to monitor Covid-19 spread
BERLIN: Germany’s public health authority launched a smartwatch app on Tuesday in partnership with healthtech startup Thryve to help monitor the spread of Covid-19 and analyse whether measures to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic are worki...