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GlobalCollect Partners with BlueSnap to Serve Small Businesses

Global payment gateway BlueSnap announced that GlobalCollect, part of Ingenico Group and the world's most knowledgeable payment service provider, has partnered with BlueSnap to further serve the small & mid-size business (SMB) market. BlueSnap focuses on SMB markets delivering ease with onboarding and providing dynamic hosted checkout pages, APIs, a subscription-billing engine and other managed front-end services. SMBs will be able to take advantage of BlueSnap and GlobalCollect's combined cross-border revenue growth capabilities, which allow merchants to accept payments in 180 countries, 150 localized payment methods and 150 currencies. Read more...

Crowd-funding for Small Businesses

A New York start up wants to bring crowd-funding to small businesses, reports the New York Times. Start-up Lendoor is developing a way for local small business to borrow money from their customers and other individuals online. Read more...

Business Lending Continues to Grow

According to CNBC News, small business borrowing has pushed the Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index to its highest level in seven years. The index is 125.4, which is up from August’s 118.5. Read more...

Small Business Health Insurance Marketplace Set to Go Live

The small business health insurance marketplace is still scheduled to go liveNovember 15, reports Kaiser Health News. Despite the fact several bugs have been discovered, the administration expects the bugs to be fixed prior to the launch. Originally, the healthcare marketplace for small businesses was set to go live on October 1st, 2013, but the government was unable to meet that deadline. Read more...

Small Business Hiring Continues to Grow

According to the Washington Post, the latest employment report from ADP, a payroll processing firm, shows Small employers added 102,000 jobs in October. This is the second straight month of improvement. In September, small businesses added 93,000 jobs. Read more...

Mobile Shopping App Connects Small Business to Shoppers

Arlington has a new social media shopping app, reports ARL Now. The new YOPP app helps small businesses reach mobile customers. The app allows users to search for items they want and it also notifies small businesses when customers nearby are looking for something they sell. Read more...

Cyber Security Expensive for Small Businesses

The Pew Research Internet Project project Cyberattacks will only get worse, reports Bloomberg Business. Small businesses are equally vulnerable, to protect themselves they should invest in cyber security measures, but it can be expensive.  The average small business can expect to spend $57,000 a year on cyber security. Read more...

Veterans Successful in Small Business

Veterans have a huge impact on small business. Veteran owned businesses account for 2.4 million businesses in the United States, reports Forbes. This number accounts for 9% of all American firms. In addition, veteran owned firms employ almost six million people, which translates into a payroll of $210 billion. A substantial amount of these veteran owned business are run by former officers, around 55 percent, many of which are highly successful. Read more...

Enterprise Collaboration Tool Intellinote Adds Real-Time Features

Enterprise collaboration tool Intellinote has released new real-time collaboration features so that teams of all sizes can get work done more quickly and efficiently from any device, at any time. Read more...

Simplify Hiring for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

TriNet Hire streamlines the key steps involved in hiring: creating and posting job descriptions, managing candidate referrals, sourcing and screening candidates, scheduling interviews and compiling interview feedback. It also coordinates communication among hiring managers, interview panels and candidates. Read more...

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