Hello everyone, Happy Friday! It’s time to unwind, especially if you’ve been working from home through the week. There is another good news. Online retailers will soon be accepting orders for non-essential items. Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Up and running E-commerce marketplaces will start taking orders of non-essential goods as early as this weekend after multiple […]
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This $30 QuickBooks Course Can Help You Avoid Costly Accounting Mistakes
Learn QuickBooks today and save your company from costly accounting mistakes in the future. April 17, 2020 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our […]
Editor’s Column: Testing times for even the best planners
I would like to share some good news this week but realistically the Coronavirus outbreak will test many Financial Planning models to the limit and not all firms will survive. The firms which will do well will be those with the most robust, recurring income stream and this is likely to be derived purely […]
Brewin funds fall 15% but advice demand up
Wealth manager and Financial Planner Brewin Dolphin has reported total funds under management down 14.6% to £41.4bn in the last six months but says demand for financial advice is up. In a half year trading statement today the company said income overall was up 8% to £175.8m although this includes £9.3m from new acquisitions. Financial […]
NS&I drops cuts to variable savings rates
NS&I has dropped planned cuts to variable interest rates on savings and other products to “support savers” during the pandemic. The government savings organisation says planned interest rate reductions on NS&I variable rate products, including Premium Bonds, will not go ahead. The move is designed to help savers coping with the impact of Coronavirus. NS&I […]
Tech giants use algorithms to step up fight against coronavirus misinformation
Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world’s largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health. Facebook, Google and others have begun using algorithms, new rules and factual warnings to knock down harmful coronavirus conspiracy theories, questionable ads and unproven remedies that regularly […]
Google’s fast-growing video tool Meet is getting a Zoom-like layout & Gmail integration
Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet starting Thursday, a new feature being offered as the Alphabet unit seeks to capitalize on security and other concerns with rival services. The integration of Meet with e-mail is the first of several features being launched […]
Luckin Coffee’s Accounting Scandal Thwarts Backer’s $2.5 Billion Fund – The Wall Street Journal
The accounting mess at China’s Luckin Coffee Inc. has forced one of its top backers to put off its fundraising plans. Centurium Capital, a three-year-old Chinese private-equity firm that has a sizable investment in Luckin, has put on hold plans to raise a second fund with a target size of $2.5 billion, according to people […]
Zoom rival BlueJeans snapped up by Verizon for less than $500 million
Image Source: BlueJeans Verizon on Thursday agreed to buy BlueJeans, a rival of Zoom, for less than $500 million as it looks to tap into the new-found popularity of video-conferencing apps. Shelter-in-place orders to contain the spread of the new coronavirus have pushed companies to adopt news ways of doing business, leading to a surge […]
Stripe raises $600 million as Covid-19 gives fintech a boost
U.S. fintech startup Stripe said on Thursday it raised $600 million, as companies that provide the online infrastructure for financial and payment services get a boost from the coronavirus pandemic. Fintech startups attracted a flood of investments last year as they pushed digitalization in financial services. The pandemic is accelerating the trend as more customers […]