By Mike Isaac and Sheera FrenkelAs people turned in droves to video chatting app Zoom in recent weeks, the buzz caught Facebook’s attention. Inside the social network, that immediately set off a scramble. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, ordered employees to ramp up and focus on the company’s own video chat projects, especially as use […]
Archives for April 2020
Elevating Client Service To Actually Drive Growth Through Client Referrals
Executive Summary Financial advisors who want to grow their firms faster can examine a wide range of advisor marketing strategies and sales tactics. But the reality is that if an advisory firm is struggling to grow, often the problem isn’t actually a matter of better marketing; instead, it’s about developing a better client service process. […]
Rays of sun are brightening the tech sector’s gloom
A WEEK IN IoT – The news hasn’t improved much lately, and it’s tough to digest a diet of disaster in the media, says Jeremy Cowan. We have to hold our hands up here for sharing tough news in www.TheEE.io , www.IoT-Now.com , and www.VanillaPlus.com ). So, don’t think I’m in denial when I try to lift the spirits a little […]
Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack
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Brewers seek nod for home delivery
A national association of beer companies has approached chief minsters of eight states this weekend seeking partial resumption of brewing facilities and sale of beer through ecommerce and home delivery platforms. “Covid-19 has the potential to disrupt business for the rest of the year. It is imperative that state excise departments introduce policies that facilitate […]
Advisors: Here are your top EOFY and STP queries answered
As every accountant or bookkeeper will confirm, when it comes to year-end, it pays to be prepared. As we make our way towards the 2020/21 season, amidst what has been an incredibly challenging period for small businesses, you’ve likely never been busier. But while the impacts of COVID-19 continue to be felt, the requirement of […]
Most SMEs have run out of cash: Survey
Nearly half of the country’s small businesses have either exhausted their funds or are close to doing so, as the unprecedented demand crash due to the extended coronavirus-led lockdown forces them to dig into their own reserves, a recent survey shows. The survey by community platform LocalCircles, which covered around 7,000 businesses–including startups, small and […]
Time on your hands?
Four weeks into lockdown and many business owners will be feeling the strain. Whether that is from having too much work or none at all. We work with many different businesses and have some who can’t trade at all and others who have kept an income coming in by finding new ways of working. Its […]
Non-essentials sales curb could pinch ecomm firms hard
From expecting the Indian ecommerce firms to benefit from the lockdown just as they have in the US and China, analysts and industry watchers are now expecting overall growth in the sector to be in the mid-single-digits this year, down from almost 35% in 2019. For the two largest players in the space, Walmart-owned Flipkart […]
Paytm in talks to raise new capital from technology major Microsoft
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Digital payments firm Paytm has held talks with US technology giant, Microsoft for fresh funding as the company looks to boost its war chest to fight growing competition in the sector, two people in the know said. The proposed fund raise, which may amount to around $100 million (Rs 760 crore), is […]