U.S. small businesses, or those with fewer than 50 workers, offer 68% of their employees paid time off work for holidays and 67% of their employees paid time off work for vacation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than half of workers […]
Is Big Tech In Another Bubble? “It’s different this time.” Right now all the talk is about big tech IPOs – particularly with Alibaba completing the biggest IPO ever and companies like Uber moving towards $40 billion valuations. Warren Buffett says that in business, […]
The Arkansas Bankers Association (ABA) installed Rogers bank executive Jon Harrell as the organization’s 2020-21 chairman. The one-year term began in April. Harrell is the chairman and CEO of Generations Bank and president and CEO of the holding company, Harrell Bancshares Inc. Both are […]
How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common. For starters, all five of the Big Tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet) have emerged as some of the […]
Hacktivist group Anonymous issued a threat to QAnon conspiracy theorists on YouTube and Twitter, pledging Sunday to take down the pro-Trump movement and its creator Q. In a 3-minute video, the group threatens to ‘wreck’ QAnon, an online conspiracy theory that has jumped from the internet into real […]
Facebook was slammed for allowing a South Sudan child bride auction to take place on its platform. A 16-year-old girl’s father reportedly received 500 cows, three cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter’s hand in marriage, according to children’s rights group Plan International. ‘This […]
Stuttgart-based Farmers and Merchants Bankshares, Inc., the holding company for Farmers and Merchants Bank completed its previously announced acquisition of Mountain Home Bancshares, Inc. and its subsidiary, Integrity First Bank, N.A. The completion of the acquisition follows receipt of all regulatory approval and […]
Jack Dorsey isn’t bowing to public pressure. The Twitter CEO is no stranger to criticism over his company’s mishandling of harassment and hate speech on his service. But this week, he attracted even more when tech industry titans including Apple, YouTube, Facebook and Spotify began banning conspiracy […]
Connected digital platforms improve our lives in many ways. We use social network profiles to log onto apps and websites, third-party payment systems while online shopping, and we share our activity data from devices like Fitbit. How do all these platforms work together so seamlessly? […]
Two startup firms that participated in the Venture Center’s 2018 Fintech Accelerator program have garnered significant early stage seed investments and international support to allow those companies to scale up their operations and customer bases. Zurich-based Sonect and Gas Pos announced this week they have […]
The US Justice Department on Thursday swung hard at China with a one-two punch intended to counter industrial espionage. First, the agency unveiled charges against Chinese and Taiwanese companies and individuals for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to semiconductor technology. That case involves Idaho-based Micron […]
Bernie Sanders and Amazon are at it again. On Wednesday, the Independent senator from Vermont introduced a bill in the Senate called the ‘Stop BEZOS Act,’ which would require big corporations like Amazon and Walmart to pay the government for food stamps, public housing, Medicaid […]
Dana Hopkins felt like she was in an ‘endless loop’ with Facebook. The frustration began in September when she purchased an ad on the social network to promote an open mic night she was co-hosting in San Francisco. What happened next was a head-scratcher. […]
