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(Bloomberg) — Blackstone Inc. agreed to buy PS Business Parks Inc. for about $7.6 billion, expanding its bets on real estate across the U.S. Most Read from Bloomberg Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate will buy Glendale, California-based PSB for $187.50 a share in cash, according to a statement Monday. The price is roughly a 12% premium to PSB’s closing price on Friday. Under the deal, Blackstone agreed to take over approximately 27 million square feet of industrial and office properties,… Source link

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) – Our Local4 Scam Alert of the Week focuses on businesses, and in particular the business profiles they have on Google. We’ve all seen how businesses can share their phone numbers, addresses and even menus for restaurants, but what a lot of the business owners might not know is how easy it is to be scammed out of that profile online. Better Business Bureau Public Relations Director Josh Planos says it’s a relatively easy process for scammers. ”If you own a company,… Source link

Small business owners often face hurdles trying to borrow money. Data from the Federal Reserve shows that 85% experienced financial difficulties in 2021. And during that time, more than half of owners who sought loans were looking to meet their operating expenses rather than to expand their businesses, the report found. In addition, small business owners are also feeling the sting of higher prices. Inflation in the country is now running at annual 7.9% for the 12-month period ended February,… Source link

How does Google Maps know when a particular business is open? It turns out that AI plays a pretty important part in making sure Google can provide accurate information to its users. In response to the constantly fluctuating hours of operation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company says it developed a machine learning model “that automatically identifies if business hours are likely wrong, then instantly updates them with AI-generated prediction.” This model relies on the Popular Times… Source link

Investor and political activist Bill Browder (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right)TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images (left), Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (right) Bill Browder once ran Russia’s largest foreign investment fund — now he’s Putin’s “enemy.” In an interview with The New York Times, he said remaining in Russia is like doing “business in Nazi Germany.” He said all companies have a “moral obligation” to leave Russia, “no matter what the cost is.” Bill Browder — an… Source link

Rite Aid’s (RAD) outlook is a hot mess — so hot the company may not be in business much longer. At least that’s the word from Deutsche Bank analyst George Hill, who issued a damning downgrade of the struggling retailer on Thursday. Hill slashed his rating on Rite Aid to Sell and slapped the stock with a $1 price target. Most worrisome — at least if one still owns Rite Aid’s stock — is that Hill suggests Rite Aid may go under. “We see a likely risk that the company provides guidance next… Source link

Google has shared how it’s using artificial intelligence, including its restaurant-calling Duplex tech, to try and keep business hours up to date on Google Maps. The company says that if it is confident enough in the AI’s prediction of what a business’s hours should be, it will update the information in Maps. In a blog post, Google outlines the various factors its AI analyzes to determine whether it should do these updates. First, it looks at when the business profile was last… Source link

Google has a new recycling attribute label you may be able to add to your Google Business Profile, the company announced. This attribute can be used to highlight if your business offers recycling services for its customers. Google said this makes “it easier than ever for people to find nearby recycling points on Search and Maps.” What it looks like. You may be able to see examples of this in the wild for queries such as [battery recycling near me] or similar kind queries. But here is an… Source link

Google Business Profiles are the only way you can control the information that appears about your business that is reaching the millions of customers who utilize Google products. A complete Google Business profile is 70% more likely to bring a customer to your business and, with minimal time investment, you can maximize your visibility. Join C.A. Clark of Miles Partnership and learn the fundamentals of managing your Google Business Profile. Register here.   Photo credit: Joni Kabana This… Source link

Having a Google Business Profile (GBP) is the best way for a local business to rank high on Google – in the Local Pack, the Local Finder, and on Google Maps. And for many of these local businesses, having a Google Business Profile is often their only local SEO strategy and the one way they promote their business online. So when a business logs in to the Business Profile Manager or sees on Google search that their Google Business Profile is suspended, and their phone stops ringing, they go… Source link