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What businesses do vs. what business say

What businesses do vs. what business say

This post was originally published on TKer.co Stocks rallied, with the S&P 500 climbing 2.5% last week. The index is now up 13.8% from its October 12 closing low of 3,577.03 and down 15.1% from its January 3, 2022 closing high of 4,796.56. While the U.S. economy has been cooling off for months, the hard economic data shows growth has been pretty resilient. On Thursday, we learned GDP in Q4 rose at a 2.9% rate. However, if you’ve only been reading sentiment-oriented business surveys (i.e., the… Source link

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Small businesses are optimistic for 2023 despite ongoing hiring troubles

Small businesses are optimistic for 2023 despite ongoing hiring troubles

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

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Small businesses are optimistic for 2023 despite ongoing hiring troubles

Small businesses are optimistic for 2023 despite ongoing hiring troubles

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

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Google is letting businesses try out client-side encryption for Gmail

Google is letting businesses try out client-side encryption for Gmail

Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google. The company announced the beta, which Workspace administrators can sign up for until January 20th, in a blog post on Friday. Once the feature is enabled and set up for a workspace’s users, they’ll have an additional option when using the web version of Gmail. Clicking on a padlock will let them… Source link

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Yandex to sell Russian businesses, flee country with its best tech

Yandex to sell Russian businesses, flee country with its best tech

After Moscow invaded Ukraine, ‘Russia’s Google’ has decided it can’t stay in Russia. Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine. Under the plan, which the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Yandex… Source link

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Yandex to sell Russian businesses, flee country with its best tech

Yandex to sell Russian businesses, flee country with its best tech

After Moscow invaded Ukraine, ‘Russia’s Google’ has decided it can’t stay in Russia. Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine. Under the plan, which the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Yandex… Source link

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Google says India’s antitrust order ‘major setback’ for consumers and businesses, opens ‘serious security risks’ • TechCrunch

Google says India’s antitrust order ‘major setback’ for consumers and businesses, opens ‘serious security risks’ • TechCrunch

Google says the Indian competition regulator’s order is a “major setback for Indian consumers and businesses” and it is reviewing the decision to evaluate “next steps.” The Competition Commission of India fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices and ordered a number of redressal measures that could force Google to make fundamental changes to its business strategies. A Google spokesperson told… Source link

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Small businesses get creative to hire hard-to-find labor

Small businesses get creative to hire hard-to-find labor

As some corporations slow the pace of hiring due to economic concerns, small business owners are falling behind when it comes to staffing up. Almost two-thirds of small businesses were hiring or trying to hire in September, according to a report from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), but 46% reported they couldn’t fill those job openings, well above the 48-year historical average of 23%. The difficulty in hiring has prompted some small business owners to seek more… Source link

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