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Venmo Small Business Grant Now Accepting Applications to Support Emerging and Small Businesses

Venmo Small Business Grant Now Accepting Applications to Support Emerging and Small Businesses

Initiative Provides Selected Venmo Business Profile Users with Grants and Mentoring to Help Grow Their Businesses

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced the second Venmo Small Business Grant, a program for small and emerging businesses providing financial grants and mentorship for 20 Venmo business profile customers. The selected businesses will each receive $10,000 in expenses, such as rent, or to help digitize and promote their businesses.

In addition to providing a financial grant, the Venmo Small Business Grant

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Calls for extension of repayment deadline on pandemic small business loans

Approximately $49B went out to about 900,000 businesses through the program. Officials say 21% of the businesses have fully repaid as of May 31, 2023

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OTTAWA — The federal government needs to extend the deadline for small businesses to repay pandemic loans, the New Democrats and a national association representing small businesses said this week.

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Yao was given small business, northern development position by Smith

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Tany Yao has been named parliamentary secretary for small business and northern development. Premier Danielle Smith appointed Yao to the position on Thursday, and named seven other MLAs to parliamentary secretary posts.

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Yao will report to Matt Jones, Alberta’s minister of jobs, economy and trade.

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How AI is Transforming SEO for Small Businesses

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Once upon a time, the SEO game was all about keywords and backlinks. The more you have of each, the higher your site will climb on the search engine results page. But boy, how the times have changed! Today, we’re standing on the brink of an AI revolution that’s flipping the script on SEO as we know it.

Indeed, AI is whipping up a storm of transformations in the SEO world, and small businesses are finding themselves right at the heart of this tempest. In the fast-paced, ever-evolving realm of SEO, the

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250,000 small businesses at risk of closing as CEBA loans come due

CFIB says 250,000 small businesses at risk of closure if the CEBA loan repayment deadline is not extended

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Small businesses in Canada are running out of time to pay back government-backed pandemic-era loans, and failure to do so by the deadline could force nearly

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Inflation Data, JPMorgan and Delta Earnings, and More to Watch This Week

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Second-quarter earnings season begins this week with several large US banks set to report. The latest inflation data will be closely watched by investors and economists alike.

Citigroup
,

JPMorgan Chase
,

and

Wells Fargo

will be this week’s earnings highlights, all on Friday morning.

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Conagra Brands
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Delta Airlines
,

Fastenal
,

and

PepsiCo

are also scheduled to report on Thursday, followed by

BlackRock
,

State Street, and

UnitedHealth Group

on Friday.

The economic-data highlight of the week will be the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index for June on Wednesday. Economists’ consensus

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Small Business Tech Roundup: Instagram Releases Its Twitter-Killer

Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

1 – Threads – Instagram’s Twitter

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Local small businesses struggle with CEBA repayments

The average Alberta small business is still carrying $85,000 to $100,000 worth of pandemic-related debt, according to the CFIB

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A pandemic lifeline may now be dragging local businesses to their demise.

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