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Cloud and Mobile – Enabling the Small Business

Eric D. Brown

I just finished reading an article written by John Mason titled When Small Businesses Use Cloud and Mobile to Go Global ” over on IBM’s Smarter Planet Blog. The cloud brings a great deal of value to organizations, but even more-so to small businesses. I absolutely agree with this. Information Technology The New CIO'

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‘Baby bond’ legislation aims to address wealth gaps in Washington state

GeekWire

The program would allocate $4,000 into an investment pool for every child whose birth is funded by Apple Health, the state’s program for Medicaid recipients. In addition, 70% of African American babies and 79% of Hispanic, Native American and Hawaiian/Pacific Islander babies were born under the program.

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U.S. government scrutinizes Microsoft’s hiring practices as tech giant looks to boost diversity

GeekWire

Microsoft in June announced a sweeping racial justice plan, including an initiative to spend $150 million on diversity and inclusion programs, and double its number of Black and African American managers and senior employees by 2025 in the U.S. “We have every confidence that Microsoft’s diversity initiative complies fully with all U.S.

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Porch makes $35M acquisition; reshuffles board; revenue up 200%; loss grows; PPP loan forgiven

GeekWire

Its quarterly net loss widened to $16.3 million Paycheck Protection Program loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration in June. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group boosted its second quarter revenue by 200% to $51.3 million, exceeding analysts’ expectations. million, vs. a loss of $6.3

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

It’s exploiting its monopoly power over these small businesses to pocket a huge and growing cut of their revenue.”. You might consider this to be a good business strategy on Amazon’s part, as it’s certainly paid off for the company. AWS netted $13.5 ILSR estimates seller fees netted $24 billion.

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Tech workers sound off on Washington state’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ at first public hearing

GeekWire

” The money raised by the tax would go toward social services and tax credits for low-income families and small businesses in an effort to re-balance what many call the most regressive tax system in the country. used to always say, ‘a tax on wealth is an economic opportunity recycling program,'” Collins said.

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‘This company was invented for the pandemic’ — Scott Galloway on Amazon in a ‘Post Corona’ world

GeekWire

Galloway: Take the bottom third of US households [and help them], instead of giving $750 billion to the wealthiest cohort in the world, small business owners. As we do with everything, PPP (the Paycheck Protection Program) was nothing but an attempt to flatten the curve for rich people, specifically people that own small business.

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