Getting the right financial product for your small business is important. However, entrepreneurs should be careful about which small business financing options they choose. Some make more sense for your company than others. Small Business Trends talked with Hanna Kassis an expert at Segway Financial about how to differentiate between loans, cash advances and factoring. “The biggest difference is cash advances and factoring are not loans, although sometimes they’re disguised as loans,” Kassis says. The trick for small business owners is in understanding how to pick the financial product that works to make their situation better. Choosing the wrong path can lead to deeper financial…
Author: Loknath Das
“Every possible series of events is happening all at once,” Littlefinger tells Sansa Stark in the newly released trailer for the rest of Game of Thrones season seven, which HBO unveiled at a Friday-evening Comic-Con panel after it was leaked online earlier in the day. 8 winners and 5 losers from Game of Thrones’ season 7 premiere He could have just as well been talking about the trailer itself, a “weeks ahead preview” that races through the show’s various groups of characters to show us alliances and armies coming together throughout Westeros in the coming season, as Daenerys makes her play for…
UK marketers have revised their internet budgets up to the greatest extent since the third quarter of 2007, according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report, published today (19 July). However, while an increase in internet budgets in Q2 2017 has fuelled growth in overall marketing budgets, rising wider economic uncertainty has had a noticeable impact on companies’ financial prospects. 32% of the latest survey panel recorded an increase in internet marketing budgets, compared with a little over 9% of panellists that recorded a fall, providing a resulting net balance of +22.7% – up sharply since the previous quarter’s +16.9% and…
In what was definitely the most-awaited feature phone launch in years, Reliance Jio announced the Jio Phone launch at the annual Reliance Industries AGM on Friday. The phone comes at a price that’s even lower than what was rumoured – you need to pay a Rs. 1,500 deposit up front, which is refundable after three years, making the phone effectively free. Jio Phone users can enjoy Reliance Jio services like free voice calling and SMS, as well as access to Jio apps like JioTV and JioMovies at Rs. 153 per month, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said. This Jio plan also gets you ‘unlimited’…
Game development in India has continued to operate in a state of flux over the years. The one part of the industry that is still going strong is studios that carry out outsourced development of parts of games. This is particularly true when talking about the creation of art assets that are used in big budget console and PC titles. One of the oldest – and perhaps the most successful Indian companies in this space – is Gurgaon-based Lakshya Digital. Lakshya’s art has been used by some of the industry’s biggest hits, including Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, WWE 2K16, and Bloodborne. It’s…
China’s top cyber authority ordered the country’s top tech firms to carry out “immediate cleaning and rectification” of their platforms to remove content deemed offensive to the Communist Party and the country’s national image, it said on Wednesday. The watchdog held a meeting with representatives from firms including Tencent Holdings Ltd, Baidu Inc and Sohu.com Inc, on Tuesday where it gave them a list of specific errors, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on social media. The violations include distorting Chinese history, spreading fake news, misinterpreting policy directives and failing to block content that subverts public stability. “[The…
Google’s fight against France’s bid to enforce the so-called right to be forgotten globally is headed to the European Union’s top court, just three years after its judges ordered the company to strip out some results that people find embarrassing or out of date. The EU Court of Justice will now have to decide whether links should be purged from Internet searches in one country, across the EU or globally. It will also have to rule whether Google should be required to block users from seeing the links. These questions were put to it by France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s highest administrative court, in…
Google’s fight against France’s bid to enforce the so-called right to be forgotten globally is headed to the European Union’s top court, just three years after its judges ordered the company to strip out some results that people find embarrassing or out of date. The EU Court of Justice will now have to decide whether links should be purged from Internet searches in one country, across the EU or globally. It will also have to rule whether Google should be required to block users from seeing the links. These questions were put to it by France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s highest administrative court, in…
Take Amazon Prime, mix it with Pinterest and add a dash of Instagram. The result is Amazon Spark , a new shopping-focused “social network” aimed at getting hardcore Amazon users to spend even more money with the e-commerce giant. The service launched publicly on Tuesday on Amazon’s iPhone app, although it’s already chock full of posts, so the company has clearly been testing it for a while. It’s only available to Prime members, who pay $99 a year for free shipping, streaming videos and other perks. An Android version is planned. Like Pinterest, Spark lets users share photo-heavy posts about their interests, ideally those leading…
A Russian man who helped develop and distribute malicious software designed to steal personal financial information was sentenced Wednesday in Atlanta to serve five years in prison. Mark Vartanyan, also known as “Kolypto,” had pleaded guilty in March to a computer fraud charge after reaching a deal with prosecutors. US District Judge Mark Cohen said Vartanyan would receive credit for time served, including more than two years in a prison in Norway following his arrest there in October 2014. He will be turned over to immigration authorities for deportation once he serves his sentence. Starting in 2011, Citadel was marketed on invite-only, Russian-language…