Business Services news and trends

The Rising Small Business Spend Management Trend Has Not Been Lost on Investors
Europe // December 09, 2021

Business services startup Pleo, which offers expense management tools and smart company cards for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has secured $200 million in a Series C round at a $4.7 billion valuation, nearly triple its previous value. The Danish startup previously joined the unicorn...

Priority Technology Moves Beyond SMB Payments With Company.com Partnership
SMBs // November 05, 2019

Merchant acquiring and payments firm Priority Technology has teamed with Company.com to provide access to its full stack of technology, services and payments solutions to Priority Technology’s clients. The partnership is designed to help Priority Technology extend its services portfolio beyond payments to include marketing,...

Fiverr Launches Services Store For Gig Businesses
eCommerce // September 04, 2019

Fiverr, the company that matches freelancers to jobs, has announced a new eCommerce-based store with the intention of helping online businesses with services that support all their needs, the company said in a release.  Through the new store, businesses that use platforms like Magento, Shopify...

Pitney Bowes Aims To Make Business Shipping Easy
Merchant Innovation // May 08, 2018

Pitney Bowes has announced the launch of SendPro Enterprise, a cloud-based multi-carrier and PC postage software solution that gives companies greater control over all shipping activity and spending. With parcel volume growing from 44 billion in 2014 to 65 billion in 2016, companies are looking...

Interviews & Exclusives
Verifone Services Shift Drives Top-Line Growth

March 09, 2018
Verifone is in the midst of moving beyond the terminal to embrace commerce driven by software. In meeting 1Q Street results, Verifone CEO, Paul Galant, said that the double digit growth in service revenues, prove that investments in commerce and the cloud are reaping big returns.

Quick Reads
US Adds 311,000 Jobs in February, Lagging Behind Six-Month Average

March 10, 2023
Job growth continued but slowed as the U.S. added 311,000 jobs in February. That gain was lower than the revised 504,000 added jobs reported for January and the average monthly gain of 343,000 seen over the prior six months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in a Friday (March 10) press release. “The February employment report was […]

Priority Technology Moves Beyond SMB Payments With Company.com Partnership

November 05, 2019
Merchant acquiring and payments firm Priority Technology has teamed with Company.com to provide access to its full stack of technology, services and payments solutions to Priority Technology’s clients. The partnership...

Fiverr Launches Services Store For Gig Businesses

September 04, 2019
Fiverr, the company that matches freelancers to jobs, has announced a new eCommerce-based store with the intention of helping online businesses with services that support all their needs, the company...

Pitney Bowes Aims To Make Business Shipping Easy

May 08, 2018
Pitney Bowes has announced the launch of SendPro Enterprise, a cloud-based multi-carrier and PC postage software solution that gives companies greater control over all shipping activity and spending. With parcel...