Small Business
Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up
When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a customized email service and other workplace apps for free, it felt like a broken promise for Richard J. Dalton Jr., a longtime user who operates a scholastic test-prep company in Vancouver, British Columbia. “They’re basically strong-arming us […]
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These Veterans Started Businesses Inspired by Their Deployments
Over two decades of war, American service members overseas looked across the rubble, the destroyed fields and the ripped-up homes and saw possibilities. One tasted tea for the first time during his deployment; another was taken by flip-flops fashioned from combat boots. Female soldiers got to know women in Afghanistan and imagined economically empowered lives […]
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How You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet
While Meta adjusts, some small businesses have begun seeking other avenues for ads. Shawn Baker, the owner of Baker SoftWash, an exterior cleaning company in Mooresville, N.C., said it previously took about $6 of Facebook ads to identify a new customer. Now it costs $27 because the ads do not find the right people, he […]
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Behind Apple’s Aggressive Moves to Protect Its Trademark
The company has opposed singer-songwriters, school districts and food blogs for trying to trademark names or logos featuring an apple — or a pear or pineapple. Ryan Mac reported from Los Angeles and Kellen Browning from San Francisco. March 11, 2022 When Genevieve St. John started a sex-and-life coaching blog in 2019, she designed a […]
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How Stacey Abrams Thinks About Business
Stacey Abrams is best known as a champion for voting rights and a rising star in the Democratic Party. Credited with helping flip both of Georgia’s state seats from Republican to Democrat last year, she is making her second run for Georgia governor. Her career as an author of nonfiction, romance novels, and a Supreme […]
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Supply Chain Problems Have Small Retailers Gambling on Hoarding
Megan Searfoss has been hoarding sneakers in Connecticut. Ms. Searfoss, the owner of two running stores in Darien and Ridgefield, Conn., would normally have about 3,000 pairs of shoes in stock ahead of the holiday season. But as she watched supply chain concerns in Vietnam mount this summer and into the fall, she secured a […]
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Supply-Chain Kinks Force Small Manufacturers to Scramble
“We are not going to assemble iPhones in the U.S.,” Mr. Shih said. Some experts believe the problems will persist. “Our findings indicate the disruption could be for up to three years,” said Manish Sharma, group chief executive of operations services at the consulting firm Accenture. Even Two-One-Two New York, a strictly domestic manufacturer of […]
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Imagine Not Living in Big Tech’s World
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. I want to flash back to the rise and fall of a once popular storytelling website called Upworthy. It is one of a zillion examples of the power of Facebook and other technology superstars to make or break other […]
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