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Meta is making a play for Main Street. The tech giant is launching Meta Small Business, an aggressive initiative offering the 250 million small and medium businesses that use its platform a suite of new AI tools. The company is betting that smaller enterprises will drive its next growth phase as its core ad business faces […]
A swath of businesses and restaurants in Minneapolis is taking a significant financial hit as clashes between anti-ICE agitators and federal agents continue, with some saying the situation feels like the COVID-19 pandemic all over again, according to a city official. The protests have driven away customers hoping to avoid the unrest, leading to reduced foot traffic, […]
Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist Norton’s For Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist in Birmingham, Alabama, the artificial intelligence boom is a world away. While companies like Nvidia, Alphabet and Broadcom are lifting the stock market to fresh highs and bolstering GDP, Pappas is experiencing what’s happening in the real economy, one that’s far removed […]
This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees being escorted outside the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga. Corey Bullard/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP Last week’s sweeping immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia could spell […]
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty […]
Close-up of ‘Shop Canadian’ poster displayed in a local storefront in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on April 4, 2025. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Just across the U.S.-Canada border, some small businesses are taking tariffs personally. President Donald Trump has said his wide-sweeping tariffs, even on some of the country’s closest trade partners, will […]
Prestident Trump’s tariffs are socking US businesses across the board — but it’s the smaller companies that are really taking it on the chin. Small and midsize firms account for $868 billion, or about a third, of yearly US imports, according to the Census Bureau. While these companies are tiny compared to the likes of […]
The 25 percent tariff Canada began collecting on cars and trucks imported from the United States early Wednesday is not just the country’s latest act of retaliation against tariffs imposed by President Trump on Canadian exports. The estimated 8 billion Canadian dollars a year, about $5.7 billion, that those levies are expected to generate will […]
It’s not clear who will benefit if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on all wines and alcoholic beverages from the European Union, but it certainly would not be American consumers. The tariff warning was posted by Mr. Trump on social media Thursday in retaliation to 50 percent tariffs […]
The Trump administration is sending a startling message to corporate America: After three years as an international pariah, Russia could once again be open for business. President Trump is pressuring Ukraine to accept a deal to end the war. And Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, told a delegation from Moscow in Riyadh last week […]
