Google Ad Grants Now Lets Nonprofits Optimize for Shop Visits
Google has lifted the restriction on using “shop visits” as a goal in its Ad Grants program, allowing eligible nonprofit accounts to optimize campaigns for real‑world foot traffic. The change lets advertisers align bidding with Maps and location‑driven search results, turning offline visits into a measurable conversion. Nonprofits, museums, places of worship and other location‑based organizations can now directly tie ad spend to in‑person engagement. The update requires a simple account‑level goal toggle to activate the new capability.
NABA and TSCPA Partner on Accounting Pipeline
The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) and the Tennessee Society of CPAs (TSCPA) have formed a partnership to combat the accounting talent shortage. The collaboration will coordinate student‑focused programs, mentoring, networking, and professional‑development initiatives. TSCPA becomes the first state...
Study: Premium Video Ads Outperform YouTube
A new Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) study, conducted with TVision, finds premium video platforms on connected TV outperform YouTube in key engagement metrics. Across Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max and other services, premium platforms deliver 33% higher co‑viewing, 49% longer session...
Q&A: Financial Lessons From Northwell’s ACO
Northwell Health, a long‑time participant in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, has generated shared savings while treating about 90,000 attributed beneficiaries and is gearing up for downside risk in 2027. The system focused on care coordination, especially mental‑health screening and...
Comcast Advertising Names James Borow GM Of Universal Ads
Comcast Advertising promoted James Borow to general manager of its Universal Ads self‑service platform. Borow, formerly VP of product management and engineering, helped launch the product and will now steer strategy, operations, and execution as the service enters its second...
CSX CEO: Flat Industrial Results Holding Back Railroad Freight Growth
CSX Chief Executive Steve Angel told investors that flat industrial production worldwide is the primary reason railroad freight volumes have stagnated. He noted that China’s growth engine has faded, Europe never delivered growth, and emerging markets lack the scale to...
CalPERS Wants Its GPs to Do Better on Transparency
CalPERS, the $613.7 billion California public‑employees pension, announced it will require its private‑equity general partners to provide far greater transparency on portfolio‑company data. CEO Marcie Frost said enhanced visibility will sharpen risk management and fulfill fiduciary responsibilities. The fund plans to...
Expeditors Numbers Reflect Difficult Ocean Freight Market in 4Q
Expeditors International reported a weak fourth quarter 2025, with ocean freight tonnage down 6% year‑over‑year and revenue slipping 3% to $2.86 billion. Operating income fell 17% to $250.9 million and net income dropped to $200.7 million, while salaries and other expenses rose 6%....
Financial Details Emerge In Hall’s Lakeland Exit
MARC Radio Group has finalized a purchase of Hall Communications' radio stations in the Lakeland‑Winter Haven market, marking the broadcaster's exit from the region. The deal, disclosed by RBR+TVBR, includes financial terms that reveal the price MARC paid to acquire...
Blumira Lands in Pax8 Marketplace, MSPs Get a Scalable Path to Managed SIEM
Blumira has entered the Pax8 Marketplace, allowing managed service providers (MSPs) to purchase, provision, and bill a full‑stack security operations platform through the same portal they use for cloud services. The integration eliminates separate sales and onboarding steps, enabling MSPs...
Reduce Inequality to Address Affordability
U.S. income inequality has deepened sharply from 1974 to 2024, with the bottom four quintiles’ share of total earnings falling from 62 % to under 55 % while the top 20 % rose to 52.2 %. The top five percent’s income share surged 40 %,...
Spirit Airlines Is Betting on This Air-Travel Trend as It Prepares to Emerge From Bankruptcy
Spirit Airlines announced a deal with creditors that will allow it to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy by late spring or early summer 2026. The restructuring will shrink the carrier’s balance sheet, cutting debt from $7.4 billion to about $2.1 billion, and will trim...
Med Gasoline Market Diverges From Northwest Europe
The Mediterranean gasoline market is diverging from northwest Europe as several key fluid catalytic cracker units undergo maintenance, notably Helleniq Energy’s Aspropyrgos refinery in Greece and Eni’s Milazzo refinery in Italy. With offshore capacity constrained, February‑March spreads have turned backwardated—a...
The Mistakes That Make Founders Invisible
Founders often blame outbound for low reply rates, but the real issue is a flawed mental model that treats outreach as a volume problem. The article argues that outbound should be a learning system where hypotheses about the ideal customer...
Dillard’s Holds Steady at the Holidays
Dillard’s reported flat Q4 performance, with retail sales slipping 1% to $1.9 billion and net income falling 5% to $203.7 million. Gross margin held steady at 36.1% while online traffic surged 19% year‑over‑year, offsetting flat in‑store visits. The retailer highlighted a modest...
USD/JPY Price Forecast: Bullish Bias Builds Above 155.00 Support
USD/JPY rose to 155.70 on Tuesday, up 0.64% after hitting a daily high of 156.28. The move follows comments from Japan’s prime minister signaling caution on further BoJ rate hikes, which have kept yen pressure alive. Technically, the pair sits...
Disney+ Taps Daniel Burman as Latin America Original Content Head
Disney+ has appointed Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman as head of original content for Latin America, starting March 25. Burman will lead creative development, talent cultivation, and integrate Latin American storytelling into Disney’s global portfolio. He brings experience from founding Oficina...
Japan’s Farm and Food Exports Hit New High As Trade Patterns Shift
Japan’s agricultural, forestry and fishery exports reached a record ¥1.7 trillion in 2025, up 12.8% year‑on‑year, marking the 13th consecutive record. Growth was driven by strong demand for scallops, green tea and sake, with the United States and China remaining the...
Politico Expands to Australia With ‘Playbook’ Newsletter
Politico announced it will launch a Canberra‑based edition of its flagship “Playbook” newsletter in the third quarter of 2026, marking the outlet’s first foray into the Australian market. The company rehired Ryan Heath as Australia Launch Editor to lead the effort...
Xometry Begins a Transition to a New CEO
Xometry announced that President Sanjeev Singh Sahni will assume the chief executive role on July 1, succeeding co‑founder Randy Altschuler, who will become executive chair. Sahni, a former Wayfair executive, has overseen global operations, product development, and technology since his...
Exa Capital Acquires Health Care Workforce Platform StaffReady
Exa Capital has acquired StaffReady, a SaaS platform that manages clinical workforces across hospitals, labs, and pharmaceutical testing firms. The platform streamlines staff scheduling, compliance, and inspection readiness, helping health‑care organizations reduce operational bottlenecks. StaffReady will remain independent with its...
Poland's Ferrous Scrap Exports Fall; Ukraine Imports Hit Record
Poland’s ferrous scrap exports to non‑EU markets slipped 8.6% in 2025, falling to 1.204 million tonnes after three years of growth. Shipments to India, Pakistan and Morocco dropped sharply, while volumes to Turkey rose 2.4% and exports to the United States...
How Revenue Optimization Drives B2B Growth: Strategies, Cycle, and Checklist for 2026
Revenue optimization is a data‑driven framework that fixes friction in the B2B sales journey, allowing firms to grow profit without increasing lead volume. The guide outlines a four‑stage cycle—track, identify, test, measure—and shows how disciplined RevOps can boost win rates...
The Nova Scotia Case of the Unionized Employee Who Didn’t Work a Single Day: Gentleman V. Kings (County)
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled that accepting a union‑covered job makes a person an employee under the collective bargaining agreement, even if they never start work. Beverly Margaret Gentleman’s rescinded offer was deemed a termination of a probationary employee,...
Home Depot Beats Q4 Expectations Even as Housing Market Remains Challenged
Home Depot reported fourth‑quarter sales of $38.2 billion, a 3.8% year‑over‑year decline, yet the results beat analyst expectations. Net income slipped 14.2% to $2.6 billion and operating income fell 14.4%, reflecting pressure from a sluggish housing market. Full‑year sales rose 3.2% to...
COSO Releases Guidance on Internal Controls for AI
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) issued new guidance on internal controls tailored for generative AI. It adapts COSO’s five‑component framework—control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information & communication, and monitoring—to address AI’s probabilistic, dynamic, and scalable nature. The guidance...
How Wealth Management Partnerships Can Benefit CPA Practices
CPA firms face a talent crunch and rising technology costs, prompting many to reconsider traditional growth routes. In 2024, financial‑services acquirers accounted for 32.9% of accounting sector deals, up from 18.9% in 2023, highlighting a shift toward wealth‑management partnerships. Such...
NEXUS Panelists: Lack of Exits, Compressed PE Returns Complicating LP-GP Dynamics
At the NEXUS 2026 conference, private‑equity executives highlighted that a slowdown in exits and tighter returns are straining the traditional LP‑GP relationship. Mike Lazorik of Texas TRS warned that alignment “has never been more complicated” as limited partners push for...
Thinking About DAM In 2026? Start Here
Rich media now permeates every digital channel, prompting organizations to move digital asset management (DAM) from creative‑team silos to an enterprise‑wide foundation. Modern DAM platforms offer automated tagging, metadata enrichment, and embedded brand guidelines, enabling broader, safer access across revenue...
Google Unveils Two New US Data Centers As $185 Billion Commitment Gets Underway
Google announced the construction of two new data centers—one in Wilbarger County, Texas, and another in Pine Island, Minnesota—as part of a $185 billion capital‑expenditure plan for 2026. The Texas site will employ advanced air‑cooling technology and partner with AES Corp....
Bruin Hires Managing Director to Focus on Fan, Media Opportunities
Bruin Capital announced the hiring of Adam Hasiba as its first Managing Director, tasking him with expanding the firm’s sports, media and fan‑engagement platform. Hasiba leaves consumer‑focused private‑equity giant L Catterton after more than a decade, bringing deep experience scaling media‑centric...
Most Platform Teams Build Products, but They Don’t Know It
Platform teams often treat internal platforms as pure infrastructure, overlooking their product nature. By failing to define specific user personas, they ship technically complete features that see low adoption. The article stresses that rollout activities differ from genuine adoption, which...
GReminders Integrates with Orion's Redtail CRM
GReminders announced an expanded integration that embeds its AI‑driven meeting assistant directly into Orion’s Redtail CRM. The new functionality lets financial advisors generate AI‑powered notes, receive pre‑meeting briefs, and schedule client appointments without leaving the Redtail interface. By consolidating the...
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 Upgrades Workflows, Visibility, and Brownfield Migration
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 is now generally available, adding a visual UI‑driven search and import tool that lets teams bring unmanaged, brownfield resources into Terraform without writing code. The release also graduates Explorer to GA, delivering a centralized dashboard that records...
Motiva Announces US Group II Base Oil Posting Decrease
Motiva announced a $0.50 per US‑gallon reduction to its Group II, II+ and III base‑oil postings, effective 1 March. The cut could translate into contract price declines of 10‑15¢/USG for parties linked to Motiva’s postings or to basket indices, while blenders with...
Morningstar DBRS Changes Trend on BBVA's Long-Term Credit Ratings to Positive From Stable, Confirms Long-Term Issuer Rating at A (High)
Morningstar DBRS confirmed BBVA's long‑term issuer rating at A (high) and short‑term rating at R‑1 (middle), while shifting the trend on all long‑term ratings from Stable to Positive. The agency cited the bank’s resilient earnings, boosted by higher interest rates...
Short Takes: Home Prices Tick Up / Chase Offering Rate Discount / Bed Bath & Beyond Getting Into Mortgages /...
Home prices edged higher in the latest quarter, while Chase announced a modest rate discount to spur loan demand. Retail giant Bed Bath & Beyond entered the mortgage origination space, signaling non‑traditional players’ interest in housing finance. Bayview Capital began stocking GSE‑eligible loans...
The European Central Bank’s Next President May Decide the Fate of the Digital Euro
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde highlighted the digital euro as a core part of her legacy, noting its progress from research to a live policy effort. The project is now in a "preparation phase" with technical design and pilot...
Business Leaders Urge Ottawa to Extend Employee Ownership Tax Incentive
Business leaders, including CEOs of BMO, Scotiabank and tech firms, have urged the Canadian government to make permanent the employee‑ownership trust (EOT) capital‑gains tax incentive introduced in the 2023 budget, which provides up to $10 million in tax relief. The incentive...
The Evolving Nature of Direct Secondaries Valuations
Direct secondaries are emerging as a leading exit strategy for private‑equity portfolios, prompting a reassessment of how these assets are valued. Subu Parmeswaran of Valuation Research Corporation highlights that traditional static models no longer capture the nuanced risk‑adjusted returns of these...
UK to Remove Turkish HDG Quota Exemption
The UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) plans to strip Turkey of its developing‑economy exemption for hot‑dip galvanised (HDG) steel, moving Turkish shipments into the capped “other countries” quota. The move follows Tata Steel’s complaint that Turkish imports surged to 58,030 t...
Gemspring Sells Security 101 to Morgan Stanley
Gemspring has sold its stake in the cybersecurity startup Security 101 to Morgan Stanley. Gemspring originally invested in Security 101 in 2021, and the transaction marks its exit from the venture. The acquisition gives Morgan Stanley full ownership of the...
Charter Warns California Delay Could Jeopardize Cox Merger Timeline
Charter Communications has asked the California Public Utilities Commission to render a decision on its proposed acquisition of Cox Communications by July 16, 2026. The request stems from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Hart‑Scott‑Rodino antitrust clearance, which expires on September...
Geisinger Names Humana Executive as President of Health Plan
Geisinger announced Jeremy Gaskill, a veteran Humana executive, as the new president of Geisinger Health Plan and executive vice president of insurance operations, effective Feb. 23. Gaskill succeeds Karen Murphy, who stabilized the plan and cut operating losses since March 2025. He...
Basis Secures $100M Series B for AI Accounting Agents
Basis secured $100 million in a Series B round, valuing the AI accounting platform at $1.15 billion. The funding, led by Accel with participation from GV, Khosla Ventures and a roster of tech luminaries, will accelerate development of more sophisticated autonomous...
Kelli Valade’s Career Comes Full Circle
Kelli Valade, a veteran of Chili’s, Red Lobster and Denny’s, was named chief executive officer of the Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) in January 2026, shortly after leading Denny’s through a $620 million private‑equity deal. Valade brings deep operational, HR and leadership...
Mexico’s Cartel Violence Could Hit Economy and Insurance Segment: AM Best
Cartel violence erupted in Mexico after the killing of leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, halting flights and disrupting tourism in Puerto Vallarta. Tourism, which contributes about 10% of Mexico’s GDP, faces short‑term setbacks and longer‑term perception risks. AM Best issued a negative...
Wowza Appoints Jon Corley Chief Technology Officer
Wowza announced Jon Corley as its new chief technology officer, tasked with steering the company’s AI‑driven streaming strategy. Corley will shape the technology vision, engineering roadmap, and product‑innovation agenda to embed artificial intelligence throughout Wowza’s platform. The move aligns with...
New €34m Research-Led HealthTech Hub Launched at University of Galway
The Irish government and the EU have injected €34.3 million into a new ARC Hub for HealthTech, officially launched at the University of Galway. The hub, part of Research Ireland’s Accelerating Research to Commercialisation programme, brings together University of Galway, Atlantic...
Tetra Pak Redefines ERP Modernization with a Clean Core Strategy
Tetra Pak has replaced its heavily customized ERP landscape with a clean core strategy built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, leveraging SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX. The shift eliminated more than 10 million lines of custom code and drove 95 %...