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The number of job openings in the U.S. increased by 374,000 in May and reached 7.77 million on the last day of the month.
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That figure was up from 7.40 million at the end of April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in a table from its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released Tuesday (July 1).
CNN reported Tuesday that the increase in job openings...
Software firm Cloudflare has introduced a tool to block bot crawlers from accessing web content without permission.
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The new offering, announced Tuesday (July 1), lets website owners decide if they want artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers to access their content, and determine how AI firms can use it. It also lets site owners set a price for access via a “pay per crawl...
Chaser integrated its intelligent credit control automation with the Sage Intacct accounting platform.
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The combination provides users with tools that can help reduce debtor days, assess credit risk and automate collections activity, Chaser said in a Monday (June 30) blog post.
“The integration between Chaser and Sage Intacct gives finance teams greater visibility over...
Open banking is proving to be a work in progress, certainly on the regulatory front in the United States, and in terms of technical issues too.
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As PYMNTS reported in May, the ultimate fate of the so-called “open banking rule,” also named Section 1033, is unknown. The rule helps govern the ways in which banking customers permission their data to be shares with third...
Looking for a travel-related business that’s actually booming during the year of COVID-19? It’s out on the water, in rented boats of every shape and size from kayaks to luxury yachts.
“We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very quick rebound, Bryan Petro, chief operating officer of boat rental and charter marketplace GetMyBoat, told PYMNTS. “From April [to August], we are...
In China, crypto over-the-counter (OTC) traders are being arrested in an attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, according to a report from CoinDesk.
Prominent OTC trader Zhao Dong, of crypto lending platform RenrenBit, was held up by police in the city of Hangzhou, the report says. Zhao has a prominent status among the community, and rumors online began to circulate. One poster relayed...
Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very convincing. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly cutting-edge that only the hopelessly uninformed would fail to recognize its value. The innovators said that they had picked him because he was smart and forward-thinking enough to see the potential. The investor, who prided...