Coopetition has major advantages. Here's how small businesses can work together toward a common goal while still competing in other areas.

High tariffs changed the way small companies did business in 2025. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled many tariffs illegal, they want their money back.

Employers and workers need a stable, predictable U.S. trade policy.

Millions more small-business employees gained access to 401(k)-style retirement plans in recent years, a result in part of new types of plans like the pooled employer plan, or PEP.

Fort Wayne, Indiana / Syndication Cloud / February 16, 2026 / Aptica, LLC Small Business IT Strategies Shift in 2026 as

Local service-providers are attractive to PE because they are largely internet-proof. “Amazon can’t wash your car, they can’t work out for you, they can’t deliver your coffee,” says Scott Romanoff of Franchise Equity Partners, a PE firm. Often a handful of such businesses are acquired and merged into a chain.

Dennis Devine joins the San Francisco-based banking giant after a stint at Chicago-based Alliant Credit Union, which grew rapidly during his four years at the helm.

Small businesses are rapidly becoming some of the biggest new adopters of 401(k) plans, opening up retirement coverage to millions of workers who have historically had little or n

Merchant cash advance funders are increasingly being listed as major creditors when small and even midsize companies file for bankruptcy, highlighting a surge of activity in a largely unregulated area of alternative business financing.

The state's Main Street businesses reported higher sales expectations, helping boost its score in the National Federation of Independent Business report.