Author: Perry

Late payments have long been a challenge for UK small businesses, affecting everything from cash flow and growth plans to day-to-day financial stability. But the true cost often extends beyond the invoice itself. At Accountex 2026, Small Business Commissioner Emma Jones and AAT President Lucy Cohen highlighted a less visible impact: the time spent managing payment delays. Business owners now spend an average of 86 hours a year chasing unpaid invoices, creating a significant administrative burden alongside the financial strain. With the government proposing new powers to tackle poor payment practices, including a 60-day payment cap and stronger enforcement measures,…

Key PointsArcher Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) recently slipped below $5, extending a decline that has surprised many investors. Yet the sell-off doesn’t appear to reflect a sudden deterioration in the company’s business.Instead, it reflects something more subtle. The market is changing how it evaluates Archer.Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a “Double Down” signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same “Total Conviction” signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »A year ago, investors mainly cared about the company’s vision. Flying taxis…

While investors are concerned about a memory peak, analysts say the stock still looks cheap relative to various earnings scenarios. Source link

In partnership with Smart Data Foundry and The Centre for Economics and Business Research, Sage has published its latest SME Monthly Workforce Pulse research. This is drawn from anonymised payroll data from approximately 200,000 small businesses and provides unheralded insight into pay across the UK. The data is part of Data for Good, Sage’s commitment to help Small and Medium Businesses thrive using anonymised insights from our data and enabling better decision making by stakeholders. As such, smart managers and leaders can use SME Monthly Workforce Pulse to plan their next moves—such as competitive pay offerings that help retain staff. That’s what we…

ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the “ELIZA effect.” Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different computers, but only recently has the actual source code been unearthed from MIT’s archives. In Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI, just…

“The hood is bent, the radiator is cracked, and the front bumper is destroyed.” Source link

Paul Razvan Berg, co-founder and CEO of Sablier Labs, mentioned in a blog post dated July 13, that they have halted the development of their token-streaming protocol, although it will be kept in the maintenance mode until June 2028. All the existing flows will keep operating, and their core contracts are now available as open source. The decision marks the end of almost four years of intense work at Sablier. The company was the first to introduce on-chain money streaming, which is a method of transferring tokens constantly over a predetermined period instead of making one large payment. Berg explained…

Key takeaways A temporary VAT cut from 20% to 5% runs across the UK from 25 June to 1 September 2026, covering qualifying children’s meals, and family attractions with ticketing for children or families. For qualifying family attractions with a single, flat rate admission for all, the 5% rate applies to admission for every visitor, adults included. Children’s meals get the 5% rate only if sold as a children’s meal and eaten on the premises. Takeaways, regular meals listed on the menu, and any meal containing an alcoholic drink are excluded. Care needs to be taken because not all attractions…

You’re running your business from a laptop, maybe a coffee shop, maybe three time zones away from your last client call. A free Gmail or Outlook.com address doesn’t cut it anymore when you’re invoicing clients or trying to look like more than a one-person operation. What you need is email hosting that makes you look established without demanding an IT department you don’t have.I tested the platforms freelancers and small remote teams actually consider when they outgrow free email, weighing setup time, pricing transparency, and how well each one plays with a team that’s never in the same room. Here’s…

U.S. investors are about to get another straightforward way to play the red-hot market for memory chips. Source link