Month: March 2021

Google Enhances Business Profiles For Stores With Delivery & Pickup

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago

Google is adding more information to Search and Maps about businesses that offer options for grocery delivery and pickup.

The information is getting added to search automatically, which means there’s no work needed on the part of businesses, but it’s an update worth being aware of.

This addition to Google Search and Maps is rolling out as part of a larger update which includes a number of other useful features.

We’ll look at the other features at the end of this article – let’s first go over the enhancements to Google My Business profiles.

New Information in Google My Business

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Millions More to Get Stimulus Payments Next Week, I.R.S. Says

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago
Credit…Eric Gay/Associated Press

Some of the most vulnerable Americans still haven’t gotten their stimulus checks, but millions of them who receive federal benefits should get their payments next week, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

People who receive benefits from Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, the Railroad Retirement Board and Veterans Affairs — but do not file tax returns because they don’t meet the income thresholds — were among those who

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Share of black employees in senior US finance roles falls despite diversity efforts

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago

Black employees held a lower share of top US financial services jobs in 2018 than they did more than a decade earlier, according to new research by the Financial Times, underlining the shortcomings of Wall Street’s long-running efforts to improve racial diversity.

The FT analysed the most recently available anonymised data on the demographics of 3.6m staff across 13,000 financial services employers in the US from 2007 to 2018. All companies with more than 100 staff were required to submit the information to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2007. 

Black staff account for 13 per cent of all finance

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Some home insurance rates increase in the Ozarks after hail storm last spring

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Home insurance rates could go up this year even for homeowners who didn’t file a claim. A new State Farm study finds Missouri ranked as one of the top states for hail damage claims in 2020. A local insurance agent explained about how that could affect rates all across the Ozarks.

“I’ve seen some pretty crazy increases,” said insurance agent Kyle Williams.

Williams said the rate to renew an insurance policy on a home typically increases every year.

“The cost of repairing a house is going to go up year by year anyways,” he said.

This

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How the Fannie Mae HomeStyle Loan Works: Process & Rules

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago

Buy a home and fix it up with Fannie Mae’s HomeStyle loan

Renovating a home often means taking one loan for the purchase and another for the renovation. And sometimes you may need to refinance your mortgage to pay down the renovation loan. Talk about expensive and time-consuming!

A HomeStyle Renovation loan can solve that problem.

The Fannie Mae HomeStyle loan lets you buy or refinance a home, and renovate it using the same single mortgage — which can save you a whole pile of money and hassle.

Fannie Mae’s HomeStyle loan is lesser known than the similar FHA 203k

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Personal protective equipment litter from the pandemic is killing wildlife

Ruben Onsu 3 weeks ago

Waste from lifesaving personal protective equipment is killing birds, fish and other wildlife across the globe, a study has found.Animals are fatally ingesting or becoming entangled in discarded latex gloves and disposable face masks, while others have started building their homes using the same material, researchers said.”As always with these single-use items, you’re not really looking after them and they end up in the environment really soon. They start becoming a real problem,” Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden and co-author of the report, told CNN Tuesday.”I think it’s ironic that the materials that protect … read more