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Small business owners wear many hats, often including that of an IT director.With limited time and resources to devote to technology, busy entrepreneurs can often make technology errors that have devastating effects on their business finances, reputation, and productivity — though free resources like SCORE, which offers mentoring and workshops for small business owners, can help.Fortunately, there are also steps — including the right tech investments — that a small business can take to avoid common pitfalls and grow their business. Here’s a closer look at the four most common small business tech mistakes entrepreneurs make and how to avoid…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Commuters and students in Philadelphia woke up earlier than usual on Monday to navigate service reductions that the region’s public transit agency has called more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the United States.The cuts took effect as the school year began in the nation’s sixth-most populous city and could herald similar moves by major transit agencies around the U.S. as they struggle with rising costs and lagging ridership. Reductions are also on the table at transit agencies in Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. In many places, funding has not kept…

The billionaire tech investor David Friedberg thinks the debate around whether “privilege” determines success misses the point — and says immigrants who succeed in Silicon Valley are proof.He made the argument in response to an X post by The New York Times finance columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who quoted the former British politician and Meta executive Nick Clegg as saying: “If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.””I was almost stopped in my tracks by that line in a profile of him. What do you think? I’m very curious,” Sorkin asked, referring to Clegg.Friedberg, the CEO of the agri-tech…

A human case of flesh-eating screwworm was detected in the U.S. related to the the latest outbreak of the parasite in Central America, according to officials.The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador, Andrew G. Nixon, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told Reuters in an email.On Aug. 4, the Maryland Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the parasite as a New World screwworm, but said it is travel-related.”The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low,” Nixon said.While…

PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what’s now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.This year is a different story.All summer he’s been scouting for brown and wilting leaves or ears of corn with kernels missing, and now it’s becoming clear that every kernel will count this harvest.…

Saquon Barkley, Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles are built for a repeat championship.Can they do it?That’s one of the top storylines entering the 2025 season.Barkley is coming off a record-setting season, Hurts proved doubters wrong and coach Nick Sirianni earned redemption when the Eagles dominated Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, preventing a three-peat to secure the franchise’s second Super Bowl title.The offense is loaded, a young defense is stacked with talent despite key losses and expectations are high in Philly.But winning the division will be the first challenge. No team has repeated in the…

The Make America Healthy Again movement has generated a lot of discussion about public health. But the language MAHA proponents use to describe health and disease has also raised concerns among the disability and chronic illness communities.I’m a researcher studying the rhetoric of health and medicine – and, specifically, the rhetoric of risk. This means I analyze the language used by public officials, institutions, health care providers and other groups in discussing health risks to decode the underlying beliefs and assumptions that can affect both policy and public sentiment about health issues.As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of…

SUMENEP, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of children in Indonesia lined up for free measles shots Monday as authorities rolled out a vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak that has caused 17 deaths.More than 2,000 children were infected in East Java province over the past eight months, according to officials who said 16 of the 17 deaths occurred in Sumenep district. Sixteen patients were not immunized and one did not complete the vaccines, according to data from Sumenep District Health Agency.Indonesia has reported previous outbreaks of the highly infectious disease, mostly driven by gaps in vaccination coverage in the world’s…

The Washington Commanders and top wide receiver Terry McLaurin have agreed on a three-year contract extension worth $96 million, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Monday.The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced.McLaurin initially did not report to training camp and then landed on the physically unable to perform list once he reported. He recently had been activated with the hopes of being available for the season opener on Sept. 7.McLaurin, who turns 30 in September, was going into the final year of his contract.…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Bryce Underwood was expected to take the first snap for No. 14 Michigan this season after being the nation’s top-ranked recruit last year and flipping his commitment from LSU.When Sherrone Moore officially named Underwood the team’s starting quarterback on Monday, the second-year coach insisted the job was not handed to the freshman.“He’s earned the opportunity,” Moore said. “It was not given to him.”The 6-foot-4, 230-pound Underwood said he plans to “shock the world” this season.“I feel like nobody’s seen a freshman like me,” he said in an interview with the Big Ten Network.Michigan opens Saturday…