Etsy is celebrating International Women's Day by supporting the female entrepreneurs who use its platform every day. 87% of the sellers on Etsy are women.
Kruti Patel Goyal is the General Manager of Seller Services at the company. She joins Cheddar to explain how and why Etsy is committed to promoting women and female entrepreneurs. The e-commerce site is committed to helping women build their ideal businesses on the platform. In fact, 1/3 of the female sellers on Etsy treat their business as their full-time job.
Internally, Etsy is also committed to promoting female leadership. 5 out of the 8 directors are women, making it one of the few public tech companies with gender parity on the board.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
Climate change doesn’t just mean more extreme weather – it also leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, tourism, and stresses infrastructure.
