How Can You Fix These Annoying (and Expensive) Accommodation Fees?

Many hotels have made their resort fees more explicit rather than including them in their room rates. For example, Phoenician, a Marriott Luxury Collection property in Scottsdale, Arizona, resort fee page On its website, it shows what guests get for a daily fee of $45 per room: Wi-Fi (value, $14.95), morning yoga ($30), one hour …

Google to Reduce App Store Fees for Developers to 15%

Google says it plans to reduce the cut it receives in subscription-based apps on the Play Store for devices running Android software, in final concession to regulatory pressure that questioned whether the company was overpaying developers. Inside a blog post On Thursday, Google said it will reduce subscription commissions to 15 percent for apps that …

JPay, a prison contractor, was fined for the fees he received from exes.

JPay, a financial services contractor that serves prisons, will pay a $6 million fine and compensation to settle claims the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has exploited by forcing former inmates to pay fees to access their own money. JPayThe CFPB, which is owned by private equity firm Platinum Equity Partners, has agreed to pay a …

How Two Start-ups Made a Wealth in Fees on PPP Loans

Also in late February, Blueacorn and Womply got an unexpected tailwind from a major rule change by the Small Business Administration, which oversees the loan program. The Biden administration is concerned that women and minority-led businesses are being disproportionately left out. overhauled the loan formula lending to sole proprietors, a group that includes contractors and …