Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say

After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley pledged on LinkedIn and elsewhere to honor past customer payments. “We’re honoring all prepaid Bench services even though we will not have the revenue from that directly ourselves,” Tinsley said in an interview with...

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Consumer sentiment drops in March to 57.9, according to University of Michigan survey, worse than expected

Consumer sentiment took another hit in March as worries intensified over inflation and a slumping stock market, according to the University of Michigan's latest sentiment survey released Friday.The survey posted a mid-month reading of 57.9, which represents a 10.5% decline from February and was below the Dow Jones consensus...

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Shares of DocuSign surge 14% on strong earnings, AI boost

Docusign rose more than 14% after reporting stronger-than-expected earnings after the bell Thursday."We've really stabilized and I think started to turn the corner on the core business," CEO Allan Thygesen said Friday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "We've become much more efficient."Here's how the company performed in the fourth quarter...

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