Long-time small-business advocate Heather Clancy translates the latest SMB trends -- from e-commerce technologies to cost-effective applications, hardware, collaboration tools and cloud services that improve SMB efficiency.
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues.
The SlideShark presentation viewer is one of the top productivity applications for small businesses on Apple iOS. A new HTML 5 player should broaden Brainshark's presence on the Android platform.
The cloud-based application goes beyond to-do lists to help organize all the documents, conversations and tasks associated with a given project.
The emergence of mobile payment platforms is inspiring a flood of new applications that aspire to help small businesses ditch the paper punchcards many currently use to track purchases and reward repeat customers.
FedEx Office, Office Depot, Go Daddy and Intuit are among the companies that will offer discounts to very small businesses through the online business management platform.
The winter upgrade to the credit-card processing service integrates a range of features designed to aid with real-time marketing and promotions.
Wave thinks integration, Xero eases reporting and Kashoo updates iPad app.
Pricing for the NAS device, which uses both hard disks and solid state drives, starts at $599.
The Los Angeles-based startup, which makes nutritious beverages for the fitness-conscious, has cut report processing time, reduced data entry errors and accelerated reimbursements by using ExpenseCloud.
The company's new community site offers financial resources, case studies and (of course) technology suggestions for fast-growing businesses.
More than a half-million companies are extending the database platform to improve internal workflows and automate paper-driven processes.