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 specializing in transformative technology and innovation
Brightpearl is ramping up its U.S. presence through partnerships with several key e-commerce platforms. It isn't the only game in town for small businesses seeking better multichannel insight into orders, backlogs and product availability.
Wide Open Spaces acts as a social marketplace for a specific niche: hunting, fishing and outdoor gear.
Wix, which is behind a free HTML5 publishing and hosting service, now represents the Google Apps for Business portfolio.
Dell-Intel research shows that while most companies with less than 100 employees are leaning more on IT to fuel growth plans, just one third considers dedicated staff necessary.
Sure, many business communications have turned electronic. But for SMBs that still send out mass mailings, Seiko Instruments has released a new product lineup that starts at $62.50.
Hibu, the company behind the Yellowbook business directory site, introduces a new solution to help small businesses beef up their mobile websites and local search results.
Customers who sign up for the Concur Small Business Edition will also receive a 12-month membership with Regus, giving them access to more than 1,500 business lounges in 100 countries.
SearchYourCloud.com acts as a universal search tool that helps find items in more than one cloud-stored services without exposing that activity to the public.
The service, used by about 25,000 companies, consolidates analytics data for individual social networks into one place, allowing for comparisons.
A patent-pending identity theft feature displays an image of the credit-card holder every time a card is swiped.