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Small Business Matters
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
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist specializing in transformative technology and innovation
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Ortsbo adds language translation on the fly
Real-time translation service currently supports Windows Live, Google Talk and Facebook Chat services; a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook is also available.
Social network for small businesses focuses on referrals
Manta, which claims about 30 million monthly visitors, adds features for creating social connections and collecting customer recommendations.
Wedding photographer streamlines contract process
Adobe EchoSign helped George Street Photo turn contract management into a digital workflow, cutting six days out of the time needed to collect client signatures.
PayPal will be a force to be reckoned with in mobile payments
Apparently, PayPal is gearing up for a mobile payments makeover by May 2012; its initiative will mark another turning point for small-business solutions options in this space.
When it comes to IT hiring, you might get less than you bargained
New research from CompTIA suggests that 8 out of 10 businesses are feeling the strain of IT skills gaps, as new technology priorities evolve quickly.
Synchroteam packages mobile workforce software for SMBs
Cloud-based application allows small companies to manage field service employees, allowing managers to check on locations and make new assignments in real time.
PaySimple eases electronic payments, cash-flow management
New mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms are a precursor to the company's planned expansion of its mobile payments services later this year.
Beware the human factor in SMB security
New research from Ponemon Institute and Trend Micro suggest that close to 80 percent of data breaches are related to risky employee actions.
3 considerations guiding SMB mobile app development
More adults are downloading and using mobiles applications downloaded to their smartphone or tablet, but their attention span for these apps is limited.