Get ready for the social e-commerce wave
Within four years, more than 50 percent of e-commerce sales could be initiated via mobile devices and social networks.
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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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Data links managed IT services, cost reductions
New research from CompTIA suggests that almost half of businesses were able to cut IT expenses at least 25 percent by shifting some to some managed services relationships.
Is your small business an e-commerce laggard?
Companies that included an online sales component from early on were bigger, on average, than those businesses that stuck strictly to 'real world' sales activities.
Intuit, Bank of America team for online payroll service
Payroll preparation and tax filing service can be accessed from within the small-business owners online banking site.
Citrix overhauls SMB line-up, updates 'VDI-in-a-box'
Solution will let smaller companies deploy virtual desktop infrastructure more quickly; works with hypervisors from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.
5 ways 'bring your own device' will impact your company
Even if the idea of supporting employee-owned smartphones, tablets and notebooks is a pipedream, it will alter how your organization approaches mobile technology.
Enloop site offers feedback on small-biz business plans
By entering financials and strategy assumptions, managers can get pointers about whether they are taking their company in the right (investor-ready) direction.
CenterBeam takes on Microsoft with cloud collaboration suite
The big hook for CenterBeam's new service is that organizations don't necessarily have to ditch all their existing, on-premise Exchange or Microsoft Office infrastructure.
Business-to-business daily deals site targets SMB buyers
RapidBuyr specializes in goods and services for small businesses. Focused on 9 major cities today, it plans to offer regional deals for more than 40 markets by the end of 2011.
How safe is your surfing? Few SMBs have social networking security policy
Approximately 40 percent of small and midsize businesses have suffered a breach because of malware picked up by employees while visiting the Web, social networking sites.