Recent Articles
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Retailers Seek New Tech to Manage, Drive Sales
While retailers woo cash-strapped consumers, solution providers and their vendor partners are courting both brick-and-mortar and online etailers with technologies and solutions designed to reduce back-office costs, and enhance productivity and, therefore, the bottom line. Generally invisible to consumers, these systems range from back-end access to a plug-and-play global warehouse and on-demand shipping to hosted…
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Black Friday and the Recession: Why IT Solution Providers Care
After the turkey has been consumed and the football games have been played, retailers open their doors for the biggest day of their year – Black Friday. And e-tailers get ready for their biggest day, Cyber Monday. Why should IT solution providers care? Because consumer spending is two-thirds of the economy and it influences other…
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Give Thanks for These 12 Trends
In these tough economic times it’s easy to become a little overly despondent over future prospects. But with the annual Thanksgiving holiday staring us all in the face, now is as good a time as any to give thanks for 12 things should make the channel a more profitable place to work no matter how…
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Intuit Cuts Forecast on Small Business Sales
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Intuit Inc (NASDAQ:INTU), maker of TurboTax tax preparation software, posted a quarterly loss and lowered its full-year outlook, saying its customers were facing a challenging economic environment. The company cut its fiscal 2009 forecasts for sales of QuickBooks accounting software and for revenue from payroll and bill payment processing…
