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  • Small Business Borrowing Climbing Again

    (Reuters) – Borrowing by small businesses jumped in August, data released by PayNet Inc on Friday showed, adding to evidence the economy is not headed toward a double dip recession as some analysts have feared. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to small businesses, rose 15 percent…

  • HP’s New CEO: What Apotheker’s Appointment Means for the Industry, the Channel

    The dust certainly has yet to settle on HP’s appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO and only time will tell what the ramifications of his appointment will be for HP, the technology industry and for HP’s channel partners. But here are some quick clues as to what Apotheker’s appointment may mean for the…

  • HP CEO Apotheker’s Salary at $1.2M

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co will pay its new chief executive Leo Apotheker an annual salary of $1.2 million, plus a signing bonus of $4 million to lead the technology powerhouse after a scandal toppled its last top executive. Apotheker, the former chief executive of the German software company SAP, will also be granted…

  • Cloud Computing Services on the Rise, Survey Finds

    According to research from non-profit trade organization Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), investments in cloud computing solutions and services are poised to increase in the next 12 months as opportunities for information technology (IT) channel companies and their customers come into clearer focus. Nearly two-thirds of end users (64 percent) said they plan to increase…

  • Proving IT Value Demonstrating a Channel Partners Worth

    Proving IT Value Demonstrating a Channel Partners Worth Employee ProductivityTraditionally measured by sales per employee, employee productivity is boosted 14.4 percent by a 10 percent increase in data usability. No Title Employee ProductivityThe median sales per employee of those organizations studied by UT researchers was $388,000. Improving the way employees are able to use data…

  • Skype, Facebook Explore Potential Integration

    Sept 30 (Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the situation. Under the proposed partnership, Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook…

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