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Small Businesses Know More About the Cloud: Fonality
Small businesses are increasingly becoming educated about the benefits cloud computing holds for their companies, according to a report from Fonality, a business communications company. Fonality released the results of a survey conducted by Webtorials, which measured 2012 communications goals and challenges for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The "2012 Small and Medium-Sized Business Communications…
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IDC: Smartphone, Tablet Adoption Growing in Global SMB Market
Increased adoption and personal use of advanced technology is paying dividends for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) around the world as the consumerization of IT continues to expand, especially in developing countries, according to survey research from IT research firm IDC. The report found that SMBs in developing countries are much more likely to encourage…
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Microsoft Partners With BT to Push Lync Voice Services Into Cloud
In what may be a sign of the times, Microsoft is expanding the footprint of its Lync platform further into the cloud. The company has launched a pilot program with telecom giant British Telecom to begin offering an enterprise-class platform to host dedicated Microsoft Lync Voice service. The pilot augments BT’s existing global Managed Lync…
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Small Business Hiring, Compensation Up in December: Intuit
Small businesses created 55,000 new jobs in December and employees worked more hours and made more money, according to the results of this month’s update of the Intuit’s Small Business Employment Index, covering the period between Nov. 24 and Dec. 23. The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.3 percent in December,…
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Intuit Offers GoPayment Card, Facebook Store for SMBs
As part of its GoPayment mobile payment offering, Intuit announced the launch of the GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card. The card expands Intuit’s strategy beyond processing credit cards on a mobile device to offering the convenience of a Visa prepaid account linked to GoPayment. The company also recently launched SimpleStore for Facebook, allowing any current SimpleStore…
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Autotask Passes Ownership of VARStreet Through Employee Buyout
Autotask, a provider of hosted IT business management solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement to transfer ownership of its VARStreet quoting and e-commerce product line, including all ongoing development, sales, hosting, implementation, support and billing, through an employee buyout. Autotask software manages critical business operations and processes for technology services-centric organizations, and its software-as-a-service…