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Small-Business Owners Confident About Future Success
Small-business owners are battling regulatory challenges and the war for talent, factors that are negatively impacting their bottom line and potentially altering how they vote in 2012, according to the findings of The Hartford’s Small Business Success Study. Despite high unemployment rates, finding qualified talent is a challenge for 59 percent of small-business owners, according…
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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Gaining Ground in Midmarket: Gartner
By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the…
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Best Buy Acquires MindShift Technologies for $167 Million
Big box retailer Best Buy said that it has reached an agreement to acquire MindShift Technologies, a managed service provider for small and midsize businesses, for $167 million. The company provides cloud services, data center services and professional services to more than 5,400 clients and 25,000 managed desktops in markets throughout the United States. Through…
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CompTIA Report Finds Small Businesses Support Tax Simplification
IT trade association CompTIA released a study that took a look at how taxes affect small and midsize businesses across the country, finding that overall, across both business size and form, opinions of the tax system were similar in one clear respect: An overwhelming majority of respondents noted that tax compliance is especially challenging for…
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Soft Labor Market Reflected in Small Business Employment Index: Report
Small businesses created 30,000 new jobs in October, but employees are working fewer hours and making less money. While small business employment grew by 0.14 percent in October, equating to an annual growth rate of 1.7 percent, hours worked and compensation decreased by 0.2 percent and 0.06 percent, respectively. These were among the results of…