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Small Business Appetite for Loans Improves, But Not Enough
(Reuters) – Small businesses are borrowing more than they were at the depths of the recession, but their appetite for loans remains poor, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed. The Thomson Reuters/Paynet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, jumped 12 percent in April from…
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Vast Majority of Businesses Would Support Personal iPads, Survey Finds
An informal survey by server and desktop virtualization specialist Citrix Systems found an overwhelming majority of businesses would support the adoption of Apple’s iPad, which has moved 2 million units since its debut in April. The preliminary results of the survey were posted by the company’s vice president of community and solutions development Chris Fleck,…
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How to Get Top Dollar When You Sell Your Business
How to Get Top Dollar When You Sell Your Business If you are considering a sale of your business, make sure to optimize it ahead of time to get the best sale price, says Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance, who also consults with MSPs on M&As through his firm Weaver & Associates. Here’s a…
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Netbooks Still Red Hot
The market for netbooks or mini-notebooks is still expanding, with shipments expected to reach 58 million units in 2010, as consumers and business users continue to look for low-cost computing alternatives, according to a report from research firm ABI. In 2009, netbook shipments topped 36 million units, which was higher that ABI’s original forecast of…
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Citrix Partners with HP, Dell, McAfee, Wyse, More to Help VARs
Citrix is taking this advice to heart: it’s better to show than it is to tell. The Citrix Virtual Computing Demo Center was one of several announcements by Citrix and its vendor partners at the event the week of May 10, 2010. The demo center lets channel partners prepare for a demo and provision a…
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Top 5 Ways to Close the Deal with the CFO
Top 5 Ways to Close the Deal with the CFO IT’s Relationship with the CFOIncreasingly, IT is moving right under the CFO. A recent report by Gartner had 42 percent of IT organizations reporting into the CFO, and 53 percent of CFOs said they wanted IT to report up to finance. That means if you’re…
