Tag: business
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Clickatell, ChamberofCommerce.com Partner on Business Connectivity Platform
Categories: News and TrendsIn an effort to continue providing SMB owners with Web-based technology and services to help them grow their businesses, ChamberofCommerce.com has agreed to an online partnership with Clickatell, a specialist in Personalized Priority Messaging (PPM) through all media devices. Underlining the importance for businesses to integrate new technologies into their marketing strategies, ChamberofCommerce.com said it… Read more
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Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure
The birth of a VAR typically goes something like this: the employee of an IT service provider comes to the realization that he can do the same work himself and collect the profit without having to answer to superiors he might disagree with. The employee quits and calls on a few of the clients he… Read more
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Intel Earnings Strong as Mobililty, Cloud Computing Grow
Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business spending and emerging markets are driving demand for Intel’s traditional businesses. Company executives are expecting the momentum to continue for the rest of 2011 as the company strengthens its presence in the mobile device segment. During an April 19 conference call with analysts and… Read more
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Small Business Turning to the Cloud for Storage, Web Hosting
Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67 percent) and Website hosting (56 percent), according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and Web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by… Read more
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Outsourcing Market Declines on Restructuring
Categories: News and TrendsA new study out this week showed that the global outsourcing market declined significantly over the last year due to companies spending less money renewing deals with their existing outsourcing vendors. Released by TPI, an Information Services Group company, the first quarter 2011 Global TPI Index showed that the total contract value of commercial outsourcing… Read more
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Payment Solutions Dumps Oracle, HP for IBM
IBM has announced that Payment Solution Providers has selected an IBM system z mainframe running DB2 over a system comprising Hewlett-Packard servers running Oracle database systems. IBM said PSP is consolidating its entire IT infrastructure on the IBM System z mainframe server with IBM information management software to support key business operations such as credit… Read more