Tag: business
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Verizon Unveils Cloud-Based Unified Communications Platform
Communications giant Verizon announced the rollout of cloud-based commercial Unified Communications & Collaboration-as-a-Service (UC&C) offerings, with capabilities including seamless call transfers from fixed to mobile phones and the use of “presence” technology, such as instant messaging, to initiate audio, Web and intra-company video conference calls both in and out of the office. The offerings, available… Read more
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Market Improving for Small Business Owners Looking to Sell
Categories: News and TrendsA survey of small business owners by BizBuySell.com, the Internet marketplace for buying or selling a small business, found 76 percent of responding brokers nationwide anticipate that 2011 will be a good year to sell. A generally positive feeling about economic recovery seems to be the driving factor for the encouraging reports about the business-for-sale… Read more
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Xerox Adds Three Color Printers, MFPs to Portfolio
Xerox Corp. is aiming at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) looking to create professional-looking documents without busting budgets with two printers and a multifunction printer (MFP) designed to deliver high-quality color in a compact package. The Phaser 6010 and Phaser 6500 color printer along with the WorkCentre 6505 color multifunction printer, are also all Energy… Read more
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N-Able Technologies Appoints Former Cognos Exec Chairman of the Board
Remote network and systems management software vendor N-Able Technologies announced that enterprise software industry veteran Alan Rottenberg has been appointed chairman of the company’s board of directors. Rottenberg held several senior management roles at Cognos, now owned by IBM, from 1989 until 2002 including senior vice president roles in marketing and business strategies, business intelligence… Read more
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Building a Business that Reflects Your Lifestyle
Categories: News and TrendsI’m starting to think that I need a therapist. My last column focused on the decisions that drive growth “your way“. There is a predominant idea that there are two kinds of companies, lifestyle and growth businesses. The lifestyle business is a business that is focused on supporting the owner’s lifestyle. Wikipedia has a good… Read more
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Small Business Dogged by Essential But Unproductive Tasks
Small business communications company Fonality released the findings of the “2011 Report on UC and Cloud-based Services for SMBs” conducted by Webtorials. The study examined the productivity and communications challenges of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). Findings revealed that knowledge workers at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) spend 50 percent of their workday on necessary,… Read more