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Quark Promote Enters Web-To-Print Market

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:00 PM ET | Nov 19, 2009

Buying print services over the Web isn't new, but design-software maker Quark is trying to up the ante with templates that pull together everything from brochures to business cards with a common theme. Oh, and free shipping, too.

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Small Business Economic Forecast: Cautious, With A Chance Of Pay Cuts

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:14 AM ET | Nov 5, 2009

A CDW survey finds that as the economic malaise drags on, less than half of SMBs are still optimistic about growth. SurePayroll, meanwhile, also notes drops in optimism, perhaps because small business salaries are taking a dive.

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PayPal Opens Up And Gets Cheaper

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:42 AM ET | Nov 4, 2009

At PayPal's inaugural developers conference here in San Francisco, PayPal reiterated its commitment to opening up its technology platform and backed up the promise with new and improved APIs and significant cuts in the prices it charges to process payments. In the long run, this could mean new ways for small and midsize companies to charge customers and even pay their own bills.

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Openbravo And Ubuntu: A New Small-Biz ERP Option

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:03 PM ET | Aug 5, 2009

Openbravo and Canonical have partnered on an open-source ERP offering that could prove attractive to small and midsized businesses.

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Quicken 2009 For The Mac: On Its Way Or Gone Away?

Posted by Jake Widman 03:29 PM ET | Jul 8, 2009

Mac-using small businesses who rely on Quicken have been eagerly awaiting the 2009 version of the basic financial and accounting package, which was supposed to be out this summer. Intuit has recently scrubbed mention of the new version from its website, however, raising questions about when and if the software will ever ship.

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Online Sales Tax Brouhaha Hits More SMB Amazon Affiliates

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:34 PM ET | Jun 29, 2009

Amazon.com has dropped affiliate relationships with small businesses in North Carolina and Rhode Island as the states prepare to implement new laws requiring the company to collect online sales tax.

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Adaptive Planning Says Challenging Economy Requires More Sophisticated Planning Tools

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:56 AM ET | Jun 29, 2009

Is the recession bottoming out or will things get worse? Is a comeback bounce around the corner, or are we looking at the dreaded "L-shaped" recovery where business remains stuck at a depressed level? More to the point, what is your company going to do about whatever scenario plays out?

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How Long Should Your Business Keep Its Computers?

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:18 AM ET | Jun 26, 2009

When does buying new PCs for your business become cheaper than NOT buying new PCs for your business? According to Intel, it's when those PCs reach the ripe old age of... 3.

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Challengers Trumpet Microsoft Office Compatibility

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:42 PM ET | Jun 19, 2009

From IBM's Lotus Symphony to eXPresso collaboration, alternatives to Microsoft Office are scrambling to improve compatibility with Office formats.

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If You're A Small Business, Your Credit Is Being Watched More Closely Than Ever

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:15 PM ET | Jun 15, 2009

Credit-score giant Experian is working hard to figure out which small businesses might have trouble paying their bills -- and that could mean trouble getting credit even before you get into trouble.

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Paying The Price For Proprietary Data Formats

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:08 PM ET | Jun 12, 2009

Most small businesses won't notice the impending death of Microsoft Money. Perhaps they should.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | Hardware & Software

Intuit Partner Platform Adds Federated Apps

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:15 AM ET | Jun 3, 2009

SMBs may benefit from increasingly connected applications as developers offer Web apps through the new federated applications capability of Intuit's Platform-as-a-Service.

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Take Credit Card Payments On Your Phone With Intuit GoPayment

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:50 AM ET | May 21, 2009

For today's mobile businesses, accepting payment from any location at any time is crucial to maintaining cash flow and increasing business -- cash only doesn't cut it anymore. A new offering from Intuit offers businesses another option for taking payment via mobile phones (and not just smartphones).

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Comcast A Finalist for "Worst Company In America"

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:19 PM ET | May 6, 2009

It seems that cable-TV and Internet giant Comcast can't win for losing. After being named one of bMighty's top four Technology Evil Empires last fall, it's now in the Final Deathmatch for The Consumerist's Worst Company In America.

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10 After-Tax-Filing Security Tips

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:40 AM ET | Apr 23, 2009

Filing your taxes isn't the end of the story. You've also got to be sure that you the electronic information you submit doesn't fall prey to identity theft. Think it can't happen to you? Tell that to the 10 million Americans who had their identity stolen last year.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Finance/Accounting | Security | Tips

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