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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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U.S. Near Bottom In Proportion Of Small Businesses

Posted by Jake Widman 08:43 PM ET | Aug 14, 2009

A recent study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research has found that, perhaps surprisingly, the United States has one of the smallest small-business sectors among developed nations.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Healthcare | International

Conduit Makes Its Free Browser Toolbars More Attractive To SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:38 AM ET | Jun 23, 2009

Custom browser toolbars are big in Latin America and Eastern Europe, but they never really caught on here in North America. But toolbar leader Conduit wants to change that with new Conduit Open features that create a kind of "app store" for toolbar components.

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Videoconferencing Pushes For SMB Adoption

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:08 PM ET | Jun 18, 2009

New HD video conferencing options from Tandberg, plus new members in a videoconferencing interoperability alliance show continuing momentum to get smaller companies to adopt the technology.

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Business & E-Business
Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Green Business | International | Networking & Communications

Midsize Companies Invest In Green To Save Some Green

Posted by Jennifer Moline 12:11 PM ET | Mar 4, 2009

A study released today by IBM has found that most midsize businesses are interested in green IT initiatives in order to reduce their use of electricity -- with a No. 1 goal of saving money.

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Smaller Companies Are Going Mobile

Posted by Jennifer Moline 03:18 PM ET | Feb 12, 2009

Two separate reports show that small and midsize companies are increasingly mobile. And with that mobility comes a reliance on laptops, netbooks, and smartphones.

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Crisis Survival Kit: Hot New Job Opportunities For 2009

Posted by Jennifer Moline 05:46 PM ET | Dec 17, 2008

With all the layoffs lately, leaving unemployed people to face a lot of competition in an already tight job market, prospects could seem bleak. But one of the goals of the incoming Obama administration is to create or save 2.5 million jobs in the next two years.

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6 Lessons To Take From Big Business

Posted by Jennifer Moline 06:42 PM ET | Nov 13, 2008

Small and midsize companies don't run like megacorporations -- and usually, the smaller businesses want to keep it like that. But often, big business got that way through shrewd practices and an ability to cut costs. Small -- yet growing -- companies could learn a thing or two.

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Smaller Businesses Drive SaaS Growth In China

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:22 AM ET | Aug 29, 2008

Worldwide, the market for SaaS is projected to grow 25% annually and reach $19.3 billion by 2011. Much of the fuel for the growth comes from China, where the annual growth rate is pegged 33% and almost 20% of the total market ($3.8 billion). And in China, the SMBs are the growth engine -- 42 million of them contributed 60 % of GDP and by 2012 there will be 50 million.

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Cloud Computing | Hardware & Software | International | Services | Software-as-a-Service

Olympic Surfing Can Cost Businesses More Than Time

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:20 PM ET | Aug 8, 2008

With the 2008 Summer Games' opening ceremonies now completed (though not broadcast until tonight in the U.S) it's a safe bet that small and midsize businesses are going to be losing more and more time to employees surfing for Olympic news. Time to be sure their clicks don't turn up malware as well as event standings.

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Business & E-Business | International | Internet/Web | Security | Social Networking

McAfee: Hong Kong Now Dominates Dangerous Domains List

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:50 AM ET | Jun 4, 2008

The malware map, like malware itself, keeps changing. McAfee's latest look at where the bad things grow shows a surge in .hk-based threats, moving the Hong Kong extension to the top of the list.

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Business & E-Business | International | Piracy | Security

McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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Ooops -- Microsoft Nags More Office Users Than It Meant To

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:12 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Microsoft's latest attempt to track down illegitimate copies of its programs -- in this case Office -- went a bit (and way more than a bit) farther than the company intended last week when it released an Office piracy detector worldwide, instead of to the four countries the program targeted.

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Sweets For The Cheats: Like Passwords For Chocolate

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:05 AM ET | Apr 17, 2008

It's silly -- and sexist -- season again, as a European security conference lets us know, as it does every year, just how easy it is to acquire passwords from workers. Namely, how many passwords can you get in exchange for a bit of chocolate?

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Business & E-Business | IT | International | Security

McAfee Volunteers Go For All The Spam They Can Stand (And Then Some!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:03 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Y'know those e-mails and offers and come-ons you're never never supposed to open or reply to? Well, McAfee is putting fifty, count 'em, fifty volunteers from across the world on an all-the-spam-you-can-answer diet. You get it, you answer it; you see it you click it -- every one of them for a month Seriously.

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Business & E-Business | International | Messaging | Security

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