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5 Tips To Help SMBs Stop Identity Theft

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:29 PM ET | Dec 9, 2009

Many SMBs like to think identity theft is someone else's problem. Sure, consumers have to worry about it, and so do large corporations that collect information on millions of customers. But not smaller companies, right? After all, who'd bother targeting a run-of-the-mill SMB?

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"Favorite Places On Google" Takes On Zagat, Yelp

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:37 PM ET | Dec 7, 2009

In addition to its announcement of Real Time Search today, Google also rolled out a program to put stickers in the windows of 100,000 local businesses in 9,000 cities across the country.

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HP Follows Dell, Lenovo, With All-In-One PC For SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:10 PM ET | Dec 7, 2009

Earlier this year, Dell and Lenovo broke with tradition and introduced All-in-One PCs meant for business users, not consumers. It must be a trend because now HP has followed suit with the HP Pro All-in-one MS200 Business PC.

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Cyber Monday Security Risks Are All Business

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:15 AM ET | Nov 25, 2009

Why Cyber Monday for the online shopping surge? Because for many, Monday's the first working day after Thanksgiving. Which means they can do their online shopping on business time, on the business dime, using business machines over business connections. You may not be able -- or want -- to do anything about the productivity drop, but at least you can tell your people to shop safely.

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Black Friday FOR SMBs, Not Just BY SMBs?

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:14 AM ET | Nov 24, 2009

Typically, Black Friday is a sales event where companies offer big discounts to consumers to spur sales the day after Thanksgiving. But in today's economy (ITE) companies are also pushing Black Friday to their SMB customers.

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Holiday Internet Marketing Grows, A QuickBooks Marketing App Gets Upgraded, And A New Entry-Level Shopping Cart

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:08 AM ET | Nov 24, 2009

A new Constant Contact survey says SMBs are boosting their Internet marketing for the Holidays, ClickFuel has upgraded its FuelStation online marketing dashboard to work with QuickBooks 2010 and QuickBooks Pro, and ProPay's CartLite is an entry-level shopping cart.

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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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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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Lenovo Debuts ThinkCentre All-In-One PC -- For Business!

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:42 AM ET | Nov 2, 2009

All-In-One PCs have traditionally been aimed at the consumer market -- you know, for the kitchen counter and such. But Lenovo says it's ThinkCentre A70z was designed specifically for small and midsize businesses.

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Carriers Renew Focus On SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:17 PM ET | Oct 23, 2009

AT&T and Avaya create a dedicated sales center for small and midsize businesses, while Sprint forms a Small Business specialty team to develop new products and services.

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Google Uses Q3 Earnings Report To Tout Services For Local Companies

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:45 PM ET | Oct 15, 2009

Not surprisingly, most coverage of today's Google's third quarter financial results focusd on the company's beating expections and resuming hiring. But bMighty is interested in the juicy details provided about the search giant's offerings for local businesses.

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Marchex Debuts Online Reputation Management For SMBs

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:01 AM ET | Oct 13, 2009

Many large enterprises spend small fortunes tracking how they are perceived online and in social media. But small and midsize companies don't have to worry about things like reputation management, do they? After all, who could be talking about them? Well, it could be more than you might think.

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Motorola Moves Wi-Fi Outdoors For New SMB Applications

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:48 PM ET | Oct 8, 2009

The company's new AP 7181 access point optimizes 802.11 Wi-Fi for outdoor applications with up to a quarter-mile range to make possible a wide variety of new SMB applications -- among other uses.

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Credit Card Compliance Still Poorly Practiced

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:46 AM ET | Sep 23, 2009

A new survey from Imperva and the Ponemon Institute finds that despite the rising number of data breaches, many companies still do not fully adhere to compliance standards. And many of those that are protecting credit card information are neglecting security when it comes to other, equally sensitive data. Smaller businesses may be having the most trouble with the standards.

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Lunch With Salesforce.com And Twitter

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:18 PM ET | Sep 9, 2009

Salesforce.com put on a fancy lunch spread at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco this afternoon to celebrate the launch of its Service Cloud 2 upgrade, and Twitter was invited. But I already blogged that... so I was more interested in what the cloud computing and social media bigwigs had to say about customer service. And they didn't disappoint.

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