There was a rather very good improvement when it comes to prioritization and budget for security software and services to protect their customers’ and their own most sensitive data by small and medium sized businesses. Many number of SMBs are now are keeping data security on their top IT priority compared to previous year, according [...]
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Increase in Installation of Basic Security Software by SMBs
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Oct 12, 2010
UK SMEs in Data Recovery Failure
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Many of the small and medium sized businesses in UK are still failing to protect the important data of their firms. This is according to a survey by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Acronis. About 600 small and medium sized businesses from France, UK and Germany took part in the study. It was accomplished to [...]
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Oct 11, 2010
SMB Ad Spending Grew Up In Q2 2010
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In second-quarter of 2010, there is an increase in search spending of small businesses, according to WebVisible. Small business ad advertisers expenditure on search advertising in second-quarter of 2010 was $2,231 which had an increase by 1.4 percent from first-quarter of 2010 and by 159 percent in second-quarter of 2010. Attorneys, dentists and general contractors [...]
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Oct 5, 2010
Small Business polled High Taxes as their Pressing Problem: American Solutions Monthly Small Business Survey
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The policies that are being put forward by the federal government are not solving the problem with the economy, as per the American Solutions monthly Small Business survey. The federal government itself is creating the problem. The high priority problems that small businesses are facing are high taxes and government regulation. Around 40,000 small business [...]
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Oct 1, 2010
Increase in Lending of Credit by Banks to Small Businesses
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It is the end of recession period. Many banks are identifying the importance of lending programs for small businesses. When small businesses have strong economic position, automatically more new jobs will be created and it will also strengthen country’s economy. On observing banks trends, one can easily understand that they are giving more importance to [...]
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Sep 25, 2010
Increase in Confidence on US Small Businesses: NFIB Report
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There was an increase in confidence on US Small businesses which rose to the highest level since September of 2008. It was majorly because the executives had become more optimistic about the economy, according to a report by NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business). An Index was published by the National Federation of Independent Business’s [...]
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Sep 24, 2010
Comscore: US Online Display Advertising Statistics
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As per Comscore report, JPEG display ads in the US led the market with 42 percent of impressions. While “leaderboard”-728 x 90 in dimension ads were the most commonly viewed display ad by size. Nearly 60 percent of US display ad impressions was standard GIF/JPEG type, in April. JPEGs contributed for 42.4 percent of ad [...]
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Sep 21, 2010
Census Bureau: US Lost 104,000 Business Firms in 2008
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According to the US Census Bureau, US businesses with paid employees lost almost 104,000 firms in 2008 which brought the total number to 7.6 million. Nevertheless, the number of people employed increased to 121 million. Businesses added approximately 300,000 employees to their payrolls. In County Business Pattern 2008, detailed annual information on the number of [...]
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Sep 4, 2010
Majority of small Businesses do not have knowledge about cloud computing: Techaisle
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As per a recent survey by Techaisle of small businesses within UK, US, Italy, Germany and Brazil showed that only 37 percent of SBs have just heard about cloud computing. In them, more than 13 percent did not know what exactly cloud computing meant. Around 44 percent of the respondents perceive that cloud computing means [...]
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Aug 26, 2010
82 Percent Small Business Owners interested to expand of e-mail marketing in Next 12 Months: Poll
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82% small business are planning to increase their e-mail marketing over the next year based on Weber Communications, which is polled of 2,579 small businesses. Also, this poll found 70% of businesses are getting in on it employing some sort of social media tactic and 77% say that integrating e-mail marketing with social media is [...]
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Aug 12, 2010
Small Businesses – Future Job Creators
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After the great recession, the main concern in the nation now is unemployment. Small businesses play a major role in filling this employment gap. US president Brack Obama recently declared an export policy target setting a goal of doubling the America’s exports in the next five years. He said that it will support 2 million [...]
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Jun 24, 2010