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The ZDNet Small Business Center is a comprehensive and interactive destination for relevant technology news, information, help and how-tos catered to IT professionals in the small business arena. It includes custom blogs, webcasts and news and updates for the challenging and resource-constrained small business sector.
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Small Business Blogs
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Wave Systems, CDW team for SMB encryption solutions
By Heather Clancy | April 10, 2012 | 9:53 AM PDT
Agreement covers endpoint security and management solutions for administering self-encrypting drives and native Windows 7 encryption.
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The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a little ... odd
By David Gewirtz | April 9, 2012 | 12:21 PM PDT
While it's nice to be able to "borrow" books on the Kindle, our impressions are that the service is a little early for prime time, and -- frankly -- a little odd.
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Pinterest social network surges in popularity
By Heather Clancy | April 9, 2012 | 7:59 AM PDT
Traffic for the invitation-only online scrapbooking site spiked 50 percent between January and February 2012.
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4 ways your Website can be better
By Heather Clancy | April 6, 2012 | 8:49 AM PDT
A new report from Forrester Research suggests that only 3 percent of Websites offer a good user experience. Is your small business part of the minority or majority?
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Pinterest offers more opportunity to retailers than not
By Rachel King | April 6, 2012 | 1:30 AM PDT
Analysts weigh in on how valuable Pinterest could be or not to e-commerce strategies, and the overwhelming responses is in favor of the social curation site.
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Wasp combines barcode and label creation software for Office
By Heather Clancy | April 5, 2012 | 4:50 AM PDT
The software is targeted at small businesses that need to get a better handle on inventory tracking and related data updates.
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PayPal Payments opens up more channels for small businesses
By Rachel King | April 4, 2012 | 1:32 PM PDT
PayPal has introduced a new platform that offers small businesses many more options when it comes to how they accept payments from their customers.
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SMB e-commerce platform Goodsie adds analytics, email marketing
By Heather Clancy | April 4, 2012 | 7:02 AM PDT
New features will help small retailers better integrate their marketing and customer order databases.
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Desk.com beefs up features for SMBs with analytics tools
By Rachel King | April 3, 2012 | 9:01 PM PDT
Just a few months after rolling out, Desk.com is getting bigger and better for its business customers with some snappy new analytics tools. Owned and introduced by Salesforce.com at the end of...
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Tablets continue to intrigue small businesses
By Heather Clancy | April 3, 2012 | 1:59 PM PDT
Survey surprise as new data suggests tablets may already be more popular than notebook computers among small-business owners.
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Guide to social and cloud productivity
By Josh Gingold | April 3, 2012 | 12:32 PM PDT
A special presentation from the combined editorial resources of ZDNet and TechRepublic.
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Self-service platform lets SMBs advertise within mobile apps
By Heather Clancy | April 2, 2012 | 3:22 AM PDT
With AdLeads from Pontiflex, small businesses pay only for actual signups, not for accidental clicks that often happen while people are using their mobile device.
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Microsoft data suggests SMB cloud adoption poised to double
By Heather Clancy | March 30, 2012 | 10:50 AM PDT
Adoption of paid cloud applications and infrastructure services is especially rapid among companies with two to 10 employees, according to an SMB survey sponsored by the software giant.
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Google attempts to revitalize market research with Consumer Surveys
By Rachel King | March 29, 2012 | 10:03 AM PDT
The tricky part is that Google Consumer Surveys is sort of a carrots and sticks method.
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High costs of cloud adoption still major barrier, report says
By Rachel King | March 29, 2012 | 6:00 AM PDT
Although many of these companies look at the cloud favorably, most of them are expecting significant growth in data volumes over the next year -- some as much as a 100 percent increase.
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Headed for a business trip? Here are the iPad and iPhone apps that you should be packing in you device.
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If you're not an expert on cloud storage, like most of us, here are some of the best options at your disposal.
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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is jam-packed with interesting and well-hidden features. Ed Bott shows you a dozen hidden gems you might not find on your own.
Small Business Resources
Small Business News
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- Get small business sales management solutions with Google Apps 19th Mar
- Cloud computing tools for small businesses 8th Mar
- 10 ways tech can boost sales for SMBs 17th Feb
- PCI DSS compliance -- what does it look like for a small business? 25th Jan
- Office 365 and the future of Cloud 23rd Jan
- Social Imprints: Another small business goes Google 20th Jan
- Crowdfunding your favorite neighborhood small business 9th Jan
- Crowdfunding bill to open up social networks for raising capital 4th Jan
- Infographic: Small businesses and the cloud 19th Dec
- Small business? The cloud is the only way to go 14th Dec
- DIY: Serve up your small business with Amahi 8th Nov
- Online document management = sustainability for smaller businesses 2nd Aug
- SolarUniverse franchises the business of residential solar 27th May
- How Everblue is building the world's sustainable workforce 24th Feb 2011
- Corporate sustainability is not out of reach of small businesses 20th Apr 2010
- Recession is no excuse to let green policies slip 1st Dec 2009
- The most successful small business in the world 27th Oct 2009
- Unintentional entrepreneur? Here's how to start a small business 28th Aug 2009
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