Small Business

June 1, 2015 

Fifteen percent of small businesses have a mobile app, and another 18 percent are considering developing one in 2015 or later, according to a new survey.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

May 28, 2015 

A significant number of SMEs in the survey were unsure about the relationship between mobile and desktop searches, with 49% revealing they didn’t know if sales on their desktops sites had initially come from visitors viewing their products or services on

May 27, 2015 

Despite positive expectations for consumer spending to pick up after the cold and long winter, retail sales in April proved to be relatively flat and disappointing. But for those sounding the alarm that the tepid April numbers may reflect overall ...

May 25, 2015 

Digital interactions are expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores by the end of 2015, or $2.2 trillion, according to Deloitte Digital’s latest study, “Navigating the New Digital Divide.” This figure has grown considerably ...

May 25, 2015 

The company behind the app-building system Appsbar has created the Small Business App Challenge to inspire small business owners and operators to bring their products and services to mobile platforms.

May 19, 2015 

2Checkout, global payment provider, today announced it will partner with cloud-based account software FreshBooks to provide FreshBooks’ customers with an option to seamlessly accept international payments from both Asia-Pacific and emerging markets.

May 15, 2015 

The engagement letter not only sets out what services you will provide, it lays the groundwork for the client's role in making those services achievable. You can describe your plan to prepare tax returns, but that plan is contingent on the client ...

Gail Perry

May 15, 2015 

Now, business owners can manage all of their backend processes from one central hub. Workhub is built off Intuit’s QuickBase platform, but is designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of small- to medium-sized business owners.

Taija Sparkman

May 15, 2015 

Like the legions of smartwatches that came before, however, today’s generation will ultimately fail to grab the imagination -- or the wallets -- of the public.

Dave McClure

May 13, 2015 

Sage Life was developed to give small businesses an always-on network for collaborating across their organization, while helping to "cut out delays, uncertainty and wasted time."

May 13, 2015 

With this partnership, Sage has built a new solution called Sage Life on the Salesforce1 Platform, an enterprise Platform as a Service [PaaS], which enables small businesses to run completely in the cloud.

May 11, 2015 

Small businesses collectively make up 99.7 percent of all U.S. employer firms, employ nearly 49 percent of the private workforce, pay about 42 percent of the private payroll, and created 63 percent of all new jobs added during the past 20 years.