June 1, 2015
Small Business Mobile Apps to Double in Next 2 Years
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.
May 25, 2015
App Building Contest Focuses On Small Businesses
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 and FreshBooks Partnership Delivers New Online Payment Options to Small Business Owners
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
QuickBooks Workhub Helps Accountants and Small Biz Owners Streamline Management
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.
May 13, 2015
Sage Life Platform Gives Small Businesses Greater Insight
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
Sage and Salesforce Partner for Business Accounting, Payroll, CRM
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
The Best and Worst Cities to Work for a Small Business
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.
May 11, 2015
H&R Block Seeks Staff for National Small Business Accounting Unit
Block Small Business, H&R Block’s suite of cloud-based, centrally-supported services offered to small businesses throughout the country, will be hiring six positions over the next six weeks and an additional 15 to 30 positions in the next 12 months.
May 11, 2015
Women and Generation Xers Take Lead in Creating New Startups
Women are more likely to found startups than men (57 percent versus 43 percent), and contradicting conventional wisdom about the conflict woman face when it comes to business and family, most women (55 percent) reported a "great" work-life balance.
May 10, 2015
Sage One Accounting Gets New Features, Subscription Pricing Model
New features and a new pricing model are now available to small businesses who use Sage One Accounting, a cloud-based small business accounting, invoicing and management system from Sage North America. Sage One Accounting is available in free and premium subscription versions, offering features for electronic invoicing, cash flow management, and financial analysis. Designed for...…
May 5, 2015
Intuit Brings Back “Big Business, Big Game” – One SMB Will Win a Super Bowl Ad
To complement Small Business Big Game, Intuit will host its second annual QuickBooks Connect conference in San Jose, Calif., from Nov 2-4. More than 4,000 people attended the inaugural QuickBooks Connect event in October ...
May 4, 2015
Small Business Week 2015 Kicks Off with Slogan “Dream Big, Start Small”
Today in Miami and Boca Raton, Fla, the U.S. Small Business Administration kicked off National Small Business Week 2015. The theme this year is "Dream Big, Start Small." National Small Business Week is being held from May 4-8, and is an annual event ...