Namrata Kath Hazarika | 25 May, 2013 Around 75 companies are expected to get listed in the BSE SME platform– country’s premier stock exchange by this financial year, said a Senior official from the BSE Ltd. “Another one year we… Read more ›
Home News Article May 25 2013 more articles from Photo Credit:Reuters/Stringer . Saturday, May 25, 2013 DEAD SEA, Jordan (Zawya Dow Jones)–International Finance Corp, a unit of the World Bank, is launching with several partners an investment facility worth up… Read more ›
The ‘SeedApp’ fund is intended to support UAE nationals who develop user-friendly and commercially-driven mobile applications that would support the initiative announced recently by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler… Read more ›
MOBILE, Alabama – The Business Forum of Mobile Baldwin Counties is hosting a free seminar for local business owners from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, May 29 at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center. “Small Business Palooza” will cover loan… Read more ›
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Last year in one of our Small Business Spotlight segments we told you about Thomas Fuchs, a custom Venetian glass chandelier designer who had a goal of making luxury items affordable for the average home. That goal turned into reality… Read more ›
NEW YORK — When Martin Rawls-Meehan started making adjustable beds in 2004, it was a foregone conclusion that key parts would be made overseas. It was cheaper to manufacture in Taiwan than in the U.S. And from Taiwan it was… Read more ›
Has your small business been stuck with some lame Web domain name because someone has already staked a claim? It definitely isn’t alone, according to a new national survey by Wakefield Research conducted on behalf of the organization behind the… Read more ›
(click image for larger view and for slideshow)Google has reduced the price on its Google Cloud Datastore, introduced a week ago at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, from 24 cents per gigabyte per month to 18 cents a… Read more ›
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Joyent president CEO Henry Wasik keeps a recent news story on the wall of his office “to remind the staff of what we’re up against.” The headline reads, “Amazon to Cloud Rivals:… Read more ›
Friday, May 24, 2013, 11:39 am By AppleInsider Staff Verizon this week launched a new iPhone application for its subscribers that gives access to the carrier’s cloud-based syncing and backup service. The official Verizon Cloud application is now available as… Read more ›
San Francisco-based Boundary is the first cloud-based IT operations management system and the company is leading the way in an evolving field. This past week, Boundary CEO Gary Read discussed his company’s cloud-based innovation with San Francisco Business Times. Read… Read more ›
FRANKFURT | Fri May 24, 2013 11:37am EDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows. SAP… Read more ›
I Inside Scoop SF Restaurants, Dining, Wine Spirits for the San Francisco Bay Area. J Jenkins, Bruce Proprietor of The 3-Dot Lounge. Jobs Get paid. Johnson, Chip The East Bay is his beat. K King, John Urban design and architecture.… Read more ›
LONDON, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – 31st May is extended deadline for National Business Awards 2013 The National Business Awards 2013 have extended the deadline for entries until 5pm on 31st May. Smith Williamson, the accountancy and investment management group, is… Read more ›
New technology traditionally runs through the IT department, but Paul Venezia wrote on his Deep End blog on InfoWorld that business units are starting to adopt and use software-as-a-service outside of IT. While this may look like it makes the… Read more ›
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 23, 2013) – SAM Auction Software, a leading private label commerce platform in the reverse logistics marketplace, today released version 2.8 of its auction management software to enable auction software as a service providers to… Read more ›
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Citrix SaaS Advisor (CSSA) program, which went live on May 1, is just the beginning of a long-term strategic play by Citrix Systems Inc.’s Online Services Division to expand its Software as a Service offerings —… Read more ›
Banks have confirmed their commitment to raise at least 1 billion euros for SME funds, with the first funds extended to provide long-term financing for small and medium-sized enterprises released during the second half of the year. Flemish minister-president Kris… Read more ›
A prosecutor at the General Prosecutor’s Office, Jaroslav Kozolka, was an agent of the communist-era military counter-intelligence service, the Sme daily reported on May 23, citing information from the archives of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.… Read more ›
Surachai Chitratsenee, third left, senior executive vice president of SME banking at CIMB Thai Bank, yesterday signs a loan agreement with Law Kim Choon, group managing director and CEO of ISCM Industries (Thailand) and Integrated SCM, to support expansio Segment… Read more ›
STANDARD Chartered Bank has initiated a campaign to help their Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) customers reduce costs in key transactions with the bank. The campaign that runs up to the end of July, this year, will see the bank’s… Read more ›
Britain’s biggest banks are lying that there is no demand for lending, from small to medium enterprises, as ‘challenger banks’ are funding SMEs more than ever , says UK business secretary Vince Cable. Speaking exclusively with IBTimes UK, Cable says… Read more ›
Ever since the economy took a nosedive in 2008, I have watched with total amazement as presidents, Congress, economists and the mainstream media have totally and completely ignored the single most important factor in the U.S. economy. Small businesses create… Read more ›
Conrad Wood at PNC Financial shows off the bank’s new Cash Flow Insights program that was created for small-business customers — one example of ways that large financial institutions are reaching out to small businesses. But owners of those businesses… Read more ›
Denver’s economy continues to gain traction, with some of the strongest population, employment and home-price gains in the country, said Jeff Romine, chief economist with the Denver Office of Economic Development. “Denver is the fastest-growing county in Colorado. It is… Read more ›
Compared to sizable companies, small to medium sized businesses (SMB) seem to be less concerned with mobile security because they feel too “unimportant” to be attacked. This, of course, is not true. In the first half of 2012, small businesses… Read more ›
Staying Alive The struggles of a business trying to survive. I get a fair number of e-mails from my readers. A couple of weeks ago one arrived from a gentleman named Michael Bloch He wrote: I am a senior at… Read more ›
SAN LEANDRO, California, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – For the second consecutive year, Ernst Young LLP named TriNet CEO Burton M. Goldfield a finalist for the Ernst Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award in the Northern California region. The… Read more ›
ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Dell today announced the final speaker line up for its fourth annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network event, to take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 2nd-4th June, and online for a global, virtual audience. The Dell Women’s… Read more ›
CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwired – May 23, 2013) – Redstar Ventures, the Boston-based venture foundry, today announced that prominent serial entrepreneur Gina Ashe is joining Redstar to lead its newest startup as CEO. Ashe joins veteran entrepreneurs Bill Wittenberg and Andrew Lau… Read more ›