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Weather is Hurting Small Business
According to the Wall Street Journal, one-third of small business owners across the United States believes their business has been affected by adverse weather.
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Social Media Spending May Off
Social media is the go-to marketing tool for many successful small businesses, reports Fox Small Business. The results of a Linkedin Survey found 80% of businesses experiencing significant growth are spending more on social media advertising than their peers.
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Work Place Safety Top Concern
According to eWeek a new survey by Employers, a small business insurance specialist, work place safety is a top concern. Of those surveyed, 35 percent reported worrying about work place safety above other topics.
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Web Domain Expansion Awareness Website
New Dot Media has launched TheNewDots.org, a consumer awareness and education website dedicated to the ICANN new top-level domain internet address expansion currently under way.
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Virtualization without the Complexity for All Sized Businesses
ShoreTel, provider of phone systems and unified communications (UC) solutions for the cloud and premises, has launched ShoreTel 14.2 which allows companies of all sizes to deploy a ShoreTel communications system in a virtual environment. ShoreTel 14.2 delivers greater flexibility for customers, with the ability to mix and match hardware-based and virtual appliances in a single network, all managed using a single web-based management interface. With ShoreTel 14.2, customers may now select the UC deployment model that best suits their business and infrastructure needs - virtual, physical or any combination of both. The benefits are immediate - reduced hardware and operational complexity, higher application availability, increased scalability and reliability.
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Another Data Breach Compromises User Data
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, reported a data breach, reports Fox Small Business. Hackers gained access to user names, encrypted passwords emails, and addresses for a number of users.
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Small Businesses Outsourcing
A working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that many small businesses are using outsourced foreign labor, reports the New York Times.
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Another Date Change for Obamacare
According to the Washington Post, the White House has pushed another Obamacare start date back. The Employer Mandate, which requires businesses with at least 50 employees to offer coverage, has been pushed back another year. The new Employer Mandate takes effect in January of 2015.
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Small Business Sales Down
The recently released Sagework’s Private Company Report shows that in 2013 small businesses experienced the lowest growth rate since 2009, reports Fox Small Business. Private company sales grew 5.4% in 2013, down 8.9% from 2012.
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Small Business New Target of Hackers
According to Entrepreneur, a report by Symantec shows that in 2013 31% of all hack attacks were directed at businesses with less than 250 employees.
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