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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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Small Business Supports Minimum Wage Increases
A report by the non-profit organization Small Business Majority finds small businesses are in favor of an increase in minimum wage, reports MLive. Although, many small businesses question whether an increase in minimum wage could be detrimental to their business.
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Why Your Business Needs a Recruiting Process
Establishing a recruiting process can help a small business find good employees, reports The Washington Post. Without a defined process for finding and hiring employees, businesses run the risk of missing out on good employees.
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Small Businesses Embrace Social Media Advertising
According to eWeek, a report from Ad-ology, over 80% of all small businesses surveyed planned to increase the amount of money they spend on social media advertising.
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Amdocs Expands SMB Capabilities
Amdocs has announced the release of Amdocs CES 9.1. The company's latest product suite introduces new social care, small and medium-sized business (SMB), and multi-play capabilities to allow service providers to give customers control of their experiences across any channel, network, service or device.
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Sharp Releases Cloud Portal Office
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, releases Cloud Portal Office, a first-of-its-kind software solution designed for an increasingly mobile workforce where companies need to share information while maintaining control and security over critical documents.
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TrackVia Revolutionizes Business Applications
TrackVia today formally unveiled a new version of its do-it-yourself application platform that allows business users to build their own customized department application in minutes with drag-and-drop ease. Featuring a streamlined user interface and set-up process, the new version allows users to build their own department applications by dragging-and-dropping spreadsheets into TrackVia.
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Risk Management Recommendations for Small Tech Businesses
Among the many trends Deloitte noted this year was the end of "hacker-proof" businesses. According to the report, no business should consider itself safe from hacking and data breach incidents. Deloitte's recommendations, which are geared toward IT departments and large IT companies, include moving away from a "fire truck" model of dealing with breaches and toward a "smoke detector" model--in other words, proactively identifying and managing risk to prevent incidents whenever possible.
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