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How to Comparison Shop the Cloud: 5 Tips

The cloud is cheap and easy to tap into--sometimes too easy. Make sure you get the right service and price with these tips.  Read more

How to Beat a Giant at Its Own Game

Can a database start-up go up against Oracle? Here are two reasons why this one has a fighting chance.  Read more

4 Lessons from Yammer's Success

Microsoft's acquisition proves tech start-ups are still hot. Want to be next? Learn from what David Sacks did right.  Read more

Is Your Business Too High-Tech?

Just because machines can do things faster and cheaper than your employees doesn't mean they should.  Read more

Is Technology Killing Your Company?

The common high-tech trap many businesses fall into--and how to steer clear of it.  Read more

Who Makes the Decisions: You or Your Software?

Automating certain tasks can save a ton of time and money. But it can make you less efficient, too, if you're not careful.  Read more

Smartphones of the Future: 6 Predictions

Future mobile devices will change the way you do business--in ways you probably can't even imagine. Here are a few predictions.  Read more

4 Tech Mistakes That Can Bring Down Your Business

You're no IT person--you have a business to run!--but you can't afford to get these technology decisions wrong.  Read more

Big Data Saved My Company (and Gave Me a Second Shot at Google)

Using data, Turn is revolutionizing the way marketers advertise. In the process, it has to head off Google.  Read more

10 Time-Saving Apps for Moms

Give yourself a gift this Mother's Day: more time. These tools can help.  Read more

Set Up an Online Business in Hours

Equipping a website to process credit card payments is hassle. Or it was, until Stripe and its 20-something founders came along.  Read more

Need Customer Service Help? There’s a Bot for That

Online customer service 24/7 can be hard to swing on a small business budget. But there is another solution.  Read more

Leverage Big Data in Your Small Business: 5 Tips

Giant corporations use data analysis to fine-tune their marketing. So can you.  Read more

Google Drive: A Box- and Dropbox-Killer?

Cloud start-ups have thrived because no major Big Tech company beat down their doors. That just changed.  Read more

3 Cloud Services That Make Work Easier

Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and--that real productivity killer--inefficiency.  Read more

How to Become Digitally Literate Today

Entrepreneurs are divided into digital natives and digital immigrants. If you don't go native in a hurry, you will be left behind.  Read more

Apple to Launch App Tools for Non-Geeks

If Apple lives up to its promise, you'll be able to build apps yourself--no coding required.  Read more

5 Presentation Apps to Try

Can't find a projector? Forgot to send key files to colleagues? Solve these and other common problems with a few handy apps.  Read more

8 Reasons to Fire Your Personal Assistant

Need a cheaper way to manage your topsy-turvy schedule? These apps and services will do the trick.  Read more

A Simple Cure for Project Management Headaches

Want to spend more time working on a project than managing it? Try this tool.  Read more

6 Major Tech Innovations for 2012

These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch.  Read more

Are You an Oversharer Online? How to Tell

A new tool scans all of your online activity and lets you know if it's in danger of tainting your reputation.  Read more

Note to Tech Start-ups: Cool Products Aren’t Enough

A hot mobile app that gets attention does not a company make. A better way: Build what people want and find a way to make it pay.  Read more

5 New Apps & Tech Tools to Try

Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver.  Read more

PayPal Here Takes Aim at Square

Who will win? Doesn't matter--small businesses stand to gain as these mobile payment platforms try to out-innovate each other.  Read more