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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

Cheap Ways to Make an Old Computer New Again

Sprucing up the office computers is a lot more affordable than replacing them.  Read more

Build a Killer Enterprise App: 10 Rules

The best apps are always on, always alert, and always ready to help your employees seize an opportunity. Here's how to build one.  Read more

How to Identify Your Next Business Opportunity 

As the co-founder of a Brooklyn gourmet food and wine shop, Jason Richelson knows first-hand the shortcomings of cash register software. So in August 2008 he...  Watch video

6 Start-up Tips From the World’s Biggest Tech Companies

Google and Microsoft were once start-ups. So how'd they get that big? We asked company executives to share their growth tips.  Read more

Business Trip? 5 Tech Essentials to Pack

Travel lighter! Get more work done! Never run out of power! Don't leave home without these tech essentials.  Read more

5 Ways to Deal With Pushy Tech Vendors

Microsoft, Best Buy, and other tech giants are coming for you, armed with their best sales pitches. Get ready to negotiate.  Read more

5 Tech Trends That Won’t Go Out of Style

Feel like you're always scrambling to keep up with the latest technology? Stop. These are the only five things you need to worry about.  Read more

Starting Over

Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it's your top-selling product.  Read more

5 Tips: How to Recover When Your Tech Tools Fail

Sometimes the Web services you rely on crash... or get taken down by the feds (sorry, Megaupload.com!). Be ready before it happens to you.  Read more

Web Translation Made Simple

The skinny on a new Web-based service that can translate websites into more than 50 foreign languages  Read more

PayPal to Offer Mobile Payments, Location-Based Deals

Other new features will include store inventory lookup and barcode scanning via a handheld device.  Read more

Creating Apps to Fuel Growth

How mobile apps spurred the growth of GasBuddy.com into a successful web business  Read more

10 Apps to Up Your Networking Game

Get friendly! You have a smartphone, so show your new contact you know how to use it. We've found the best free apps that can spark connections and keep you ...  View slideshow

How to Use Software to Plan and Prioritize Projects

In business, when the going gets tough, the tough have to learn to prioritize between projects to make sure they reach business goals without breaking the bank.  Read more

America's Fastest-Growing Software Company

Serial entrepreneur Andy Monin created Vendormate software to help health care facilities manage vendors; the company earned $10.7 million in 2009.  Read more

Web-based Voice Mail

Did you know that you can manage your voice mail messages online?  Not only that, but some services will allow you to get the messages automatically ...  Read more

Cloud Computing Turns 10

As more companies run business applications not on their own networks but entirely on the Web, the concept of cloud computing has gone mainstream. Per...  Read more