Stamford (Connecticut)


Recent Articles about Stamford (Connecticut)

Paper and Electronic Planning Made Easy

Nov. 3, 2006 -- MeadWestvaco, a Stamford, Conn.-based packaging company, today launched a line of new products engineered to simplify the...  Read more

Benchmark: Where Marketing Dollars Go

Some data from a recent Gallup survey of 251 companies showing these companies' top direct-marketing tools.  Read more

Portrait of a Telecommuter

The consulting firm the Gartner Group offers some averages about telcommuters as well as some predictions.  Read more

Are Sales Costs Killing You Softly?

Chart of activities that affect sales productivity.  Read more

Manuel Fernandez: My Biggest Mistake

Manuel Fernandez is the chairman and CEO of the Gartner Group, based in Stamford, Conn., a high-tech consulting firm that generated $511 million in re...  Read more

When The Grapevine Won't Do

Need to buy research? You can still cut the bill.  Read more

White-collar Rescue

Sometimes it is managers -- not the rank and file -- who need to be saved from the budget ax. Combustion Engineering Inc., a diversified manufacturer in ...  Read more

Abraham Lincoln's Financial Adviser Slept There

On Wednesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 22, local members of the Greater New York business community got together on the shores of Stamford, CT, then dow...  Read more

The Fax About Starting A New Business

Book review of The Republic of Tea: How an Idea Becomes a Business.  Read more

International: Cultural Differences

Chart: Survey of 1,157 executives in Europe asking what sales skills their sales representatives lack.  Read more

International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers

An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size.  Read more

Road-Ready: Printing on the Go

Whether you need to print out a last-minute sales proposal on the road or get a printout of a document in your hotel before a client meeting, a portable prin...  Read more

Taxing the Call of the Wild

Does Puma’s cat or Geico’s gecko deserve a royalty?  Read more

Benchmark: How Much Catalogs Cost

The results of a survey of 115 catalogers about the average production costs and earnings.  Read more

The Present, and Future, of VoIP

Is it a passing fad or is voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) here to stay? According to recent research, the technology is, and will remain, a viable opt...  Read more

The Present, and Future, of VoIP

Is it a passing fad or is voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) here to stay? According to recent research, the technology is, and will remain, a viable opt...  Read more

Xerox Buys Small-Business Tech Retailer

Xerox is expanding into the small-business market with a $1.5 billion deal to buy a company that sells office technology products to small and midsize busine...  Read more

Mail: June 2003

Baseball, Brodsky, and bossocracy.  Read more

Beware of Botnets and Other New Kinds of Spam

Spam is increasingly coming in new and more dangerous strains, including junk email that contain images or viruses that take over your PCs and turn it into a...  Read more

The Best Way to Combat Rising Postage Costs? Free Stamps

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Recycling Cell Phones for Profit

Companies are finding that such environmental strategies can be more than good--they can be profitable.  Read more

Cost Control;

With as many as 300,000 airfares changing daily, you're probably finding it difficult to enforce company policies on business travel. Well, there's hope ...  Read more

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read more

My employees want another holiday. What should I do?

Employees were asking Howard Meditz, president of Marquardt & Roche/Meditz & Hackett, a marketing agency in Stamford, Conn., for an additional paid ...  Read more

Mission Control: The Software Dashboard

A centralized window into your business, the dashboard is surging in popularity because it provides businesses with real-time operational data.  Read more

How Much Is Enough?

Chart of the number of catalogs sent to prospects before giving up.  Read more

Security for Bank Deposits

New insurance for bank deposits picks up where FDIC coverage leaves off.  Read more

Beware the Ailing PC Maker

A newsletter, 'The Gartner Letter,' tracks hardware vendors whose financial setbacks may lead to deteriorating quality.  Read more

Every Year, Thousands of People are Killed By Pathogens in Food.

William Hanson wants to help.  Read more

Counting The Computers

Everyone knows the computer business is big, but nobody seems to know exactly how big or who has what piece of it. That is how the folks at the Comtec Mar...  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the October 2000 issue of Inc.   Read more

Build or Buy? Are Custom Applications Worth It?

When should a small business develop its own software in-house and when is it usually best to buy off-the-shelf solutions?  Read more

Financing Purchase Orders

Financing inventory by borrowing money against purchase orders.  Read more

Networking Advances Bring Potential Break-Ins

New network-related technologies are arriving at a dizzying pace for small and mid-size businesses, creating major headaches and risks for strapped IT staffs.  Read more

What About the Children?

This month it's mostly about values.  Read more

Network: March 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

The Pc Crapshoot

"If you're a stockholder in the personal computer business, you've probably had your head handed to you by now," says Peter Wright, vice-president of Gart...  Read more

New Strains of Anti-Virus Protection

No security solution will block every zero-day exploit or thwart every threat, but a host of new products can help IT managers identify a broadening plethora...  Read more

Goodbye and Good Luck

With employee turnover on the rise, getting the most out of exit interviews is more important than ever.  Read more

10 Money-Saving Technologies

In a recession, sometimes spending a bit on technology can actually end up saving your business money over the long term. Investments in virtualization, thin...  Read more