Pedro Hernandez

Ooma, a leading small business VoIP provider, layers a new service onto its communications platform that’s aimed at giving small businesses an edge in acquiring new customers and boosting their marketing efforts. Dubbed Ooma Office Business Promoter, the lead-generation product represents the company’s strategy of empowering small business owners with advanced capabilities that integrate with […]

Congratulations on your flawlessly-executed online store. With compelling product descriptions, killer bargains and every pixel in its place, your spiffy new ecommerce site is sure to keep the virtual cash registers ringing all day, every day. But they aren’t. And the culprit is often a critical part of the online shopping experience that small merchants—in […]

Facebook Fit boot camps are getting a major makeover for 2015. Besides a name change—the educational and networking meetups for small businesses is now called Boost Your Business—the program is “bigger and more global than ever,” Bess Yount, SMB community engagement lead at Facebook told Small Business Computing. This time, “four marquee events and 30-plus […]

QuickBooks Online and PayPal are now in sync, allowing small business owners to spend less time on data entry and more time on their customers. Intuit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based accounting software company, announced today a new app called Sync with PayPal that helps entrepreneurs reclaim valuable time, according Rajashree Pimpalkhare, director of partner solutions […]

When it comes to growing their social media presence on their own websites, small business owners go to Facebook. Ninety percent of all websites with social media links include links to the popular social network, according to CodeGuard’s first State of the Web report. Using anonymized data from its own customer base, the company determined […]

FileMaker, the popular database application platform from the Apple subsidiary of the same name, fully embraces mobile work styles with the release of version 14. Among the most obvious upgrades is how the product renders applications on mobile devices, particularly the iPad and the iPhone. “We place a lot of importance not just on how […]

A new study from Sage, the cloud-based accounting software company, challenges the notion that budding entrepreneurs are super young, overwhelmingly male, and obsessed with money. Sage teamed with two companies: Qualtrics to poll 524 startups in the U.S. and Canada—all in operation for less than five years—and ReRez Research to poll 102 firms who nurture […]

This week at Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled ambitious goals for its upcoming Windows 10 operating system (OS). Not only does Microsoft hope to get the OS installed on a billion devices by mid-2018, the company is courting app developers of rival mobile platforms, namely iOS and Android, in a bid […]

Quick, name a computer security software company. Quick Heal may not be the first company that springs to mind when the topic of computer security comes up, but outside of the United States, it’s already made a name for itself. Today, the Indian software maker launched its North American operations (the U.S. and Canada) along […]

Small businesses in the United States are on the verge of a major tech transformation, according to new research from Intuit, the Mountain View, Calif. tech company best known for QuickBooks, TurboTax, and its growing cloud-based business software ecosystem. A study conducted by Nielsen Consumer Insights on behalf of Intuit found that 37 percent of […]

Nowadays, the solution to a slow-performing PC or server is simple: get a new one. Easy online availability, rock-bottom prices and fast shipping make whipping out the company credit card a no-brainer. In a day or two, a fast new system takes its place, letting you get back to business—after recycling the old machine, of […]

Seagate has launched WSS NAS, a new line of small business network-attached storage (NAS) systems for up to 50 people that integrates with Microsoft’s cloud storage and productivity software ecosystem. Small companies that have standardized on Windows and Office 365 can now centrally manage, mobilize and protect their files, while capitalizing on Microsoft’s investments in […]