Pedro Hernandez

The reassuring glow of Apple’s distinctive logo no longer guarantees that malware will keep its distance. To help Mac-based small businesses cope with a security landscape that doesn’t discriminate between computing platforms, Mac security company Intego has released Flextivity, an integrated, cloud-based security and activity monitoring service. Intego’s CEO, Jeff Erwin, remembers the days when the […]

Priced out of expensive video conferencing systems, small business owners and employees typically have to hunch over their laptop PCs to conduct virtual meetings. Those days are over, according to Dell. A New Small Business Video Conferencing System The company has launched a new system, dubbed the Dell Chromebox for Meetings, that includes practically all of […]

Social media has empowered small businesses in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago, forever changing both the way they engage with customers and how they market their goods and services. At little or no cost, social media marketing lets local shops reach consumers quickly and en masse—or provide individually tailored customer experiences. Of course, […]

Intuit has good news for entrepreneurs. In a survey of 500 small and midsized business (SMB) owners, the company discovered some “big surprises,” according to Terry Hicks, vice president and general manager of the company’s cloud-based QuickBooks Online division. Among them is the relatively paltry amount that it takes to launch a new startup. (You […]

ThinkHR, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based human resources (HR) and workplace compliance specialist, is taking a cloud-based approach to employee training. The company’s latest offering, called ThinkHR Learn, gives small business an affordable way to train employees without having human resource experts on staff or without forking over tidy sums on seminars and on-site classes. ThinkHR Learn consists […]

Office equipment maker Brother has embarked on a sweeping revamp of its SOHO (small office and home office) and small business printer line. First up are new monochrome laser printers that sport the same prices as their predecessors, but include new functionality such as built-in automatic duplex (two-sided) printing, support for mobile device printing and […]

Samsung launched a new digital signage product today aimed at small businesses. Dubbed Samsung Smart Signage TV, the new line of displays blends hardy, commercial-grade components with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity and mobile-enabled software. Digital signage can help boost small business marketing efforts and engage customers. Samsung introduces “a brand new category designed for ease-of-use for the […]

Cloud services are changing the very essence of what it means to be a small business today, according to a new report from Inuit and Emergent Research. “We’re seeing a set of major forces converging and leading to change,” said Steve King, partner and principal researcher at Emergent Research during a teleconference. These forces include shifts in […]

For online scam artists, there’s no such thing as too small a target, says Andrew Bagrin, CEO and founder of My Digital Shield, a small business security specialist. The newly-launched “security-as-a-service” startup leverages cloud computing to provide small businesses with enterprise-grade threat protection. Its self-named My Digital Shield (MDS) offering is a unified threat management platform […]

Backups keep your data safe. How about your business phone services? Few things in business are as trusty as the old-style dial tone that greets you when you pick up your phone receiver. You dial a phone number, have a conversation—or leave a voicemail—and hang up. That’s it. It’s simple, uncomplicated, and there’s little fear […]

After helping consumers encrypt their emails with ease, Virtru, a technology startup from Washington D.C., aims to do the same for small and midsized businesses (SMBs). The company’s new Virtru for Business does for entrepreneurs, small firms and fellow startups what its software-as-a-service (SaaS) email encryption already does for individual consumers, but with  added controls to […]

Agiliron, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider (that you pronounce “agile iron”), has launched version 7.7 of the company’s platform, marking the first time that the product links with QuickBooks Online. The latest version closes the loop for small and midsized retailers that want to keep their financial affairs in order on Intuit’s cloud, according to Stan […]