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LATEST SMALL BUSINESS NEWS

It was a summer of high gas prices, the ongoing mortgage crisis and a seemingly nonstop run of thunderstorms and other weather woes. But economic woes and violent storms didn't slow summer small business sales for VARs.

September 19, 2008

Urs Renggli, one of Hewlett Packard's top midmarket executives, talks about how he and his family survived the black night of Hurricane Ike.

September 15, 2008

Solution providers at the 18th Annual D&H Distributing New England Technology Show point to brisk sales despite tough conditions.

August 12, 2008

Cisco is pulling the Linksys small-business partner program into its own fold in a move that will help focus its tremendous resources on the sub-100 employee space.

August 12, 2008

After revelations that HP plans to co-fund 110 new HP-only salespeople at CDW, the company's channel executives said Monday they will fund smaller SMB solution providers' efforts to grow their HP business.

August 11, 2008

Hewlett-Packard is set to co-fund 110 new CDW salespeople and feed them leads to go after accounts with 499 or fewer employess, a plan that will add more than 500,000 net new target customers for CDW, according to an internal CDW memo.

August 07, 2008

SAP Brazil revamped its channel strategy this year, reorganizing its territorial and vertical makeup

July 18, 2008

Lenovo announced a new series of notebooks geared specifically to price-sensitive, services-starved SMB customers.

July 15, 2008

Once upon a time, most small-to-midsize businesses enjoyed a relatively secure status, free from malicious cyber threats. Not so anymore, experts say.

July 11, 2008

The program launched June 1, with stores in the Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota markets. Customers can bring in up to two electronic devices per day, per household, for recycling at no charge.

June 02, 2008

Michael Dell says he expects the company to continue to grow faster than the industry and increase revenue, profitability and cash flow.

May 29, 2008

Dell also deprived consumers of technical support to which they were entitled under their warranty or service contract, judge says.

May 27, 2008

Google believes Google Friend Connect can help Web site owners drive more traffic, increase engagement and more easily and cheaply add social components to the Web site.

May 12, 2008

Understanding an organization's IT needs is not an IT decision anymore, it's a business decision, analyst says at Everything Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit.

May 05, 2008

The former head of Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network is in charge of forging Synnex's Varnex organization, which will compete against Ingram's VTN and Tech Data's TechSelect groups.

April 24, 2008

IBM answers SMB partner's question: what have you done for me lately?

April 18, 2008

Blockbuster said the combination of the companies would result in a company 'uniquely positioned to capitalize on the growing convergence of media content and electronic devices.'

April 14, 2008

Forrester Report says 2008 IT spending by small and mid-size businesses emphasizes continuity and streamlining of operations.

April 07, 2008

Entech Computer Services had never sold a wireless mesh solution before. So when the the Fort Myers, Fla.-based solution provider got a call from a nearby high-end condominium complex, asking for help installing wireless Internet in 122 suites in 16 buildings on a six-acre property, the VAR knew it would need some help.

March 28, 2008

Sun solution providers expressed mixed feelings about Sun having a featured online reseller.

March 18, 2008

Adrian Jones, at XChange, says target is small and midmarket business.

March 06, 2008

Saying it has lived through multiple recessions, distributor offers additional credit to more than 700 of its VARs.

March 06, 2008

Targeting Microsoft, Lotus execs add more incentives for channel partners selling to long-neglected SMB markets.

February 07, 2008

LaSalle Solutions began rolling out an in-room entertainment and e-commerce solution for a hotel chain in a project that could include more than 100,000 rooms.

January 23, 2008

Solution providers can now use an expanded IBM tool to help them determine whether small businesses can benefit from server virtualization.

October 31, 2007

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