Small Business

As giant retailers such as Gamestop, JC Penney, and Nordstrom opened--and quickly shuttered--Facebook storefronts over the past six months, many analysts declared Facebook's e-commerce effort to be a failure. People come to Facebook to catch up with family and friends, they reasoned, not to shop for goods and services.

A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.

Sortfolio, a website to help you find website designers, will be closed by 37Signals unless someone ponies up $480,000.

Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's about linking the social strategy to measurable business objectives, according to Gartner, which says most businesses aren't doing this.

You probably can't turn a corner in the office without hearing about Voice over IP--a popular, cheap, and effective way to provide telephony to businesses. The premise is simple: Instead of using the existing telephone lines in your building, or having new ones installed, you push all of your voice, teleconferencing, and video traffic through the Internet.

If you’ve ever wanted to utilize Adobe’s Master Collection of creative tools in your business, but blanched at the suite’s $2,600 price tag, take a look at Adobe Creative Cloud. This new subscription service delivers full access to the company’s Creative Suite 6 on a monthly or annual basis for a fraction of that price.

When you think about your company's websites -- whether internal or customer-facing -- you most likely picture the sites rendered on a computer screen, the environment Web development teams typically target. But there are more than 4 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, more than the total number of TVs and PCs combined, and that doesn't even include tablets. The reality today is your websites are being visited by people using hundreds of kinds of devices, the vast majority of which are mobile.

Philip Kaplan added a special page to his website so vendors will know why he can't use PayPal to buy their product or service.

Intel on Tuesday announced a new suite called Small Business Advantage that takes advantage of specific features baked into the company's Core processors to maintain and secure PCs.

If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer and package it with the same information from a hundred or a thousand other small businesses? Would it be worth something then?

Trade-in values for used Apple iPads plummeted as much as 26% after the company launched its newest tablet Wednesday and began taking pre-orders for delivery by March 16.

Small and midsize businesses often can’t afford file servers, and struggle with the best way to provide their users with enough space to store data and keep it safe from hardware failure. Windows 8's new feature called Storage Spaces has three benefits: bringing the safety of RAID to the desktop, creating an expanding space to store files, and providing these features at lower cost than other hardware options.