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Google Apps for Small Businesses - The Cloud’s the Limit

This time, Google’s ‘target’ is the small business sector. The launch of Google Apps Marketplace enables small and medium sized businesses to keep their business documents safe in the cloud, but accessible by all members of their business at any time, from anywhere in the world.

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peopleperhour.com - March 11, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Online Retail Sales: Double-digit annual Growth expected for the next 5 years

Forrester Research have today, the 8th of March 2010, revealed a new five-year forecast predicting that online retail sales will continue to rise dramatically both in the U.S and in Western Europe.

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peopleperhour.com - March 8, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Relief for Women-owned Small Businesses (WOSB)

The U.S Small Business Administration (SBA) released a proposal yesterday, 2nd of March 2010, with the aim of expanding federal contracting opportunities for small businesses owned by women.

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peopleperhour.com - March 3, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

'Tax on Jobs' fuelling rage within businesses

The government’s planned 1% increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) has once more stirred up panic in the jobs sector. The increase is set to commence in April 2011, and is described as part of government’s plans to pay off the public spending deficit.

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peopleperhour.com - March 1, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

UK Economy finally in recovery: True or False?

The UK economy seems to be on the road to real economic recovery. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) today revised GDP growth for the final three months of 2009 to 0.3%, overriding worries that the initial figure of 0.1% growth could be revised to negative growth.

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peopleperhour.com - February 26, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Up in the Cloud: battle of Web Hosts for Small Business IT services

‘Small Business IT is Moving to the Cloud’ is quoted on the aspiring cloud software company Parallels’ homepage, and this Moto was the emphasis of the Parallels 2010 summit which took place in Miami earlier this week.

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peopleperhour.com - February 25, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Ideal time for Web Development and Design micro-businesses - introducing the WebSiteSpark

Niche industries such as web development and design are most often represented by small businesses which are often termed “micro” businesses, i.e. firms with ten employees or less.

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peopleperhour.com - February 23, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

FSB to the rescue for small business hiring

With UK unemployment benefit claimants reportedly rising throughout January 2010, and following the recent announcement of public sector job cuts, it is inevitable that the matter of employment is called upon with great alarm.

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peopleperhour.com - February 19, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

UK unemployment defies economic recovery – but real deal lies in working paradigm shift

Employment hopes in the UK received yet another blow today as unemployment has reportedly continued to rise throughout January despite signs of economic recovery.

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peopleperhour.com - February 18, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

HTC Legend hitting the UK – Is Legend HTC’s back-up to the Google Nexus One in struggle to beat

It looks like yet another rivalry story between Windows and Google, this time with HTC pulling the strings.

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peopleperhour.com - February 16, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

UK Recession Round II – Public Sector chaos as more job cuts expected

Further job cuts are anticipated in the public sector after new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) showed that almost a third of employers in the public sector are planning to lay off staff during the first quarter of this year.

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peopleperhour.com - February 15, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

UK Small Business: 'Freeing up Growth' through Flexible Working

Results of a new extensive report by the PCG (Professional Contractors Group) factually support the belief that ‘freelancer’ is the new ‘employee’, ‘small’ is the new ‘big ‘and ‘virtual’ is replacing ‘traditional’.

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peopleperhour.com - February 12, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Over 55’s on their way to retire in debt – Is there a way to save them?

The Real Retirement Report, released today (Wednesday the 10th of February) by the UK’s largest insurer Aviva which interviewed1,200 consumers, revealed worrying data regarding the pre-retirement 55-64 age group who appear to have average savings of around just £8,600.

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peopleperhour.com - February 10, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Small business entrepreneurs find opportunity in recession

Small business entrepreneurs see the light in the recession as they expect profitability and revenue to increase despite the anticipated rise in tax, regulation and minimum wage.

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peopleperhour.com - February 4, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Mixed signals for UK unemployment – but hope for UK Small Businesses

A survey of recruitment agencies showed today, Wednesday the 3rd of February, that the permanent-placement labour market is starting to recover, with the biggest increase in job vacancies in two-and-a-half years and a rise in permanent placements last month being clear signs of this recovery, albeit a slow one.

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peopleperhour.com - February 3, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Apple iPad accused of being a rip-off – Will the Google Chrome OS Tablet save us from an iWorld?

A Chinese firm, namely The Shenzhen Great Loong Brother company has fearlessly accused Apple that the iPad, and in particular in its design, is ultimately a copy of their own P88 tablet. The Chinese firm also stated that it would sue Apple if it were to release the iPad tablet in China.

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peopleperhour.com - February 2, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

EU accountancy opt-out for Small Businesses

The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has proposed an opt-out allowing EU (European Union) small businesses turning over less than an annual £865,000 (corresponding to €1million), to stop filing annual accounts.

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peopleperhour.com - January 29, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

iPad: iPod with an A?

Endless blabber has emerged since the launching of the iPad - Apple’s new tablet computer - and most of it is not flattering. The iPad has indeed not lived up to the majority of consumer expectations, but is the criticism justifiable or is it just that the expectations were too high to be ever reached in the first place?

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peopleperhour.com - January 28, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

UK economy: Is it really out of recession?

Figures published by the ONS (Office of National Statistics) today, Tuesday the 26th of January, indicate that the UK has finally exited from an 18-month long recession. Figures show that the UK economy has grown 0.1% in the last three months to 2009.

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peopleperhour.com - January 26, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

Google leaving China: the motives, the consequences and the reactions

A lot of attention has been recently focused on the question of whether the U.S search engine giant Google will leave China on the grounds that the Chinese are interfering in www.Google.cn search engine results. This censorship has been going on for quite a while but more recently insult was added to injury and Google’s fury was amplified as China-based hackers attempted to gain access to email (Gmail) accounts of Chinese human activists.

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peopleperhour.com - January 25, 2010 Permalink | Comments(0)

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