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Small Business (SMB) stories

How to get paid faster, without ruffling any feathers

A healthy cash flow can be enough to define any business, but how do you keep your invoices in line without risking your hard-earned relationships?.

By Alastair Grigg • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016

Cybersecurity

Kaspersky Lab empowers businesses with new solution

Kaspersky bolsters cyber defences for SMEs with a tailored SaaS solution, championing simple cloud-based threat management.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Mon, 12th Sep 2016

Fintech

Brisbane on show as Xero targets Aussie small business

Brisbane hosts over 2,000 accountants at Xero's largest Aussie conference, targeting Queensland's 406,000 small businesses with its cloud software.

By Shannon Williams • 1 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016

Malware

How much a cryptomalware attack could cost your business

SMBs face up to £99k hit from a single cryptomalware attack, with operational halt and data loss key culprits, warns Kaspersky Lab.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Mon, 5th Sep 2016

Cybersecurity

Avaya's new solution looks to help combat cybercrime

The main challenge for small and midsize businesses is to keep up with the growing and ever-changing cybersecurity threats.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Fri, 2nd Sep 2016

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Global study finds IT maturity lacking amongst SMBs

There is a very close correlation between an IT department's maturity level and its effectiveness, which can cost organisations money & resources.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Thu, 4th Aug 2016

Storage

Hands-on Review: QNAP TVS-882 - a solution for SMBs

Data is becoming more and more important every day, and is crucial for businesses both large and small - QNAP has the solution for SMBs.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Wed, 22nd Jun 2016

Public Cloud

Businesses warned about invoice fraud

Businesses at risk of invoice fraud due to increase in email fraud, lack of automated invoice software, warns Concur.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Tue, 14th Jun 2016

Unified Communications

Rod Drury on major US banking announcement for Xero

We recently announced an integration with Wells Fargo, a bank serving more than three million small businesses and one in three households in the USA.

By Rod Drury • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Jun 2016

Converged Infrastructure

Lenovo focuses on SMB sector with new data center offering

Lenovo tailors data center tech for SMBs, enhancing their IT infrastructure with the Converged HX Series for cost-effective solutions.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Wed, 25th May 2016

Converged Infrastructure

Nutanix brings on new ANZ channel director, ups SMB focus

Nutanix appoints new channel director for Australia and New Zealand to expand SMB presence and manage partnerships.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Thu, 12th May 2016

Stories from Other Regions

Small Business (SMB) stories

DevOps

VIDEO INTERVIEWS: What is the future of project management?

Project management is evolving into a people-centric craft, according to interviews at New Zealand's Project Management Conference.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 19th Sep 2016

Fintech

Xero: Helping Kiwi small businesses thrive since ages ago

One on one: NZ managing director Anna Curzon talks about Xero's North Star and what they're doing to help small business keep ahead of the game.

By Shannon Williams • 5 min read • Wed, 14th Sep 2016

Fintech

A transforming industry: Xero looks back at an exciting 10 years

Xerocon South 2016 kicks off with more than 2000 Xero users and managing directors Innes and Curzon addressing the crowd.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016

Fintech

Xero spotlight: SMBs to benefit from financial web

Xero's 'financial web' links services to small businesses' accounting systems, improving insight and access to capital.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016

Fintech

Advisors and education in the spotlight as Xero launches new partner program

Xero unveils expanded global Partner Program and open practice platform Xero HQ, designed to activate the success rate of partners and small businesses.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016

Facebook

Facebook wooing SMBs with new shop and services sections

Social media giant Facebook is continuing its efforts to get inside small businesses with the roll out of two new sections on its Pages feature.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Mon, 8th Aug 2016

Government

Govt reacts to small business group recommendations

The Government commits to easing small business operations in response to the Small Business Development Group's recommendations, including tax simplification.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Mon, 13th Jun 2016