FreshBooks, an online invoicing favorite among many small businesses and freelancers, rolled out an integration with PayPal Business Payments today, giving users the option to charge clients online rather than waiting for a paper check. FreshBooks has always been great at kicking out a nice-looking PDF invoice, which can be...
Yesterday Dropbox, the popular file storage Web application that enables users to easily sync a folder from their local computer with the the cloud, made a small change to its terms of service. Dropbox made it clear that it would decrypt and hand-over files if the U.S. government requested it.The...
So your company has mastered search engine optimization (SEO) for the brand's main Website and established a killer social media strategy, both of which are driving hordes of traffic and new business. Way to go. Both are critical to your company's success online, but have you connected these two very...
Apple has made changes to the way it ranks its top mobile applications in its iTunes App Store. The new rankings appear to take in consideration additional data points beyond raw download numbers, it appears. The changes should lead to more accurate lists of the top free and paid apps...
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.This week, Microsoft's search engine Bing launched a profile management portal for businesses much like Google and Yelp...
One of our top posts this week was Richard MacManus' look at the future of the camera. We all know how smartphones integrated cameras. "Could we be about to see the inverse - cameras integrating smartphone technology?" he asked. The story is part of our ongoing series looking at what...
Our top story this week was Audrey Watters' report on a survey that asked students how they use technology in the classroom. Almost 300,000 students from kindergarden through 12th grade - along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2,000 librarians, 3,500 administrators - took part in the study.The results show that...
If you're old enough, you'll remember LexisNexis (especially the Nexis part) as a revelation - a way to search through tons of news articles, features, papers and more to research a topic or a person without having to wade through the endless green rows of "Readers' Guides." It has stayed...
InDinero, a Y Combinator-backed Web app we've covered previously, is a financial management dashboard akin to Mint.com for small businesses. As cofounder Jessica Mah outlined in a blog post yesterday, the dashboard was recently redesigned and a few features were tweaked. InDinero shows financial trends over time with simple, colorful...
It was two short, short years ago that the Obama administration thrilled data and transparency wonks by launching Data.gov, USASpending.gov and a number of other ambitious sites. But as Marshall Kirkpatrick reported in our top story this week, Congress is now planning to eliminate the sites' funding. There's a push...
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.In the collaboration Web app department, we saw group chat service Talker drop its subscription price to zero...
On Thursday we interviewed the much-talked-about CEO of Color, Bill Nguyen, and the story ended up being our top post of the week. Color is the location-based photo-sharing app that raised $41 million before it even launched. That price tag - along with the underwhelming first impression the app makes...
This week's top story was Marshall Kirkpatrick's revelation that Google has plans to launch a new social network. Does it exist? Does it not exist? Google tried to shoot down the story (which is what companies with sekret projects usually do) but Marshall's analysis and reportage paint a fairly comprehensive...
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.As tablet adoption grows, so too does the amount of sensitive data people transmit using the devices. Almost...
In the interest of bringing people together and spreading the know-how, a trio of SMB-friendly brands is teaming up to help support a series of BarCamp events across the United States this year. The aptly named BarCamp Tour is being organized by MailChimp, Wufoo and Grasshopper Group, the makers Web...
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.Foursquare 3.0 was released this week and the upgrade included significant enhancements to the location app's Merchant Platform...
Our top story this week came from our ReadWriteBiz channel, where writer John Paul Titlow discovered that even though teenagers in the U.S. are online pretty much all the time, they don't want to like your business on Facebook. Here's one of the more damning statistics: Only 26% said they...
Ashton Kutcher, star of TV and Twitter, was at TED this last week when a surprising tweet popped up in his stream: "Ashton, you've been Punk'd. This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL?" Laugh all you want - when was the last time you double checked to see...
Nimble, a hosted social CRM solution, finally went into public beta today. But it's already received a lot of buzz. Partially because it has a good story. Nimble founder Jon Ferrara also co-founded one of the first CRM companies, GoldMine, back in 1989. GoldMinesold to Ixchange (now known as FrontRange)...
Need some clarity on keyword research tools, XML sitemaps or search marketing best practices? Good news: The search engine optimization (SEO) resource site SEOMoz has launched a Q&A forum for its pro members. In relaunching its Q&A site, SEOMoz is opening up the dialogue to members of their community, rather...
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