Archive for January, 2011

Booming Auto Industry of China and India Bringing Back the Global Auto Industry on Growth Track

After two years in which sales reduced, the growing Chinese and Indian markets is going to put the world industry back on the track. There is an expectation that, Chinese auto market grows with 24 percent in 2010. India is in the second position in the world with growth of nearly 22 percent in previous […]

Know About Hotels and Other Accommodation Industry

Generally people travel for variety of reasons, like for vacations, business and visits to friends and relatives, other activities. Hotels and other accommodations are the place for travelers to stay. Some resort hotels and casino hotels provides different activities along with staying. Services: There are different services provided by the industry, from luxurious five star […]

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SMBs Tend to Overlook Security Concerns

Symantec conducted a survey on 1,425 small and medium businesses in 17 countries during the first quarter of 2009. According to the survey reports, 94% of the SMBs mentioned protecting their information, servers and networks is extremely important for their businesses. 70% of the respondents were concerned about spam and theft of data. Inspite of […]

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SMBs Keen on Adopting New Technology

Small businesses are considered to play an important role in the growth of the U.S. economy. However, usage of new and advanced technologies stands as a major challenge for many SMBs. With the increased awareness and rapid growth in technology, many SMBs today are keen to adopt new technologies. According to the CompTIA’s Second Annual […]

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Banks Fail to Provide Security Against Fraud Attacks

According to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Gaurdian Analytics, the SMBs in USA are very much concerned about the security of their transaction through online banking. The following are the findings of the study: 55% of the businesses exerienced fraud, with 58% of them having reported fraud in online banking, in […]

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UK SMEs Believe Government’s Main Priority is to Fulfill Deficit

The reports of the survey conducted by, Forum of Private Business, revealed that 79% of the SMEs in the Southwest say that paying off the National debt should be the top priority for the government. Next priority was given to introduction of fairer taxes with 41% of the owners supporting it and 12% of the […]

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SMEs Lack Insight on IT Security: GFI

According to GFI, 46% of SMEs were having declining sales figures and 37% showed flat growth. Therefore as a measure to curb their expenses most of the SMEs are cutting down their expenses on IT. In 2009, 44% of SMEs are planning to cut down their IT budget, and only 19% plan to increase. IT […]

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Small Business Owners Struggle to Find Skilled Workers

As per the statistics released by United States Department of Labor in July, the National Unemployment rate was 9.7%, which is same as the year earlier. But contrary to the above fact, many of the small business owners are finding it difficult to recruit skilled labor. They view that despite the unemployment, there is dearth […]

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