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Microsoft 365 Business Premium now offers cheaper enterprise-grade protection to SMBs

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:16:02 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled three new security and compliance add-ons for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), allowing them to save almost 70% in licensing costs. Read more...

Microsoft Defender for Business launches to help SMBs protect against ransomware and more

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:58:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender for Business has reached general availability. It's designed for small and medium businesses with limited resources to tackle cyberthreats that could damage their firm. Read more...

ESET, Intel partner to "turn the tide against ransomware" with ESET ransomware optimizations

Fiza Ali — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:50:01 +0000

The benefits of ESET's integration of Intel's TDT into its multi-layered cybersecurity technology suite allowing for superior ransomware protection will be made available later in the year. Read more...

Microsoft to launch Teams Phone with Calling Plan for businesses in the new year

Paul Hill — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:30:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 Business Voice will be merged into a new SKU with Enterprise-grade features and will be available from January 1, 2022. The new plan is called Teams Phone with Calling Plan. Read more...

Microsoft unveils AI-powered Digital Marketing Center

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:30:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest Garage project focuses on time-saving for small and midsize businesses. It does that by automatically optimizing their digital marketing across various platforms. Read more...

Microsoft to offer Windows 7 Extended Security Updates to SMBs

Rich Woods — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:08:01 +0000

Today, Microsoft announced that its Windows 7 Extended Security Updates won't only be available to its Volume Licensing customers, and small to mid-size businesses will have access as well. Read more...

Amazon helped 50,000 SMBs generate $500,000 in sales

Paul Hill — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:38:01 +0000

Amazon has revealed some statistics about small- and medium-sized businesses operating on its platform. Businesses generating more than $1 million in sales grew by 20% during the last year. Read more...

Amazon Storefronts launched to help SMBs sell products online

Paul Hill — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:36:01 +0000

Amazon has launched Amazon Storefronts, a new initiative aimed at U.S. customers. Through Storefronts, customers will be exposed to small- and medium-sized businesses via promo videos and profiles. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One for small businesses is a great investment

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:15:57 +0000

Microsoft is claiming that its upcoming Xbox One console, while an excellent entertainment device, is also capable of doing "real work". And its $499 price tag makes it a great option for SMBs. Read more...

Lenovo To Sell PCs To SMBs Via Best Buy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:31:06 +0000

Lenovo is broadening its commercial relationship with brick-and-mortar retailer Best Buy, saying it will work with the computer and electronics chain to sell notebook and desktop PCs to small-business customers. Under the deal, Lenovo will... Read more...

Storage Vendors Woo SMBs

Sun, 23 May 2004 04:29:07 +0000

Microsoft and several leading storage hardware vendors are planning advancements for the company's Windows Storage Server, all in the name of helping small and midsize businesses (SMBs) buttress their infrastructures. Microsoft Corp. is... Read more...

Cisco targets SMBs

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:36:05 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc., the undisputed king of the enterprise networking market, is setting its sights on a smaller fry with the launch of an SMB initiative this week. Cisco's SMB effort will include... Read more...

SMBs turn to the Penguin

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:23:06 +0000

One in four UK small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use Linux, and more than than half think it robust enough for mission-critical applications, according to a new study. Two in five of the 200... Read more...