The 2018 holiday season is in the books, and small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) sold big on Amazon. In fact, SMBs had their best holiday shopping season ever.

The e-tail giant itself had a record-setting holiday season as well: More items were ordered worldwide on Amazon than ever before.

But it was not just corporations like LEGO that benefitted from all this shopping. More than 50 percent of all items sold came from small and medium-sized businesses.

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Google has beta-launched a program for small businesses (SMBs) to help them become better marketers on Google. Called Small Business Advisors (SBA), the program offers 50-minute individualized consulting sessions on a range of products from Google My Business to Ads and Analytics to YouTube.

No enterprises or agencies. Google told me in an email that the program is is open to small businesses in the United States with an active Google account.  Large businesses, marketing and SEO agencies are not eligible to participate. The cost is $39.99 per session. There’s no fee through the end of 2020.

Small business does not appear to be defined, so theoretically companies with up to 100 employees or even 499 employees (the U.S. Small Business Administration definition). As a practical matter, the program will likely be utilized by very small businesses with relatively few employees. Suspended accounts are not eligible to book an appointment and must get reinstated before gaining access to the program.

Goshawk Aviation Limited is a top ten global aircraft lessor with an owned, managed and committed fleet of 216 aircraft. Formed in 2013, the business has quickly grown to become one of the premier global aircraft leasing companies building a high-quality portfolio of young new technology aircraft placed on long leases to airlines globally.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK are facing significant challenges in today’s digital landscape, with misinformation, fake reviews and inadequate search and engagement tools putting them at a serious disadvantage compared to larger competitors.

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ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery recently was able to talk to Marc Kuo, CEO and co-founder, Routific, about SMBs and non-traditional delivery methods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PNI•HCM partners with Juvo Jobs to provide SMBs a holistic hiring solution. Connect with local talent, manage your workforce, and get expert HR guidance!

Knowing the differences between threats can lead to more nuanced conversations about which security measures clients should invest in, writes Barracuda MSP's Chris Crellin.

Broadcom acquisition was a "wake-up call" for VMware-dependent SMBs.

Michael Collins highlights India’s significance, emphasising tech’s impact on small businesses

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A vulnerability in the Windows kernel can be triggered via SMB in Microsoft Windows versions ranging from Windows 2000 through to Windows 7. This vulnerability allows an attacker to trigger a kernel pool corruption by sending a specially crafted SMB_COM_TRANSACTION2 request. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in remote code execution with kernel privileges, while failed attempts will result in a denial of service condition.

ECLIPSEDWING exploits the SMB vulnerability patched by MS08-67. It affects Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, and XP. Note that this exploit is part of the recent public disclosure from the "Shadow Brokers" who claim to have compromised data from a team known as the "Equation Group", however, there is no author data available in this content. Consider this exploit hostile and unverified. For research purposes only. Description has been referenced from http://medium.com/@networksecurity.

The platform provides end-to-end capabilities and multiple features to enable small and medium size enterprises' easier access to tax credits for hiring eligible employees.

The companies are part of a shift toward deeper integration between online and offline operations.

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Brent Leary chats with SMB Group's Laurie McCabe to talk about how small businesses are using technology during the pandemic response not just to survive but in some cases, thrive.

Jeff Bezos says Amazon to invest $1 bln in digitizing SMBs in India

Are you looking for a content management system (CMS) that will help you create the digital content you need? With so many options on the market, it’s challenging to know which one is the best CMS software for your business. On this page, we’ll take a look at the six best CMS’s for website development […]

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IBM Business Partners can help their clients find new ways to solve a variety of infrastructure problems by attending one of the four new microcourses offered by SMB College.

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing a district court dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a case involving potential jurisdictional manipulation and alter ego relationships between companies in a case where a new company's state of residence was unclear because it hadn't conducted any activity apart from incorporation.

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Shopify has unveiled an app that lets users discover local businesses, receive relevant product recommendations from their favorite brands, check out effortlessly, and track all their online orders. It can gather and track orders automatically, but it also works without auto-tracking. Consumers can get a customized feed with deals, trending items and recommendations from their favorite stores.

CoronaBlue aka SMBGhost proof of concept exploit for Microsoft Windows 10 (1903/1909) SMB version 3.1.1. This script connects to the target host, and compresses the authentication request with a bad offset field set in the transformation header, causing the decompresser to buffer overflow and crash the target.

Microsoft Windows SMB version 3.1.1 suffers from a code execution vulnerability.

Microsoft Windows 10 SMB version 3.1.1 SMBGhost local privilege escalation exploit.

This Metasploit module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function of the VideoLAN VLC media player. Versions 0.9.9 throught 1.0.1 are reportedly affected. This vulnerability is only present in Win32 builds of VLC. This payload was found to work with the windows/exec and windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp payloads. However, the windows/meterpreter/reverse_ord_tcp was found not to work.

A vulnerability exists within the Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) protocol that can be leveraged to execute code on a vulnerable server. This local exploit implementation leverages this flaw to elevate itself before injecting a payload into winlogon.exe.

“Mind the Gap.” Whether you’ve visited London or not, you’re most likely familiar with the London Underground’s famous catchphrase. However, that well-known phrase may have implications related to clean energy based on a recent analysis. While Google, Apple, Facebook and other large corporations have lately garnered considerable attention for their commitments to renewable energy, electric utilities and companies like Nest, Tesla and Vivint Solar have also focused on providing innovative programs and technologies to residential energy customers.

MCP2221 I2C/SMBus Terminal (v2.0.1)

A startup that’s hoping to be a contender in the very large and fragmented market of human resources software has captured the eye of a big investor out of the US and become its first investment in Spain. Barcelona-based Factorial, which is building an all-in-one HR automation platform aimed at small and medium businesses that manages […]

Remote Emulation with the R&S SMBV100B Signal Generator

This Partner Support Fund for SMBs in logistics will be available to Delivery Service Partners (DSP) and select Transportation partners in India.