Small Business (SMB) stories - Page 8
HIVED rolls out unified electric delivery for UK SMEs
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HIVED launches HIVED One, a unified all-electric parcel service aimed at simplifying nationwide deliveries for UK eCommerce SMEs.
Women in tech call for systemic change beyond quotas
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Women in tech mark International Women's Day by urging systemic fixes to finance, culture and leadership, saying quotas alone fall short.
MSPs warned as cyber criminals weaponise trusted access
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ransomware
Cyber criminals are hijacking MSP trust relationships, abusing valid credentials and VPNs as AI turbocharges phishing and ransomware.
International Women's Day: The Australian entrepreneur proving you don't have to scale fast to succeed
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Ahead of IWD 2026, Craft Club's Nakisah Williams champions slow, sustainable growth over blitzscaling as a new model of female leadership.
International Women's Day - women, confidence, and the credit gap
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Ahead of International Women's Day, new research exposes how shattered confidence, bias and complexity fuel a stubborn credit gap for women.
Style, substance, and strategy: Drawing similarities between pageantry and PR
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clean technologies
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marketing
From runway to boardroom, Australia's pageant stage doubles as a high-stakes PR lab for purpose-driven personal branding in 2026.
Slow patching leaves SMB endpoints exposed for weeks
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it automation
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risk & compliance
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Acronis finds SMBs patch Microsoft flaws in about eight days, but the slowest endpoints stay exposed to known bugs for over five weeks.
The dominant dialect… and why ChatGPT thought I was a man
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financial systems
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open source
A writer discovers AI assumed she was a man, exposing how male-coded authority and historical bias still shape modern language models.
Why women entrepreneurs must own their digital identity
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blockchain
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partner programmes
Women founders risk empires built on rented platforms; owning domains turns digital identity into an asset they control and can scale.
Intuit unveils QuickBooks tools for Making Tax Digital
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Intuit rolls out new QuickBooks tools to help sole traders and landlords gear up for HMRC's Making Tax Digital income tax rules.
Vistra & G-P launch unified path for global hiring
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Vistra and G-P unveil a single-contract route to shift firms smoothly from EOR hiring to fully fledged entities in overseas markets.
UK Spring Statement: AI skills & cyber resilience focus
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ransomware
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martech
UK Spring Statement wins tech sector praise for stability, but experts warn growth hinges on real progress in AI skills and cyber resilience.
EASI launches 2026 social impact awards for UK founders
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clean technologies
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sustainability
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EASI opens applications for its 2026 awards, offering a GBP £10,000 grant and year-long support to UK founders driving social impact.
How tech can drive inclusive economic impact
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As International Women's Day nears, inclusive tech emerges as a powerful lever to unlock women-led growth and reshape local economies.
How less can be more for bootstrapped AI startups
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digital transformation
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cx
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For bootstrapped AI startups, resisting scale and mastering a tight niche can build stronger products, brands and finances.
Why women should be unafraid of AI and the opportunities it presents for female entrepreneurs
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AI is opening doors for women entrepreneurs, turning limited time and resources into leverage and levelling a historically unequal field.
YouLend, Värde agree USD $225m US forward-flow deal
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commerce systems
YouLend seals multi-year deal with Värde, which may buy up to USD $225 million of US receivables to back its embedded lending growth.
Proofpoint unveils AI-first Nuclei archiving suite
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Proofpoint launches AI-first Nuclei suite to simplify archiving and compliance for small firms swamped by complex, multi-channel comms.
ECI Software Solutions hires Jack Wood to drive AI push
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ECI names Jack Wood chief technology officer to spearhead platform modernisation and embed secure, workflow-native AI across its products.
ECI buys Drypowder to boost ERP payments & AR tools
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manufacturing
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data analytics
ECI acquires Drypowder to embed AI-driven AR and digital payments into its ERP platforms for construction and building materials users.