February 2012
2012 is a challenging time to be a small business owner, but in the battle for your customers’ loyalty, nothing trumps good, old-fashioned hard work and dedication.
Is your website up for the challenge of helping you compete in today’s marketplace?
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Netflix subscribers streamed more than 2 billion hours of TV shows and movies in the fourth quarter of 2011.

By observing how your employees operate and offering suggestions to improve their approach, you’ll foster trust and create a culture of learning at your company.

Twitter claims changes to Google’s search engine unfairly downplay its content; Google argues that Twitter sealed its fate by pulling the plug on a feed that allowed Google real-time access to its content.

From big data to tablet commerce, make sure you are on top of the trends that are shaping and steering the market this year.

There are many ways you can put technology to work for your company to improve your bottom line this year, from replacing your fax machine with an online service to finding cloud-based solutions for your data storage needs.

Becoming familiar with the basic building blocks of a typeface is helpful to understanding how different fonts will impact the overall look and feel of your website.

To weather tough economic times, USC faculty member Dave Logan writes, you need to create a world-changing corporate culture that embraces learning, risk-taking and innovation.

In the deluge of new technology on display at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, there is no lack of products that can also help small business owners boost productivity around the office, from ultrabooks and tablets to digital cameras with networking capabilities.

More than a dozen websites – including Wikipedia, Moveon.org, Craigslist, Reddit, Boing Boing, Mozilla and the Cheezburger network of sites – have gone dark to protest the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills they claim with gut the Internet and stifle free speech.