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Sage study says increase of employee burnout will hurt 2021 revenues

Half of Canadian businesses unprepared for technological changes due to the pandemic: survey

Nearly 50 per cent of Canadian businesses say they are still not prepared to support or maintain long-term remote work because of the rapid digitization that it necessitates, according to a recent survey

Published on: July 30th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca

Mastercard to provide free cybersecurity assessments to small Canadian businesses

RiskRecon, a Mastercard company, is offering free cybersecurity tools to help small Canadian businesses with up to 100 employees through December 31, 2020 to help them protect their IT infrastructure during the ongoing

Published on: May 13th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca

Canadian businesses are doing a poor job helping employees travel safely and effectively, says new study

Traveling for work is often stressful for employees, but a recent global survey of business travelers by SAP Concur dug a little deeper into the personal safety concerns, and the frustrations around ineffective

Published on: November 22nd, 2019 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca

Women make up one third of Canadian entrepreneurs, but not in tech industry

Female entrepreneurs in Canada are increasing in number, tend to be younger than their male counterparts and are starting businesses at a faster rate than men, however gender equality among STEM industry business

Published on: October 16th, 2018 Meagan Simpson @megesimpson

Digital tools drive economic growth: PayPal

Businesses that leverage e-commerce experience significantly accelerated growth, says PayPal Canada after a recent study. The research involved over 4,000 Canadian small businesses that handle between $30,000 to $3 million in online transactions

Published on: October 4th, 2018 Tom Li @itbusinessca

BlackBerry partners with L-Spark, launches new accelerator programs for SMEs

BlackBerry Limited has partnered with L-Spark, Canada’s largest software-as-a-service accelerator, to help small to medium-sized technology businesses grow to bring new products to the market by using BlackBerry’s QNX technology. A Sept. 20

Published on: September 20th, 2018 Shruti Shekar @shruti_shekar

Taxation, not NAFTA, is Trump’s biggest threat to Canadian business, say Baird and Charest

Two Canadian political veterans warned Friday that Donald Trump’s plan to cut U.S. corporate tax rates is a far greater threat to Canadian businesses than his push to reopen the North American Free

Published on: April 7th, 2017 Christine Wong @thatchriswong

IoT? “Never heard of it,” say over half of Canadian businesses

Almost nine out of 10 Canadian businesses admit they aren’t fully utilizing digital technology and their own lack of knowledge may be partly to blame, a new Microsoft Canada survey reveals. Although half

Published on: November 19th, 2015 Christine Wong @thatchriswong

Canadian firms seeing fewer data breaches – why that could actually be bad

This year, the number of reported security incidents dropped by 22 per cent among large businesses in Canada, compared to 2013. That might sound great, but Canadian businesses also saw a 15 per

Published on: December 1st, 2014 Candice So @candice_so

CASL’s computer software installation laws could shake up tech industry

With Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) set to come into force on July 1, many companies have been hard at work overhauling the ways they send commercial emails and messages to their customers. Yet

Published on: May 22nd, 2014 Candice So @candice_so

Canadian businesses ahead in mobile, Accenture study finds

Canadian companies are ahead of the global competition in bringing mobile technologies into the workplace – but if they want to disrupt their industries, they’ll need to get the C-suite involved. In a

Published on: April 7th, 2014 Candice So @candice_so

Free online networking service helps Canadian businesses get more out of Office

#image# We know that change affects different people differently. And we understand that working together in the face of constant change is better than in working separately. Small business owners in particular can

Published on: January 19th, 2009 Lee Rickwood @itbusinessca

Compliance is actually good for business, Canadian experts say

Compliance can help companies improve how they do business and prevent costly litigation, says a Canadian expert."Compliance needs to become part of the corporate mindset," according to James McKeen, professor of IT strategy

Published on: March 19th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca

Move to license Facebook platform favours small biz say Canadian marketing experts

The plan by Facebook to license its architectural platform to other social networking sites will boost the ability of SMBs to compete in the global market, according to Canadian online marketing specialists.The company

Published on: December 14th, 2007 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca

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