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Something New for Business

When running a business, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. Ruts, even if they are making you money, are not good for you or your business. If you are doing things the same way day after day, you will not create or see new opportunities and might not identify market or industry changes …Read More

Profits and Sales

Many small business owners are focused on growing sales. When there is cash in the bank and customers coming through the door, a lot of business owners don’t take the time to see how money is being spent. What jobs or products are the most profitable?   n It seems the bigger the business, the …Read More

Small Business Challenges

Over 35 percent of small-business owners see their challenge as maintaining and growing their business by focusing on generating new business and more customers. Around 25 percent, however, feel they are stretched too thinly across all roles, already, and feel there aren’t enough hours in the day to do more. n While every entrepreneur and …Read More

Union Datacom Launches Dallas IDC

March 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –

Qwest Raises Offer to Buy MCI

March 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Qwest Communications (qwest.com) has submitted another bid to MCI (mci.com), sweetening its offer to $8.45 billion, according to reports.

Play.com Picks Zeus Traffic Manager

March 16, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure solutions provider Zeus Technology (zeus.com) announced that UK online entertainment retailer Play.com has deployed Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager to scale up their e-commerce platform.

Qwest to Offer $8 Billion for MCI

March 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, Qwest Communications (qwest.com) will sweeten its offer to acquire MCI (mci.com) to $8 billion, a move that could force Verizon (verizon.com) to raise its own bid.

WebSitePulse Adds New Monitoring Sites

March 11, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web-based systems and e-business transaction monitoring firm WebSitePulse (websitepulse.com) announced on Thursday that it had added two new European monitoring locations – one in Munich, Germany, and one in Amsterdam, The Netherlands – bringing the number of stations to 14. The company projects a total of 30 monitoring locations worldwide by the end of 2005, with more locations added thereafter, as needed.

Peer 1 Network Opens New Data Center

March 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet bandwidth, colocation and Web hosting provider Peer 1 Network (peer1.net) announced on Wednesday that it had opened a new 12,000 square-foot data center in Herndon, Virginia, its twelfth facility.

SWsoft SiteBuilder Popularity Growing

March 9, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting automation software developer SWsoft (sw-soft.com) announced on Wednesday that Godengo, USONYX, DataPipe and other hosting providers have recently deployed SiteBuilder, the company’s Web site building and publishing tool for service providers.