Innovation Slows as Productivity in the Biomedical Industry Declines After two decades of steady annual job growth, employment in California’s biomedical industry stalled while the state has struggled to recover from financial shortfalls and the industry adapts to a sharp pullback in funding from risk-averse investors in an uncertain regulatory environment, according to the 2012 California Biomedical [...]

Online Solution Affords Small Businesses the Ability to Identify Cost Savings, New Growth Opportunities and Areas to Improve the Customers’ Experience. Casewise Systems, a leading software and solutions company, today has announced the launch of a new enterprise business architecture solution, Casewise Small Business Offering (SBO) to support the needs of small businesses that want [...]

Billtrust, the premier provider of outsourced billing services, today announced the launch of Invoice Central, a groundbreaking, cloud-based business invoice network that is focused on streamlining invoice delivery and payment for both vendors AND small businesses. Invoice Central provides vendors with a hub-based approach to deliver invoices and accept payments electronically. Small businesses can sign up for [...]

Findings Reflect Nearly Two Continuous Years of Growth Market conditions continued to improve for the multifamily industry across all areas, according to the latest National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions. For the seventh time in the last eight quarters, all four indexes reflecting Market Tightness, Sales Volume, Equity Financing and Debt [...]

Ron Ipach, owner of CinRon Marketing Group, teaches auto repair shop owners affordable and easy to implement marketing strategies in his free online marketing course, available at CinRonMarketing.com. Auto repair shops that are looking to increase their business and profits now have an effective tool to use. Marketing expert Ron Ipach, owner of CinRon Marketing [...]

Recent study initiated by Haines Publishing shows print yellow pages are still relevant to Fairfield County, OH residents when searching for local businesses. A recent study initiated by Haines Publishing shows that 71% of residents in Greater Fairfield County use the print yellow pages first when looking for local business information. The study, conducted by [...]

- Rebound in demand in Manufacturing & Construction occupations differs significantly Online advertised vacancies rose 61,300 in January to 4,383,400, according to the released Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series. Nationally, there are 8.8 million more unemployed than advertised vacancies and the Supply/Demand rate stands at 3 unemployed for every vacancy. “The monthly increase [...]

While opinions vary on the pace of economic recovery, 55% of small and medium size businesses surveyed reported their business had either already recovered from the recession or they expected to recover within the next 6 months. While opinions vary on the pace of economic recovery, 55% of small and medium size businesses surveyed reported [...]

Small business is growing at a faster pace this year, and it is being fueled by a down economy that is forcing the average person to find a means of survival. Sites like B2BeTrader are spurring the growth of these small businesses. They are helping to reduce high startup costs by putting valuable used equipment [...]

BNY Mellon Report Says Cost of Hedging Against Negative Developments Has Become Expensive Investors appear overly focused on the downside risks to the markets and are not allocating sufficiently to take advantage of possible upside surprises, according to a white paper from BNY Mellon Asset Management’s Investment Strategy and Solutions Group (ISSG). The paper, A Radical [...]