Brent Leary at Small Business Trends interviews Dane Atkinson of SumAll, an analytics company that's gained a lot of recent traction recently despite still being in beta.

Intuit has been working with economist Susan Woodward to create monthly indexes tracking the progress of small business economic recovery. Mostly recently, Woodward reports that, “After no progress from May through October, small business employment has now resumed its slow rise for the second month in a row. For December, the growth rate was about one-tenth of 1 percent, for an annualized rate of just over 1 percent."

 

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Charles McColgan, chief technology officer at TeleSign, suggests that one good way to start 2014 is with a cybersecurity audit. Perhaps to scare you straight, we present this webinar from his company's resource selection, an interview with "one of Britain's most successful fraudsters, Tony Sales," called Confessions of a Fraudster.

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