The PMIs for large and medium enterprises moderated to 50.6 and 50, respectively, from 51.1 and 50.8 in May, while the PMI for small enterprises recovered to 47.2 from 45.2.

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In addition, Toshiba is also debuting Mobile Broadband-ready versions of the recently unveiled professional laptops targeted at small offices and companies, medium businesses and large enterprises: the Tecra M11, A11 and S11, and the ultra-slim Satellite Pro T110 and Satellite Pro T130.

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Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.

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It analyses 85-90 per cent of the responses to the Final PMI from purchasing executives in more than 400 small, medium and large manufacturers, both state-owned and private enterprises.

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While small- and medium-sized businesses have been diving into cloud services, large enterprises have been slower to make the move, citing concerns about privacy, reliability and legacy integration.

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Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.

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