New links between Scottish universities and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are being established in a bid to increase graduate job opportunities.
After all, it sells to enterprise customers (70% of revenues) and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that account for the other 30%.
"Small and medium sized enterprises have become the first victim of banks tightening the noose on the flow of funds, " says Secretary General Anil Bhardwaj.
We get a sense of this from an article in the February 28, 2011 Nihon Keizai Shimbunon public lending to small- and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), from which the chart above is taken.
David Gustovich, founder and CEO, IQity Solutions: One of the primary advantages of cloud computing is for small and medium sized enterprises to instantly obtain the benefits of a complete, scalable IT infrastructure without having to implement and administer it directly.
According to survey of more than 15, 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, those with a medium or heavy Internet presence expect to grow by 17% over the next three years, compared with 12% for those less engaged online.
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Business for Scotland is made up of individuals from mainly small and medium-sized enterprises.
Alibaba was a local Chinese company that helped small- and medium-sized enterprises conducting business online.
More than 90% of the 4, 230 companies interviewed in 2010 were small and medium-sized enterprises.
In Q3 2012, Sina targeted small and medium-sized enterprises by incorporating this advertising system in a news feed.
"There's nothing more galling to small and medium-sized enterprises when they are paying (tax), and others are dodging it, " Mr Cable said.
Regional Landesbanks provide vital financing and support to small and medium-sized enterprises which would otherwise not have access to funding from national banks.
My startup, a company called Egnyte that provides hybrid cloud storage services to small- to medium- sized enterprises, requires a lot of infrastructure.
But Messrs Morgan and Cooke say that most small-and medium-sized enterprises still regard their local universities as ivory towers, with little useful to offer.
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In 1999, Ma founded "Alibaba.com, " which currently operates the world's largest online marketplace, serving small- and medium-sized enterprises by connecting global buyers with sellers in China.
But a net 22% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are manufacturers said they were more optimistic in the three months to April, the CBI said.
Converting the entire building infrastructure of the EU will generate millions of jobs and create new opportunities for thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises stretching over a 40-year period.
We decided to distinguish ourselves by targeting medium-sized enterprises.
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Both Rethink Robotics and Universal Robots, have focused on selling to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and both had big crowds of interested prospects at the recent Automate 2013 show in Chicago.
With long-term investment horizons, life insurance companies in developed economies are important investors in the stock market, as well as in the private placement markets for debt and equity securities issued by small- and medium-sized enterprises.
In Britain, banks still face high borrowing costs and remain nervous about lending more to small and medium-sized enterprises: a new credit-easing programme about to be introduced by the BoE and the Treasury is long overdue.
For small and medium-sized enterprises, peculiarities abound.
She said it was important that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) had continual support from both the Welsh and UK governments as they were key "pathways to employment for the unemployed and those who have been economically inactive for a long time".
Founded in 2006 by Radu Georgescu, a serial entrepreneur who sold a previous anti-virus software company to Microsoft (MSFT), Avangate helps 2, 800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe and Asia to sell their software without hiring a big sales force.
The private sector is more established in India (notice its better showing again on the Forbes Asia Best Under a Billion list of small- and medium-sized enterprises) but Indonesia is learning bottom-up growth without referral to a strongman and his cronies.
"These reforms will ensure that UK companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, can compete on a level playing field with those larger companies with the resources to set up operations in the Channel Islands, " said David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.
By 2016, the 4Afrika Initiative plans to help place tens of millions of smart devices in the hands of African youth, bring 1 million African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) online, upskill 100, 000 members of Africa's existing workforce, and help an additional 100, 000 recent graduates develop employability skills, 75 percent of whom Microsoft will help place in jobs.
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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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.
This quarter, Baidu excelled on cost management and gained traction in ad sales to larger enterprises, expanding on its customer base of small- and medium-sized firms, said New York-based analyst Colin W. Gillis, who tracks Baidu for Canaccord Adams.
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