Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, today announced that 50,000 small businesses in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will have the chance to claim up to £80 of ad credits to use on Facebook.
How companies can access the offer has not yet been revealed. A spokesperson told BusinessZone.co.uk that the details will be announced during the coming weeks.
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This Saturday, November 26th, is the second annual Small Business Saturday, promoted by American Express. The point of Small Business Saturday is to let small businesses in on a little piece of the holiday shopping pie. Through promotion, customers are encouraged to shop at small businesses on Saturday, the day after Black Friday. American Express is doing more than simply promoting small businesses; they are also helping them with financing. In the recent blog post “Small Business Saturday with American Express to Revitalize the Economy,” the Business Finance Store discusses some of the things American Express has been doing to support small businesses and how to benefit from it.
The current economy is a tough but exciting time for small business owners. The
The figures don’t lie. Small businesses have become big victims of cybercrimes. According to Symantec research, more than 40 percent all cyberattacks are directed at companies with less than 500 employees and the cost of cyberattacks on small businesses totaled $188,242 last year.
Data also showed that almost 60 percent of small businesses closed within six months of a cyberattack.
Luckily for small businesses, they are not alone in the fight against cyberattacks. Cyberinsurance has grown in recent years in an attempt to help businesses survive the risks and problems that come with data breaches and cybercrimes.
Hewlett-Packard is reaching out to partner with small businesses in the Silicon Valley tech sector, the Santa Cruz Sentinel recently reported.
Though HP famously began in a garage in Palo Alto, California, the company is now the worlds largest maker of personal computers and employs more than 300,000 workers, according to the Santa Cruz newspaper. Aware that its large size makes it more difficult to quickly adapt its software development initiatives in response to the rapidly changing technology marketplace, the company created Startup Central last fall to facilitate partnerships with smaller tech companies.
Over the next three years, HP plans to invest $100 million in Startup Central, mostly in the form of product discounts given to software developers and other entrepreneurs.