Here’s some fascinating stats from your favorite technology and business services provider.

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Tags: Infographic, Lending, merchant processing, Newtek
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For this month’s Technically Speaking column, we were fortunate enough to speak with Rafael Cappucci of visionASP, someone we respect a lot here at Newtek.

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Tags: content, copy writing, Rafael Cappucci, visionASP, web development
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For our first customer Spotlight, where we showcase a customer who we’ve worked with to build out a custom hosting configuration, we had a chance to speak with Troy Vasquez, Vice President of Digital Attic.

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Tags: Design, Digital Attic, Fresno, Troy Vasquez, video production, web development
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Here’s the ugly truth: Because there are so many different rates and fees involved in having a merchant account, some businesses end up paying more than they expected.

Filed under: small business by Will Rose
Tags: credit card processing, fees, merchant processing, NewtPay
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Take our latest small business survey and see how your response matches up with other business owners.

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Tags: poll, small business, survey
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Tech blogger Jon Stokes of ars technica observed that the term “cloud” is so overused that it now means everything and nothing all at once.
He has a point.
Depending on who you ask, “cloud” still means different things to different people. For some it means Google Apps, SalesForce.com, or even Facebook, which is to say it’s [...]

Filed under: Technology by Will Rose
Tags: asp.net, cloud, green, hosting, Hyper-V, Microsoft, power efficiency, scalability, shared hosting, SQL, virtualization
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Italian Excursion, which offers small-group guided tours through Italy, Tuscany, Umbria, and northern Lazio, focuses on showing you a region of the country that is less frequently traveled. Part of the tour includes a trip to a 4,000 year old Etruscan village, wine tasting and food pairing at a traditional organic winery, and even a visit to Bolsena, the peninsula’s largest (and cleanest) volcanic lake, where the seven-hundred year old Castle of Bolsena overlooks the water.

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Tags: Cheryl Alexander, food, Italian Exursion, Italy, Lazio, Newtek Minute, tourism, travel, Tuscany, Umbria, vacation, wine
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Here’s something you might not know about: We offer custom hosting solutions.

Filed under: General Information, Technology by Will Rose
Tags: Active Directory, CrystalTech, custom, Dedicated hosting, Google Mini, infrastructure, shared, support, Virtual Private Network, VPN, VPS
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As the Los Angeles Times recently put it, gift cards aren’t just for the big boys anymore. Small businesses are starting to reap the benefits as well.

Filed under: small business by Will Rose
Tags: gift card, how to grow your business, increase sales, repeat business, small business
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If you haven’t yet heard, Microsoft recently released the first beta of WebMatrix, a light-weight (and free) software stack that provides everything you need to start building websites using Windows.

Filed under: Development by Will Rose
Tags: asp.net, Development, dotnet, IIS developer, Microsoft, sql compact, webmatrix
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