Organizations are flying blind as they embrace cloud services
Among the top 100 services used, the top 10 blocked services in use are Netflix, Foursquare, Apple iCloud, Gmail, Skype, Amazon Web Services, Batanga, Dropbox, KISSmetrics, and PhotoBucket. In the development cloud service category, cloud-based

New members of Panhellenic organizations inducted
But something has never been so worth it in the end to me. I can t wait to make new friends. Caroline Crasnick can be reached at cmc6176@psu.edu or (814) 865-1828. Follow her on Twitter @ccrasnick.

Organizations Pleased That State Courts Are Joining Fight To Rescue Teens From Human Trafficking
Organizations involved in helping rescue teens from prostitution and human trafficking are praising the announcement Wednesday that the state’s court system is joining that fight. NY1’s Dean Meminger filed the following report. She’s a young

Organizations: We need more food
It s been two weeks since Allied Churches of Alamance County and the Salvation Army of Alamance County made significant changes in their food and meal distribution schedules to feed the hungry, and everything is running smoothly but they

Women in Business: Q & A With Hilary Genga, Founder of Trunkettes
Hilary Genga founded Trunkettes when she realized there were no stylish yet comfortable swimwear lines for when I kept looking for women’s swim trunks and never finding them. I finally realized that if no one else cared to fill this void

Doing business in India: Amazon needs to localise to crack an emerging market
Amazon is here, but it’s content to dip its toes while it waits for regulations to change in its favour. If and when they do, it will still face the task of doing something it has never done so far: crack an emerging market. In just three months

Strauss: Small business lessons of ‘Breaking Bad’
Walter White, we hardly knew ye. Heisenberg, we hope we would never meet thee. Like everyone else it seems, I have been fairly mesmerized by Emmy winner Breaking Bad. Especially this last season, the transformation of mild-mannered high school

French business climate improved markedly in September: Moscovici
The data would add to the indicators showing an improvement in the euro zone’s second-largest economy, after a survey by data compiler Markit showed on Monday that business activity grew in September for the first time since early 2012.

PayPal launches financing business to drive more sales
PayPal launched a new financing business Tuesday as the payments division of e-commerce giant eBay tries to generate more sales and fees from small online businesses. PayPal Working Capital will offer loans to online merchants, through Utah

Business Highlights
Government officials have been investigating JPMorgan s handling of mortgage related securities during the financial crisis. WASHINGTON Americans stepped up purchases of new homes in August after cutting back in July, suggesting that higher mortgage

More information about Google+ for businesses revealed
Finally, Christian left us with an encouraging video summing up his thoughts. So we know that Business+ is coming, but we also know about Google s encouragement to maintain individuals in the social space as representatives for their companies is

Should Facebook, Twitter be banned at work?
(CNN) Are Web 2.0 applications money makers or time wasters? The results of a global survey by computer anti-virus giant McAfee suggests it s both. A survey of 1,000 executives from 17 countries stretching from Japan to India, the UK to

Eurozone’s shambolic bailout of Cyprus caused a mini-run on banks
The Eurozone’s shambolic bailout of Cyprus caused a mini-run on banks in several of the 17 members countries of the currency area in April, data [pdf] from the European Central Bank (ECB) showed Wednesday. The level of private bank deposits in a number of