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October 13, 2010

Small Businesses Borrowing Dropped in May: Pay Net Index

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , , — Winson @ 10:21 AM

As per the report based on PayNet, there was a drastic drop in the level of borrowings by small businesses in USA in the past 7 months. As per the Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index which measures the overall volume of financing to small businesses in USA reported a drop of 5 percent from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis. It was the lowest reading since October. It was recorded as the fourth-lowest level. When compared with the previous year’s index, it was up by 9 percent in May.

  • There was a decrease in accounts in moderate deliquency or those which were behind by 30 days or more in May by 3.36 percent from 3.47 percent in April.
  • Accounts which were 90 days or more behind in payment or in severe delinquency also dropped to 1.11 percent in May from 1.21 percent.
  • The accounts which are behind 180 days or more or in default and also which are unlikely to ever get paid also declined to 0.91 percent of the total receivables in May from 0.94 percent during April.

Regardless, the regulatory overhauls in the US healthcare and finance industries are making it hard for the small businesses to estimate the costs of the future. This is resulting in holding back of spending by small businesses.

Drug Abuse Increasingly Influencing Teens

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: , — Winson @ 8:17 AM

From so many years, thousands of American teens and some of their parents have been surveyed by National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse to learn about attitudes and factors by which the teens are influence to abuse drugs.

According to the report, 32 percent of the children who are aged 12 to 13 years, kept or sold drugs in schools and it was 23 percent in the last year. It may increase to 39 percent in future. Teens who are 11 and 13 years old are 33 times more likely to use tobacco and around 3 times more likely to have tried alcohol. 10 percent of teens use marijuana in drug infested schools.

According to the report, the percentage of older teens increases from nearly 51 percentage to 66 percentage in drug infested high schools. According to the findings, children are kept in the place where illicit drugs are common, so they are surrendered by them and they become addicted to drugs. So, it should be prevented. If any child crosses the age 21 years with out smoking, using illicit drugs or abusing alcohol and over use of prescription medicine then he or she never takes them in their life. But, there is difficult to find such type of children.

According to the survey, there are gangs who are associated with drug abuse in schools. Drug abuse can start in schools. Around 60 percent of the schools are drug infested with these gangs.

So, United States is facing the threat of the teen drug abuse problem. There is a significant increase in number of the teen abusers.

October 12, 2010

SME’s in UK are Implementing Remote Working

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: — Winson @ 8:43 AM

As per IDC Research, about 73 percent of the managers and around 75 percent of IT managers agreed that the remote access services has increased productivity of their staff.

The contribution of SMEs in UK workforce is about 59 percent and more than 50 percent of GDP. The SMEs in UK will lead the economic recovery.

Most of the SME owners agree that flexibility in the way they do their business is vital for their success. This is the reason why many UK SMEs are investing in remote working technologies.

IDC research reported that around 32 percent of the firms were implementing remote working schemes compared to 15 percent across the rest of the Europe. As per a recent survey by LogMeIn, 73 percent of IT managers accepted that remote access services have increased the productivity of their staff members.

As per the survey, only a quarter of SME employees work off-site for about once a week. 12 percent of the SME employees work virtually. About 51 percent of SMEs who were surveyed were planning to increase their use of remote access services in the next 6 months.

Many People Research Businesses Online

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 8:11 AM

According to PEW Research Project, 44 percent of online adults have searched for online information about services and advices that they want to inculcate on professional capacity like a doctor, lawyer or plumber. The PEW Research Project has taken the value of small business reputation management.

According to the Pew Study on reputation management and social media, about just 23 percent of the Internet users who are aged 65 or older research about small businesses online.

People who are likely to research businesses online:

  • 58 percent of college graduates research businesses online.
  • 58 percent of people who come under higher income groups i.e., people who earn $75,000 or more will go for research businesses online.
  • 46 percent of White Internet users will opt for research businesses online.
  • 49 percent of parents will research businesses online.
  • 49 percent of broadband users will research businesses online.
  • Wireless users who contribute about 50 percent will go for research businesses online.
  • 56 percent of social networking users will opt for research businesses online.

HIOC Strengthens Up Content in Education Section

Filed under: Press — Tags: — Winson @ 7:41 AM

Released by: Hyderabad-India-Online.com

Hyderabad-india-online.com (HIOC) increased content in ‘Education’ section with a limited view of education. The focus of this section is to grow the person to look beyond superstition, prevailing practices, rituals and established ways of thinking. This section brings into light, what a real education is all about.

The content in the education section is intended to broaden your horizon to be able to connect meaningfully and positively with the society and its institutions. These articles are created to make you a supporter and enabler of all good things that happen in your immediate society. This section explains the basic theme of education – Getting educated means signing up for doing something positive for the society.

The Education section also provides useful and functional information on ‘White Collar Crime’. As the name goes, ‘White Collar Frauds’ typically involve persons who typically have college degrees as against the illiterate/ uneducated thieves and criminals. There is a wrong perception that there are few or no negative consequences in committing white collar crimes. In fact, its negative impact is a lot more disastrous and one can get his/her career ruined. In this section, you can learn about the negative consequences of getting involved in white collar crimes.

HIOC has several other sections containing information about radio stations in Hyderabad, Hyderabad biryani, Hyderabad maps, Hyderabad petrol, Hyderabad real estate etc., that are useful to the people of Hyderabad.

Besides increasing the content in Education section, HIOC is continuously posting informative articles in various sections like Living@Hyd, Information, Opinions, Real Estate, and Health etc., which help people to make living at Hyderabad easier, save lot of time, and take proper decisions. The information that is provided over here will help people get acquainted with facilities that are present in Hyderabad city to enable better quality of living. HIOC also contains information that will keep you informed about major developments in Hyderabad. This information will increase your awareness about current happenings in Hyderabad and develop an objective outlook.

HIOC caters to that educated, hard-working middle class section of society, which is leading a sensible and virtuous lifestyle and is responsible for all good things happening in Hyderabad.

The opinions expressed at HIOC are insightful and original and that is what differentiates us from other websites. We at HIOC have got a commitment towards providing quality information catering to your needs. There are also several places that claim to offer information about Hyderabad, but we want to exclusively focus on providing information that is useful to people of Hyderabad.

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