Opinion
Hosting plan cards should show the renewal price and say it can change
Site.nl's renewal rise from 1 December shows why hosts should print the renewal price, its term and a change warning beside the intro price. Business & Operations
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Opinion
Hosting plan cards should show the renewal price and say it can change
Site.nl's renewal rise from 1 December shows why hosts should print the renewal price, its term and a change warning beside the intro price.
News
Lightspeed cuts 250 roles: what POS buyers should check
Lightspeed says 250 roles are affected by layoffs and closed vacancies. It will give more detail on Nov. 5. Here is what the company has said and what POS customers can check now.
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HubSpot cuts 7% of staff and links the shift to pricing: what to check
HubSpot is cutting about 660 jobs and reorganizing product teams around outcomes instead of Hubs. Its CEO says the shift is changing pricing, with no details yet.
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Shopify now shows AI shopping agents your compare-at prices
Shopify Catalog now passes a product's compare-at price to AI agents, so a markdown can appear as strikethrough pricing. Merchants can switch it off. Here is what shoppers and sellers should check.
Opinion
VoIP price pages should show the monthly rate and fees too
Business phone plans lead with a discounted annual rate. Buyers should see the monthly price, the likely fees and any metered AI charges next to it.
News
Ninja Forms flaw used to hijack WordPress sites: update the plugin now
Attackers are using a patched bug in the Ninja Forms plugin, installed on more than 500,000 WordPress sites, to plant hidden administrator accounts. Here is what to update and what to check.
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Atlassian patches critical file access flaw in self-hosted Jira and Confluence
A critical bug lets attackers who are not logged in read files on unpatched Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian Data Center servers. Cloud customers need do nothing; self-hosted teams should upgrade now.
Guide
SEO for webmasters: a practical guide to getting found in Google
What Google and Bing actually document about crawling, indexing, titles, helpful content, structured data, Core Web Vitals, links and measuring results.
Opinion
Your business data should leave as easily as it arrived
A complete export of your own records, with no exit fee, should come with every paid business software plan. Here is why, and what buyers can check today.
Guide
How to Choose Web Hosting for a Small Business: Types, Renewals and Domains
Shared, managed WordPress, VPS or cloud: which hosting a small business needs, how introductory and renewal prices differ, and how to keep control of your domain.
Guide
How to Choose a CRM for a Small Business: Features, Pricing and Free Plans
When a small business needs a CRM, which features matter, how per-user pricing grows, when a free plan is enough, and how to check you can export your data.
News
HubSpot rebuilds Breeze Assistant and launches a self-updating Smart CRM
HubSpot's Fall Spotlight adds an AI assistant that takes actions, a CRM that logs calls and emails automatically, and ChatGPT Ads integration. What small teams should check.
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Square sellers can now manage Apple Maps listings from the Square Dashboard
A new Square integration with Apple Business syncs hours, address and phone number to Apple Maps and adds order, booking and menu buttons to listings.
Guide
How to Hire a Virtual Assistant: Models, Pricing, Access and Contracts
Managed service or freelance marketplace? What to delegate first, how pricing works, how to test a candidate and how to share access without handing over your logins.
Guide
How to Choose Project Management Software for a Small Team
Boards, lists or Gantt charts, seat minimums, free plan limits and switching costs: a plain guide to choosing project software, or sticking with a spreadsheet.
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Shopify Canvas lets merchants redesign a whole store by chatting with its Sidekick AI
Canvas puts every store page in one workspace and lets Sidekick edit theme code. It is desktop only, in early access, and skips Markets and app blocks.