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Business Tech News: The Best Hardware and Software of 2024/2025
Here are five business technology news events that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
Business Tech News #1 – The best hardware and software of 2024/2025.
PCWorld’s Brad Chacos has listed his picks for the best hardware and software of 2024-2025. (Source: PCWorld)
Why it matters to your business:
Whatever your business, you want to buy the best products, right? This list includes laptops, desktops, chips, password managers, VPNs, backup software, and other essential technology you’ll need. This is a great summary that I bookmark when we make hardware and software purchases throughout the year.
Business Tech News #2 – The Best Home Tech Jobs of 2024/2025.
They are back! PCWorld’s Katherine Stevenson presented her list of the best work in home technology, based on personal testing by the magazine’s staff. (Source: PCWorld)
Why it matters to your business:
I’m including this because many entrepreneurs, freelancers, and employees of large companies are working from home and shouldn’t they be using the best? Here you can choose from budget-friendly laptops with long-lasting battery life, Chromebooks, keyboards, docking stations, and other essential tools for your work-from-home employees and remote workers.
Business Tech News #3 – QuickBooks Online Accountant now offers call summaries and live cleanup.
QuickBooks Online Accountant introduced new features: automated call summaries and live cleaning services. (Source: Accounting today)
Why it matters to your business:
If you run an accounting firm and use QuickBooks Online for your clients, these are important features to take advantage of. If you run a business, it’s also important to make sure your accountant is familiar with these tools, as it will save them time and hopefully billable hours. Call summaries provide detailed logs of support calls between customers and QuickBooks Live experts, helping customers track questions and answers for future reference. The live cleaning service helps prepare clients’ books for tax season by categorizing transactions, checking for errors, and reconciling accounts to ensure accuracy. Cleanups are typically completed within 30 days with access to a QuickBooks certified accountant. These features are available through QuickBooks Online Accountant at a 30% discount for Pro Advisors.
Business Tech News #4 – LinkedIn updates Campaign Manager with Companies Hub.
LinkedIn has introduced the Companies Hub within its Campaign Manager. (Source: Digital Marketing News)
Why it matters to your business:
According to LinkedIn, this new feature provides B2B marketers with deeper insights into how businesses engage with their brand, as detailed in the Business Engagement Report. Marketers can now sort, filter and review metrics like engagement levels, organic and paid interactions, company data and campaign performance. They can also create audiences based on this information before launching campaigns and track ad impact and engagement post-campaign. Companies Hub is available globally and aims to help marketers plan and measure their efforts. LinkedIn advertising is expensive, but you get what you pay for. The LinkedIn community is a valuable audience for anyone selling B2B. If you’re looking to get the most out of your LinkedIn campaigns, it makes sense to take advantage of this tool’s features.
Business Tech News #5 – A tech journalist continues to turn his Google Sheets into phone-friendly web apps, and he can’t stop!
Kevin Purdy from Ars Technica shared his experience building small, no-code web applications using spreadsheets. Using tools like Google Sheets and Glide – software that allows businesses to create custom tools – Purdy uses the web apps for a variety of purposes, such as managing takeout orders with search and search functions. simpler filtering. These apps are also easy to share and can be installed on phones, tablets or desktop computers. Purdy explains in detail how the data is sorted, emphasizing the convenience and flexibility of this approach, especially for small-scale personal projects. (Source: Ars Technica)
Why it matters to your business:
What can you and your employees do more effectively? Is it worth hiring someone to help your employees create web applications using Google Sheets to save them time? Most of us are too busy to take the time to discover how available (and inexpensive) technology can actually save us hours of work. Purdy’s story reminds us that having – or paying for – a tech-curious person can pay off in many ways for your business.
Each week, I find five business technology news stories that impact your business (and mine), then explain why. See you next week!