IBM predicts technology will accelerate global expansion of small US businesses

Many more American small businesses will go global using collaboration technology to transform themselves from local businesses into global trading partners, predicted IBM executive Sean Poulley at the US Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week conference. Poulley described how the evolution of technologies, such as Web conferencing, IM, software appliances and portals, offered as software-as-a-service applications will increasingly allow local businesses to transform into global trading partners.

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