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						<title><![CDATA[Autotask CEO: With Consumerization Over, SMBs Stand To Be Fastest IT Growth Area]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:58:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Autotask CEO Mark Cattini tells CRN why consumerization was the biggest change in IT in the past 10 years, and what IT needs to do to keep up.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Accenture Sees Q4 Growth, 'Stable Plus' Future Ahead]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Accenture reported earnings showing revenue growth and record bookings, with executives predicting steady growth for fiscal year 2014.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[NetEnrich Looks To Make MSPs More Efficient With Enhanced IT Operations Platform]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rob Wright</author>
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							<![CDATA[NetEnrich hopes the improvements to its IT operations platform will help partners simplify their managed services operations in an increasingly complex world of hybrid IT environments.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Panorama9's Updated MSP Program Adds More Integration Options, Control]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Updates to Panorama9 cloud IT management platform add increased MSP partner capabilities for client system management.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Lumenate VP: Organic Growth Out, Acquisition-Based Growth In]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[A month after its merger with DPSciences, Lumenate talks about its merger with DPSciences and its successful strategy of acquisitions over an organic growth model.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mass. Governor Says He Now Supports Repeal And Replace Of Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:33:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Mass. Governor Deval Patrick has announced that he supports the repeal and replace of the tech tax, but legislators and local businesses worry it won't be enough.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Round 2: Mass. Republicans File Second Anti-Tech Tax Legislation]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Following up on their roundtable discussions, Massachusetts Republicans have filed a second piece of legislation to repeal the state's tech tax.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[In Sweet Deal, Accenture Helps Put Twinkies Back On Shelves]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:33:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Accenture has teamed with Hostess Brands to provide the IT infrastructure and managed service support to revive the classic Twinkie.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[How Did It Happen? The Massachusetts Tech Tax Timeline]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[A CRN timeline helps explain how a tax on software services develops in less than eight months from an idea into issue that has an industry up in arms.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mass. Governor Holds Closed-Door Meeting On Controversial Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Governor Deval Patrick's invite-only meeting on the Massachusetts tech tax drew a group of pro-tax legislators and friends of the governor, among others, to discuss the contentious tax on software services.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Look Out Massachusetts Tech Tax, Repeal Movement Is Gaining Ground]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[A ballot approval, a meeting with the governor and a growing phone campaign were all huge steps Wednesday in Massachusetts toward the repeal of the infamous tech tax.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[State Reps Question Massachusetts Governor's Change Of Heart On Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[State representatives weigh in on Gov. Deval Patrick's recent comments on the software services tax, in which he said the issue is 'very concerning.']]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Study: It'll Soon Be Bring Your Own Computer To Work Day, Every Day]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:06:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Some businesses may begin requiring their employees to bring their own computer to work by 2017, a Gartner study predicts.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Grassroots Movements Growing To Fight Massachusetts Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[In response to growing anger around the Massachusetts software services tax, businesses are rallying supporters to fight back against the tech tax in the courts and in the legislature.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Tech Tax Roundtable: Tax Will Kill My Business, Mass. Economy]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Local businesses gathered in Massachusetts for one of eight roundtable discussions on the implications of the software services tax on their business.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Lawyer Takes Tech Tax To Court To Give Businesses Breathing Room]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[In the latest fight against the Massachusetts tech tax, a local lawyer is filing a lawsuit to freeze implementation of the hotly contested tax on software services.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mass. Tech Tax Opponents Worried Tax Will Stick Around To Save Face]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:36:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Opponents of the tech tax say they do not expect the software services tax will be repealed because supporters are afraid of the backlash from reversing their opinions.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mass. State Rep: 10 Reasons I Opposed The Tech Tax, And Still Do]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[State Rep. Daniel Winslow discussed why he thinks the Massachusetts tech tax is a bad idea for business.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[GOP Announces Massachusetts Roundtables To Discuss Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Massachusetts Republican Caucus announces weeklong roundtable discussions on tech tax and the implications a software services tax has on local businesses.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Global Business Looks To Leave Massachusetts, Reduce Headcount After Tech Tax Hit]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:43:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[A CEO of a global company based out of Massachusetts is looking to move out of state and limit employees to compensate for tech tax cut in profits.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Tech Tax Passed Amid $600 Million Revenue Surplus]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Just a month before the tech tax was passed, Massachusetts revealed a  surplus for the year and legislators expect even higher numbers for 2014.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[5 Myths Circulated By Memos In Massachusetts Legislature About Tech Tax]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Memos sent around the Massachusetts House and Senate Friday to explain the software services tax to legislators continued to feed misleading information about the tech tax.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Discounts Lure Nonprofits, Educators And Government To The Cloud]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Office 365 discounts are helping drive the push to cloud computing for nonprofits, education and government, managed service providers and solution providers said.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[The Perennial Channel Question: Why Should I Do Business With You?]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Robert Faletra</author>
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							<![CDATA[As the move to more toward managed services, off-premises private cloud and, ultimately, to public cloud continues, the criteria vendors will use to choose channel partners will change.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[State Senator: Massachusetts Tech Tax 'Modernizes The Tax Code']]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[In a memo circulated among the Massachusetts legislature, supporters of the tech tax reiterate its benefits and the reasoning behind it.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Senator Voted Multiple Times For Tech Tax Before Asking For Repeal]]></title>
						<link>http://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/240160049/senator-voted-multiple-times-for-tech-tax-before-asking-for-repeal.htm?cid=rss_tax_Managed-services</link>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:47:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Senator proposing legislation to repeal tech tax voted at least three times to pass it, and weeks before professed how important the tech industry was.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA['Shark Tank' Entrepreneur: 20 Secrets To Surviving Vicious IT Waters]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[Kevin O'Leary, a successful software entrepreneur featured on the hit ABC television show "Shark Tank," shares 20 secrets on how to survive in the fast-paced information technology age.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Analyst Firm Predicts Huge Managed Services Growth, But MSPs Urge Caution]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Although recent numbers predict huge jump in managed service provider market, industry members remain cautious about the future.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[What Do You Need To Know About The Massachusetts Software Services Tax?]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[As the Massachusetts tax on software services is already in effect, MA lawyers break down what it means for service providers in the state and across the nation.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[SaaS Rewards Should Reflect The Risks]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rick Whiting</author>
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							<![CDATA[SaaS vendor payments to channel partners should be tied to the lifetime value of a deal, not just the customer's monthly or quarterly payments, says an Internet software executive.]]>
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