Apps Now Key to Small-Business Savings

USA Today’s Ed Baig writes that small businesses are increasingly using iPad with apps “for productive purposes,” looking to save time and money. He reports that small enterprises ranging from theater design consultants to real estate brokers are running apps “that turn the iPad into an all-purpose hub for telephony, communications and e-commerce, and a gateway to the PC at the office — or to all the files stored in the cloud.” Baig notes that 72 percent of businesses with tablets use iPad, which “boasts by far the largest number of productivity apps for tablets, leaving Android, Microsoft and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry to play catch-up.”