Category: customers

Microsoft Warns Thousands of Cloud Customers of Exposed Databases

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure’s flagship Cosmos DB database….


How to Keep Your Customers Happy (Even If They’re Wrong)

By Donna Peeples Knowing your customers and putting them first is fundamental to any growth strategy. More and more, companies use approaches like dynamic segmentation to learn who their customers are and to market and communicate in highly targeted and more cost-effective ways to specific groups. Those types of strategies make it obvious that not all…


6 Ways to Give Your New Business a Head Start

By Adrian Nita At the start of a business, it can be difficult to know what is best. How does one grow? Should you keep expanding your product line or focus on getting new customers? Getting lost in this maze will inevitably lead you down an unproductive path, and all too soon, your company becomes more…


Customers Chip In to Send Favorite Tim Hortons Worker Back to College: ‘He Makes Your Day’

When a drive-thru employee with an infectious positive persona was forced to drop out of college, customers rallied to his aid, raising enough funds to send him back to school to finish his degree. Vishnu Gopansothilingan, an employee at Tim Hortons at Sobeys plaza, in Ontario, Canada, was blown away by his beloved customers’ generosity. “He…