What's in a name?

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What is an SME? Is it any different to an SMB? Are employee numbers more important to the definition than turnover? CRN attempts to untangle the web

Shakespeare famously said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and that may generally prove true. Yet in business, names and definitions really do matter - not least for companies at...

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