Microsoft has presented a series of regional SMB awards.  I have found these via Google from press releases put out by the winners. They included regional partners of the year and rising stars for each region, given by Microsoft's U.S. Small and Mid-sized Business (SMB) Group and according to winner press releases were presented in six categories.

TIW Technology. has issued a preview of Alere Business Applications v.12. In its newsletter, the software company also noted it is hiking the price of renewing expired maintenance agreements. Alere v11 launched in March and the newsletter did not give a date for the new edition.

Viewpoint is purchasing Dexter + Chaney, bringing together two veteran construction software companies. Terms were not disclosed. Viewpoint products include Vista, a cloud-based suite for contractors that feature accounting, HR and project management, and ProContractor, estimating, project management, and accounting software, available in both on-premise and cloud versions.