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Just as Google has come to own a significant portion of my online life, the same can be also said about many businesses around the world. Continuing with this trend, the Goliath of a search engine recently launched the Google Apps Marketplace, allowing third-party developers to take advantage of the increasingly powerful Google Apps platform.

Conventional wisdom will have businesses running their own internal servers, but Google Apps can put all of that information “in the cloud.” By doing so, employees can access the equivalent of…

It would certainly be nice to have the same kind of expense account as high-ranking corporate executives, but not everyone is quite so lucky. This applies to people who are self-employed, as well as regular employees who need to fit their regular business travel expenses into the company’s budget. This is especially true given today’s economic climate.

According to the IRS, deductible travel expenses can include such costs as airplane tickets, in-town transportation, hotel stays, dry cleaning, business calls, and equipment rental. All of these can add…