Taking Some of the Work Out of Business

February 1, 2007

(AP) -- Running a business doesn't have to involve so much work. At least, that's the claim of several entrepreneurs at this week's influential DEMO emerging-technologies conference. These people are using Web technologies to give businesses simple tools for automating what otherwise would take armies of people and reams of paper.

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