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Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.

As tablet adoption grows, so too does the amount of sensitive data people transmit using the devices. Almost half (48%) of tablet owners have transmitting sensitive data from the device, according to a survey we wrote about on Monday.

Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Foursquare 3.0 was released this week and the upgrade included significant enhancements to the location app's Merchant Platform for businesses. As ReadWriteWeb's Audrey Watters explained, "The update will make it easier to create campaigns, and it is launching with several pre-set Specials, aimed at both attracting new customers and rewarding loyal ones."

Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why each week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.

On Thursday, we took a look at Flow, a new to-do list management Web app that offers collaborative features for small teams. Flow is still in closed beta, but its feature set and well-designed UI may offer real competition for popular tools like Remember the Milk and Things. There's also a really cool Easter egg hidden on their homepage, if you can find it.

We've been hearing good things about Sparrow, an OS X IMAP e-mail client, since its beta release last fall. The app hit the new Mac App Store earlier this week, quickly shooting up to the top paid app spot.

That speaks volumes about Sparrow as the app costs $9.99 while the web-based access to Gmail, the only email currently supported by the app, is of course free.

When Google introduced its Priority Inbox last year, it was with the promise that the system could help us manage our important email more efficiently. Now Google has published a paper on how the Priority Inbox learns what's important, and on how much time that may end up saving users.

The research comes from Douglas Aberdeen, Ondrej Pacovsky and Andrew Slater from Google's Swiss office, and the data comes from Googlers' usage of Priority Inbox - so take the results for what you will. But according to the findings, Priority Inbox users spent 6% less time reading mail overall, and 13% less time reading unimportant mail.