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Online Sales Tax Brouhaha Hits More SMB Amazon Affiliates

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:34 PM ET | Jun 29, 2009

Amazon.com has dropped affiliate relationships with small businesses in North Carolina and Rhode Island as the states prepare to implement new laws requiring the company to collect online sales tax.

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Accidental Data Leaks Are Still Data Leaks

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:02 AM ET | Jun 3, 2009

The inadvertent posting of sensitive U.S. nuclear information by the G.P.O. is a reminder to all of us that a) accidents happen and b) accidents involving digital copies of confidential information happen all too easily.

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Obama Cybersecurity Plan: What's In It For SMBs?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:53 PM ET | May 29, 2009

New cyberczar (though no names yet), management from the top, calls for more coordinated cybersecurity efforts, privacy protection -- same old same old, or does the unveiling of the Obama administration's cybersecurity plan promise real changes in the government's approach to scuring cyberspace. More importantly, what's in the plan for small and midsized businesses?

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Real Small Business Leaders Tell It Like It Is

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:42 PM ET | May 20, 2009

Amid the government power players and big business representatives at National Small Business Week, 9 small business leaders took the spot light to tell a congressional committee about their businesses and how they're coping with the recession.

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The Software Warranty War Opens A Second Front

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:09 PM ET | May 19, 2009

The war over software contracts is going global. Judging from the industry's response, it could turn into an ugly -- and fascinating -- fight.

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How To Land A Loan Despite The Credit Crunch

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:25 PM ET | May 18, 2009

Do you make it a practice of giving money to strangers? If you have a few bucks to spare, then chances are you'd give them to someone know. Now ask yourself before you head in for a small-business loan: How well does your banker know you?

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SBA's Karen Mills Kicks Off National Small Business Week

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:52 PM ET | May 18, 2009

Jamiel's Shoes opened its doors the same year traffic first starting flowing across the Golden Gate Bridge. The year was 1937, and the Rhode Island-based, family-owned small business is the same store where many years later Karen Mills shopped for her children when they were young.

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Software Liability Laws: Thinking The Unthinkable

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:50 PM ET | May 11, 2009

Can you imagine a world where the words "software" and "warranty" actually appear on the same page? Maybe it's time to try.

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Obama Still Doesn't Have His Secure Blackberry

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:57 PM ET | Apr 24, 2009

According to the Washington Times, the National Security Agency is still working on the software to encrypt the President's favorite communications device.

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Tax Tips: How To Deduct Your Home Office, And Why You Want To Avoid Penalties

Posted by Jennifer Moline 01:58 PM ET | Mar 18, 2009

The deadline to file taxes is exactly a month away, so if you're still scrambling to gather your paperwork, here are some tips for claiming you home office as a deduction as well as why you want to avoid any penalties.

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How Private Is Google's Cloud? And Is It Any Of The FTC's Business?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:36 PM ET | Mar 18, 2009

Privacy advocacy group The Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's security procedures and practices. Should you be more concerned about Google's lapses than you are (or should be) about any other cloud-based service?

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Technology Tainting Trials? Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:06 AM ET | Mar 18, 2009

The New York Times is wringing its hands over jurors checking the Web during trials, leading to a rash of mistrials. But the Times' story gets the point almost completely backwards. The fault isn't with the technology, or with the jurors. It's with an arrogant, controlling legal system living in a dream world that ignores fundamental changes in the way people access information.

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Small Business Innovation: Don't Forget The Technology

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:44 PM ET | Mar 16, 2009

Defining Small Business Innovation -- a research brief released today -- once again drives home the point that small businesses must innovate to survive. I couldn't agree more, but would place more emphasis on technology as the key to making innovation happen.

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$20 Billion In New Aid For Small Businesses

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:08 PM ET | Mar 15, 2009

The Obama Administration plans to funnel up to $20 billion from the stimulus plan into efforts to aid small businesses in a broad package of initiatives to be announced on Monday.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Government

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 10, 2009

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:21 PM ET | Mar 10, 2009

SMB news: Mac netbook, social network growth, crippled Win 7, free CRM, mobile PayPal, domestic outsourcing, startup funding, SMB optimism & stimulus, smartphone growth, Clearwire CEO, broadband growth, rugged laptop, collaboration platforms, cloud endorsement...

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