With the rise of iPhone crazies, Blackberry geeks and Android fanatics, mobile search is finally beginning to experience the growth that search folks hoped it would. Services like FourSquare, Twitter geolocation and Yelp for Mobile will only intensify this growth over the coming year as they create…
Marketing to consumers’ cellphones has long been viewed as something of a holy grail by businesses – prized but always beyond reach. Recently however, new mobile technologies have gone mainstream, making the elusive goal of an always-on connection with customers firmly within reach of…
OKLAHOMA CITY (PRESS RELEASE – December 29, 2009) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently announced that Oklahoma-based Avondale Investments, LLC, is one of the selected six firms from more than 200 submissions nationwide to help manage its portfolio of assets in the wind-down…
The end of the year is a great time. Not only do you have the holidays, the cheer, and good friends and family close by, you also have the perfect start date for everything. Let me provide some examples and you tell me when it sounds familiar.
When are you going to rewrite your site content?…
A Treasury report released on December 15, 2009 showed that major banks decreased their business loan balances by $1 billion in October, CNNMoney.com says.
Starting in April, the 22 banks that received TARP funds as part of the federal government’s bank bailout had to start filing monthly…
The numbers show that companies will invest more resources into social media in 2010 as a way to market themselves and find new customers. And that trend won’t exclude small business owners. SMB owners who have previously ignored the medium completely will find themselves entering the fold.…
Credit card interchange fees became a hot issue in 2009. Big retailers got hot under the collar — and so did small merchants who are watching their profits with a hawk’s eye.
Interchange, or “swipe” fees are fees that credit card companies and banks charge every time…
Like the rest of the world this year has been rather interesting for small business in Australia. By all accounts our economy has weathered the economic crisis quite well with the economy forecast to grow in 2010.
The latest MYOB Business Monitor revealed that business confidence is growing;…
The long standing struggle between Israel and the Arab Middle East is certainly well known. But did you know Israel has produced more NASDAQ-listed publicly traded companies than Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, China, and India combined? Moreover, Israel has more engineers and scientists per…
What’s better than cash and prizes for your business in the new year? Lots of new contests and competitions for entrepreneurs and small businesses to enter in 2010, including a bunch in January. This listing is updated every two weeks and brought to you as a community service by Small…
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