
The dawning of the 21st century has brought with it a staggering new array of tools, resources changing the very fabric of business as we know it. Though it may take some time to realize with many other changes on the horizon, it has been small business that has seen one of the most significant…

Fountain Valley, California (PRESS RELEASE – January 31, 2011) – D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers, businesses, and service providers, announced that it has launched the world’s first business-grade, cloud-managed Wi-Fi solution specifically built to…

Small business research has been pretty thin over the last couple of months but what little there is happens to be focused on a single big question, “How are we doing?” Or, to be more accurate, “How were we doing?”
The State of Small Business
During the course of 2010, staff…

Government regulation adversely affects small business.
While the finding may be intuitively obvious (to those not in government), World Bank economists recently showed that entrepreneurs create fewer new businesses in countries with regulations that make starting companies more difficult.
Reducing…

Washington, D.C. (PRESS RELEASE – January 31, 2011) – Today, Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council), issued the following statement about the fourth quarter GDP numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic…

New York (PRESS RELEASE – January 30, 2011) – Newtek Business Services, NASDAQ: NEWT, The Small Business Authority, announced today the launch of its live radio broadcast from “The Small Business Authority Studio” at 77WABC Radio in New York. The program, The Small Business Authority…

Big business used to have a monopoly on resources and tools that virtually kept customers hostage if they wanted a certain level or type of service. This is no longer true, and Phil Simon’s The New Small: How a New Breed of Small Businesses Is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies will…

Winston-Salem, North Carolina (PRESS RELEASE – January 30, 2011) – The BB&T Small Business and Middle Market banking groups have won 19 Excellence Awards in national categories from Greenwich Associates, a leading global financial services research and consulting firm. This marks…

Armonk, New York (PRESS RELEASE – January 29, 2011) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, a new workforce mobility offering that provides anytime, anywhere access to personal desktops from mobile devices — including tablets, netbooks, laptops and thin…

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Blogging Success Summit 2011
February 1-22, 2011, Online
Blogging Success Summit 2011 is a live online conference…