There’s more noise from Washington as politicians continue to respond to small businesses’ plea for looser credit.
This time, two senators - Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine - are asking the Treasury to use bailout funds to guarantee bank lines of credit for small businesses.
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim [...]
Palo Alto-based Facebook confirmed today it is looking for a new chief financial officer with ‘public company experience.’ It’s the latest sign that the site may be looking to go public in the not-so-distant future., more
The computer security world is in suspense as the clock ticks down toward the April 1 climax of the potentially nefarious Conficker worm. The worm targets a vulnerability that Microsoft patched last October, but it has continued to spread to unpatched machines, which are set to use peer-to-peer technology to "get further instructions."
Security researchers aren’t [...]
The spontaneous urge to action that stimulates any recovery will be triggered if entrepreneurs are unshackled by the lawmakers, writes Luke Johnson, more
29 Mar
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Microsoft is accustomed to seeing people leave the company. After all, with close to 90,000 employees, workers always are on the move. But The New York Times today contrasts the Microsoft employees who are now leaving because of layoffs with those who took off before to pursue everything from venture capital to charity work to [...]
Our banks are on the rocks because a true sense of ownership, obligation, responsibility and prudence went missing in recent years, writes Luke Johnson, more
Barron’s gives a glowing take on Amazon.com in a new cover story titled "The World’s Best Retailer," proclaiming, "This may be an opportune time to add shares of Amazon.com to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout." It’s a remarkable U-turn for Barron’s, which famously labeled the online retailer "Amazon.bomb" a decade ago.
Here’s more from [...]
Frank Catalano: No one should be surprised that Redmond-based photo sharing and greeting company Smilebox is trying something new with advertising and distribution in the –well — real world.
Earlier this month, Smilebox announced that it would experiment with placing an ad on the lower right corner of the front cover of Scholastic Parent & Child. At [...]
28 Mar
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Choking back tears in front of a packed courtroom, former Entellium executives Paul Johnston and Parrish Jones were sentenced Friday afternoon to three and two years in federal prison, respectively, for misrepresenting financial figures to the board of the Seattle startup company.
The sentences, imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, were each less [...]
- Some ways to find business leads using Twitter. Among them: Using the advanced search function and setting up RSS to monitor other conversations. [DuctTapeMarketing.com]
- The state of black entrepreneurship in the U.S. is bleak, researchers say. [Entrepreneur.com]
- We mentioned this week how the bottled water industry is getting some flack for being environmentally hazardous. [...]
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