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New Jobs Report Shows Small Businesses Hurting

Last fall, small businesses looked strangely immune to many of the economic woes afflicting large companies that were laying off gads of employees. No more.
Small businesses in the private sector, those with one to 49 employees, lost 284,000 jobs in March, according to the ADP National Employment Report released this morning. Mid-sized businesses Â? defined [...]

Amazon loses appeal in long running Toys “R” Us case

Ever since their ecommerce partnership dissolved in acrimony five years ago, Amazon.com and Toys "R" Us have been duking it out in court. Now, Amazon seems to have encountered another setback in the long-running legal battle. According to Toys "R" Us’ annual report, Amazon lost its appeal of a New Jersey court’s 2006 order allowing [...]

Employee Benefits Get the Recession Axe

National Employee Benefits Day is tomorrow. But itÂ?s not a cause of celebration for many. Coverage of health insurance and retirement security are becoming more worrisome issues for both employers and employees in small businesses than ever before.
Last weekÂ?s release of the 2008 Employee Benefits study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that [...]

YouTube blocks some music videos in Germany

Popular video-sharing site YouTube says it has blocked some content in Germany because of a dispute with the country’s artistic royalty-collecting body., more 

Rekindle those risk-taking animal spirits

The spontaneous urge to action that stimulates any recovery will be triggered if entrepreneurs are unshackled by the lawmakers, writes Luke Johnson, more 

Another Google Killer Dies

, more  and Time Warner Cable Expands Internet Usage Pricing  , more  and H-1B Visa Season Is Here  , more 

HP Is ‘Studying’ Android for PC Use

, more  and Facebook’s CFO Exits: Enter, the Questions  , more  and Server Makers Wild About Intel’s Nehalem  , more 
Online Music Demand Is Up; So Is Uncertainty  , more 

Siemens taps Amazon to create new cloud software

German engineering giant Siemens is working with Amazon.com to test new cloud-based voice and communications software. Siemens rolled out the experimental product at the VoiceCon conference in Orlando and is gauging customer interest. The software runs on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) — and marks another interesting collaboration for Amazon in the cloud computing arena.
Siemens’ [...]

Struggling to find the best iPhone apps? Mobui offers an answer

With more than 27,000 applications in Apple’s iPhone store, it can be tough to keep up with all of the cool stuff. After all, about 100 new applications have been added every day since the store was unveiled in July.
But never fear. Redmond’s Mobui thinks it has figured out an effective way to help people [...]

Accidental entrepreneurs

Some have found success after never imagining they would start a business, more  and A scientist’s place in the sun  Nikolaus Meyer quit academia to launch a thin-film solar technology company, more 

  


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