Is your business hiring? No? Well, what if someone pays you? The state of Georgia is offering. A new proposal in the Peach State offers a $2,400 tax credit to companies that hire someone who’s currently unemployed.
Georgia’s senate approved the measure last week. Under the terms of the bill, the tax break would kick in [...]

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Speaking at the CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas this morning, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach started not by touting Windows Mobile but by talking about computers — specifically, netbooks. His comments, via webcast, demonstrated how much the tiny, Web-oriented machines are blending the worlds of personal computers and mobile phones.
Bach said Microsoft foresees more netbook PCs being [...]

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The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship unanimously confirmed Karen Gordon Mills, a venture capitalist and Tootsie Roll heiress, as the administrator of the Small Business Administration last night. The full Senate is expected to swiftly confirm President Obama’s nominee for the SBA post, as soon as today.
“Karen Mills is the right person to [...]

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If Facebook is the technology world’s equivalent of a precocious teenager, Microsoft is its middle-aged uncle who isn’t quite cool enough to make it onto the friends list.
That, at least, is the impression they’ve been creating lately. First, the popular social networking site was slower than many others to plug into the Redmond company’s revamped [...]

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Online job advertisements fell by 100,000 in March and the drop has resulted in a decline of over 1.1 million advertised vacancies in the last four months., more  and Congressional tweets: All a-Twitter on Capitol Hill  The microblogging tool is an increasingly popular way for members of Congress to get their message out.

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Several Seattle companies — including Evri, LiquidPlanner, Zillow and Wetpaint — have been nominated for CNET’s Webware 100 awards. Community voting ends April 30. 
Craig McCaw-backed 1Cast has signed a deal to provide its online video news service to the BBC World News, allowing viewers to receive short video segments around topics of their choice.
Bellevue’s SinglePoint said [...]

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Amazon.com is expanding the reach of its MP3 digital music service. The company today opened a new MP3 store on its German language retail site. It’s the second international rollout of Amazon’s digital music service, which launched in the U.K. in December.
Amazon launched the MP3 business in September 2007, selling music tracks free of anti-copy [...]

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