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- The Senate votes to give remaining $110 billion or so in TARP funds to be spent to support small businesses. (Some Senators had called for that earlier this week.) [WSJ]
- The Senate confirmed Karen Gordon Mills as new SBA administrator late Thursday. (Read about her confirmation hearing here.) [BizJournals.com]
- A Kauffman Foundation survey finds [...]

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Medio Systems co-founder Michael "Luni" Libes has left the heavily-funded mobile search company and is now pursuing a new idea to measure activities on the mobile Internet. The new entity is called Ground Truth, though Libes shared few details about what he’s building or who’s involved.
"It is a business plan. It is not a company yet," [...]

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Microsoft has sold Franchise Gator to Landmark Interactive for about $20 million, according to a report today on PaidContent.org. The business, which markets business franchise opportunities, was acquired by aQuantive in May 2006, for about $21.5 million. That was prior to Microsoft’s $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive.
The news is interesting in part because of the [...]

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A family member who sells Mary Kay cosmetics recently invited me to a product demonstration hosted by another sales rep. I went, and was rather surprised: About half the time was spent trying to convince me and the other attendees to become Mary Kay sales reps. The pitch: The economy is so bad that, even [...]

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Twitter unveiled a redesign this week that includes a built-in search box in the sidebar of its home page. Currently available to a subset of users, the new Twitter Search lets users easily reach out beyond their network and see what other people are talking about., more 

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, more  and Search Ad Spending Shows Slowdown Signs  , more  and Palm Pre at CTIA: Anticipation and Frustration Grow  , more 
Cable TV: Pushing to Become More Web-like  , more 

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Earlier this year, as Microsoft executives continued to lust publicly for a Yahoo search agreement, I started to wonder why the Redmond company wasn’t turning its attention to Twitter instead.
Sure, a Yahoo deal would immediately give Microsoft 20 more points of market share. But when you really start to think about Twitter, the whole Yahoo [...]

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Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You’re going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you., more 

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