Facing the challenges of starting a small business (USA Today)
Near 1,800 budding business owners responded to USA TODAY's Small Business Challenge. For the next six months, we will follow five groups of entrepreneurs from across the country as they navigate starting their own small business.
U.K. Business Investment and Swiss Growth Outlook Improve Adding to Case For Global Recovery (Daily FX via Yahoo! Finance)
The Swiss KOF institute raised their growth forecasts for 2010 and 2011 with next year’s outlook nearly tripled to 1.7% from 0.6%. The survey of overall; business economic activity is predicting that growth will continue to improve into 2011 at a pace of 2.2% versus early forecasts of 1.5%.
PRESS RELEASE: Fitch: Business Mortgage Finance Series (Fox News)
PRESS RELEASE: Fitch: Business Mortgage Finance Series
Protecting Sensitive Business Data on the iPad (PC World via Yahoo! News)
The Apple iPad is coming, and--thanks primarily to the iPhone revolution--it is guaranteed to break out of its consumer-oriented shackles and start showing up at work. A quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation comes to mind: "Resistance is futile." Your business data will be assimilated.
Business event : Small business seminar (Sun-Sentinel)
SCORE is sponsoring a seminar A small business seminar, will be presentt Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., at the Percy White Library, 837 E. Hillsboro Blvd., in Deerfield Beach.
Business events scheduled for Friday (AP via Yahoo! News)
Major business events and economic events scheduled for Friday:
Jailed US missionary faces business, personal woes (AP via Yahoo! News)
As an Idaho woman sits in a jail in Haiti, her Internet business is closing and her ex-husband is seeking sole custody of their 5-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.
Get Your Business Ready for the iPad Invasion (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Don't say you haven't been warned. Whether or not you recognize or sanction the Apple iPad tablet device as a legitimate business tool, your employees will soon have them in hand and invade your business. Now is the time to begin considering how you plan to address assimilating the primarily consumer-oriented tablet into your business environment.
Business investment falls in Q4 (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Business investment in Britain fell 4.3 percent between October and December 2009, slightly less than previously estimated but still giving a record 23.5 percent annual drop, official data showed on Friday.
Selfridges website opens for business (Daily Telegraph)
Selfridges, the department store, has finally opened for business on the internet becoming the last major retailer to operate a shopping website.