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    Wednesday Must-Reads

    What you should be reading today on start-ups and small businesses.

  • Wheeling and Dealing for New Domain Names

    Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book. A gathering will give some the opportunity to horsetrade or duke it out.

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    Small Businesses Remain Wary of IPOs

    The JOBS Act was meant to encourage small firms to go public, but most continue to look elsewhere for capital, a study finds.

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    Larry Ellison to Buy Hawaiian Island

    Larry Ellison, the billionaire CEO of Oracle, has struck a deal to buy the bulk of the Hawaiian island of Lanai.

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    Health-Care Tax Credit Eludes Some

    Hundreds of thousands of small businesses are excluded from claiming a health-care tax credit, and many blame overly narrow restrictions.

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    Mayor Taps Official to Aid Small Businesses

    In one of the first attempts to preserve some of his administration's policies after he leaves office, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to establish a new office to help businesses, especially smaller ones, navigate city bureaucracy.

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    Goodbye PowerPoint

    Small businesses are increasingly using iPad apps to make sales presentations, citing the flexibility, portability, intimacy, and an element of the unexpected as all being good for sales. Will the iPad ultimately dethrone PowerPoint as the standard software for presentations?

  • Landing a Job at an Ad Tech Start-Up

    Start-ups focused on advertising technology are booming as brands struggle to go digital. Here's how to make the connections and hone the skills you'll need to land a job at one.

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    Small Employers Welcome Work Permits for Young Immigrants

    A new policy to stop deporting some undocumented aliens lets businesses off the hook for the job of policing immigrant workers, small-business groups say.

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    A Young Entrepreneur's Sweet Idea

    Starting a candy brand from scratch might seem ill-fated. But 15-year-old Nicky Bronner, with the help of his well-connected father, is out to build a business with products that contain only natural ingredients.

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    Lawmakers Question Small-Business Group's Funding

    House Democrats cite ties to a Republican super PAC in the NFIB's legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

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    How to Collaborate on a New Product

    Some entrepreneurs hope they'll benefit by working together to collaborate on new products, in order to fast track production and branch into new markets. But before you seek to co-develop a new product, there are some possible pitfalls to think about.

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    Immigrants Keep Small-Business Faith

    Immigrants are more inclined to own small businesses than native-born Americans and are increasingly opening shop in areas beyond the major cities in which they have traditionally settled.

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    Why Estonia Is a Start-Up Nation

    What is it about Estonia that produces so many start ups? It has three things in its favor: political leadership, the success of Skype, and its culture.

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    Silicon Valley Faces Private Sanity Check

    A wave of sanity is washing over Silicon Valley after Facebook's listing debacle, and that may be bad news for private companies looking to raise money. Suddenly, investors seem to care about business fundamentals again.

Venture Capital Dispatch

How I Built It

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    Ground Zero in Greek-Yogurt Craze

    Chobani, which is widely credited with launching the Greek yogurt craze in the U.S., landed on shelves only five years ago. Company founder Hamdi Ulukaya talks about how he built his company.

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    A Haven for Aged Super Heroes

    Metropolis Collectibles Inc., a 14-person firm, buys and sells vintage comics. It recently sold an Action Comics #1 from 1938 (which debuted Superman) for $2.2 million. Take a look inside.

Real Time Economics

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    Wall Street Journal on Small Business: How to use video to promote your small business. Also, could your company run without a boss? Hear the firms that swear by it. And four rules for running a family business.

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    Fiat to Boost Stake in Chrysler

    Italian auto maker Fiat is expected to boost its ownership of Chrysler to 61.9% from 58.5% as early as next week by purchasing shares held by a trust that provides health care for retired union workers.

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    General Mills Cautious on Outlook

    General Mills posted slightly higher quarterly earnings and issued a muted outlook amid plans to spend more to fix struggling businesses—like its U.S. Yoplait yogurt division—and promote growth in emerging markets. But it said commodities costs are likely to be more manageable.

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    GM India, Tata Motors to Suspend Production This Week

    Tata Motors and the local unit of General Motors will suspend vehicle production at their factories this week to avoid piling up stocks amid tepid demand in Asia's third-largest automotive market.

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