Small Business
Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run offers
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.
Budget cuts threaten 1 million at small U.S. firms: report
WASHINGTON - Small businesses in the United States could lose nearly 1 million jobs in 2013 if federal lawmakers do not avert $1.2 trillion in across-the-board budget cuts due to begin taking effect in January, a new study showed.
Swiss railway weighs challenge to Apple over trademark clock
ZURICH - Swiss railway operator SBB and a Swiss watchmaker are considering challenging Apple over the striking similarity between the country's trademark station clocks and the clock on a new operating system for the iPad.
When politics are good, and bad, for small business
Is it good business to let your customers know your politics?
New state regulatory head is no small-business outsider
CORONADO, California - Critics of U.S. state securities regulators say they are out of touch with the needs of small business in a cyber-world. But A. Heath Abshure, who recently stepped up to lead the state regulators' national organization, says he is proof that they are not.
Stradivarius dealer admits embezzlement as trial begins
VIENNA - One of the world's top dealers in precious Stradivarius violins admitted he embezzled money made from the sale of instruments entrusted to him by his customers, but denied fraud charges as his trial got under way in Vienna on Wednesday.
Management Tip of the Day: Make decisions less stressful
BOSTON - Many times the antidote for overloaded consumers isn't more options at the store shelf, it's decision simplicity, says Harvard Business Review.
Small UK firms stymied as banks refuse to lend: lobby
LONDON - Confidence amongst small British companies fell over the summer, as weak consumer demand and a lack of credit continued to hamper firms' growth prospects, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said on Monday.
Start-ups fight back as patent wars intensify
SAN FRANCISCO - The patent wars that have embroiled many of the world's technology giants in recent years are spreading to a new set of combatants: start-up companies and their venture-capital backers.
Textbook cuts hit Kenyan publisher Longhorn
NAIROBI - Kenyan publisher Longhorn said it swung to a pretax loss of 25.9 million shillings ($305,100) in the year ended June 30th after governments slashed funding for textbooks.
Job creation: Where are the startups?
Tim Kane, at the Hudson Institute, has a new paper out with a simple title: "The Collapse of Startups in Job Creation".
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