Small Business News

Flashing a badge and toting official-looking documents, the man would show up at small businesses across Oakland clad in a blazer and tie claiming to be a state or federal Labor Department inspector.

A man is facing charges of theft, extortion and impersonating a state officer for allegedly pretending to be a Labor Department inspector and charging small businesses hundreds of dollars.

As the health care battle rages on, one central question keeps popping up: How would legislation affect premiums paid by individuals and small businesses, two groups that currently face wildly unpredictable rate increases year to year? Republicans say premiums would go up, partly because of the possibility of new taxes on insurers.

Kay Bailey Hutchison said Wednesday that she made a mistake by supporting the initial $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial industry and would change her vote if she had the chance.

With the end of the year approaching, small business owners should be scheduling meetings to help them plan for what is hoped to be a stronger 2010.

Oakland police have arrested a man they say was shaking down business owners by pretending to be a labor inspector.

California State University, Monterey Bay invites the community to attend the grand opening of its Small Business Development Center, an innovative program that provides counseling and training to small businesses or people who are trying to start them.

As small business people know, the Obama administration has spent its capital largely on Wall Street and neglected the real job creation engine of the U.S. economy: small business and loans to small business.

Small business owners in New Jersey are not bullish about the economy in the coming year.

Health care forums across North Dakota are bringing small business owners together.

Do small businesses leverage social marketing for their lead generation? A Citibank Small Business survey reports that most do not use or find social media marketing effective.

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WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $18 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support small business innovation research, development and deployment of clean energy technologies.

Saul Gamboa was ready to break ground on a 44,000-square-foot plant in Vernon for his growing small business, Pacific Commercial Truck Body Inc., when he realized he'd missed a key deadline and lost his construction loan.

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NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications.

The New York Times has damned Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and has told it to pay the government rather than its big bonus employees.

As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself.

Katie Tyler is the founder and president of Tyler 2 Construction in Charlotte, N.C. Some of her employees have been on and off her payroll multiple times.

We asked the candidates for the 50th Congressional District seat for their opinions on healthcare reform.