Small Business News

The head of the RI Dept. of Health met with small business owners to discuss H1N1, and why small businesses are extremely vulnerable to the flu virus.

WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki yesterday announced the framework of a bold initiative to end homelessness among veterans within five years.

The Office of Fair Trading is facing pressure over concerns that small Scottish businesses have difficulty accessing finance.

Gordon Brown's business tsar Alan Sugar was under siege last night after dismissing struggling small firms as ' moaners' who lived in 'Disney World'. The multi-millionaire claimed a mere 15 per cent of businesses turned down for bank loans had anything to complain about.

Mountain View, Calif. Nov. 02, 2009 Intuit Inc . has completed its acquisition of Mint.com , a fast-growing provider of online personal finance services based in Mountain View, Calif.

The Senate Democratic chairman said Tuesday the panel is investigating how health insurers price the coverage they sell to small businesses, which have struggled for years with soaring premiums.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge set a Dec. 8 hearing to consider approval of CIT Group Inc's reorganization plan, aiding the large commercial lender's effort to emerge from bankruptcy by year's end.

FISTED?: A third of U.S. adults said they would spend less this year than they did in 2008 on gifts, while 49 per cent would spend about the same amount, according to a Consumer Reports poll on holiday shopping.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

Thousands of small businesses could get a break on their electric bills from Alabama Power starting with the new year.

Consumers could cross state lines to buy coverage. There'd be no big government expansion.

By Ann Meyer, SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE -- Chicago Tribune , November 2, 2009 Monday Chicagoland Final Edition To grow his health care supply manufacturing company, Ash Luthra needed money and workers.

CIT Group Inc., in one of the biggest corporate bankruptcies ever, filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York on Sunday.

CIT Group Inc's bankruptcy filing, while long expected, could still trigger a financing crunch for many of the hundreds of thousands of small businesses it finances.

Their wealthy counterparts, however, face big tax increases that could eventually hit future generations of taxpayers who are less wealthy.

This city's most popular neighborhoods are night owls, streets that come alive when the restaurants and pubs set the mood and light their candles.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

Lender CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in an effort to restructure its debt while trying to keep loans flowing to the thousands of mid-sized and small businesses.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too high, but that the priorities now are economic growth and job creation.

Office Accounting, Microsoft's bookkeeping and management software that integrates with the ubiquitous productivity suite, is being discontinued on Nov.