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Posted by Becky McCray on 23rd July 2008.
No one questions that small businesses are a key driver of the American economy. But US small business owners face a critical hurdle: healthcare costs.
The National Federation of Independent Business, quoted by Zane Safrit, has the count.
Of the 47 million Americans without health insurance, more than 28 million are small business owners, employees and their [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 23rd June 2008.
I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking giant. A company which was valued last week at just over a billion dollars. Perhaps Aladdin thought it would ride the giant’s coat tails.
Unfortunately, the method it chose was to accuse LinkedIn of making industrial espionage easier. “Ah,” thought I, [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 5th March 2008.
It’s official - the minimum wage will go up as of October, reports the BBC. And although they haven’t put anything on their website yet, the Federation of Small Business has circulated its approval to all the journalists it knows. At least, their argument runs, the amount is in line with inflation.
A scan of the [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 7th November 2007.
Not much in the Queen’s Speech to cheer businesses this year, I’m afraid. More training for younger employees, funded by…er…anyway, also there’s going to be an inquiry on whether we need all the red tape introduced by Gordy and his predecessor.
I’m all for an inquiry into red tape. The only problem that I can see [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th September 2007.
Last week saw the second Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. One of the panellists, Toby Moores, is a visiting professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort university in Leicester. He runs a company called Sleepy Dog which is (currently) best known for creating Sony’s Buzz quiz games. He describes his company [...]
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