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The Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced that it has chosen 11 cities to participate in an initiative designed to stimulate jobs and growth while targeting inner-city small businesses. Read More

What A/B testing and multivariate testing really mean, and the implications for your test results. Read More

80% (84%, actually) of the time spent on blogs comes from 20% of the audience, a comScore study finds; this presents an opportunity to develop a unique audience for your blog. Read More

Sometimes it seems like giving consumers choices is what marketing is all about. It's part of why manufacturers and service providers put so much information online for consumers. Yet researchers at the University of Iowa recently found that people who have only a little information about a product are happier with that product than people who ha Read More

A new study shows that Mac users feel superior to those who use a PC in just about everything. Their purchases, preferences and habits are different, too. Read More

In a new working paper called “Do Small Businesses Create Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series,” the economists David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang examine the National Establishment Time Series and conclude that small businesses create more jobs, on net, than larger ones. The earlier literature on this subject h Read More

More women sign on to launch their own businesses each year, and though their businesses are just like male-owned businesses, attracting successful businesswomen is not the same as targeting successful businessmen. A recent report from the Center for Women's Business Research indicates that women and technology goes hand in hand, a plus for onlin Read More

Microsoft this week unveiled Microsoft Online Services for companies of all sizes. Previously, and somewhat incongruously, MOS had been available only to companies with 5,000 employees or more. Now, it's out there for the audience that seems most likely to crave it, SMBs.

MOS consists mostly of hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint serve Read More

New Media Women Entrepreneurs is looking out for the female journalist species, with plans to award $10,000 to fund three women-led start-ups involved in news and information that “will rock the world of journalism." Read More