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• CreditKarma raises $2.5 million to provide credit scores

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - With consumer loans increasingly difficult to obtain, Americans are putting more effort into attracting lenders by monitoring and improving their credit scores. Thats led to more traffic for monitoring sites. And its resulted in an increasing amount of interest in the credit score ...
  15 hours ago

• How Twitter is Changing the Face of Media

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 163
  Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on how to effectively use new technologies. He is the author of the book, Wisdom 2.0 and the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference .
  15 hours ago

• Credit thawing, but U.S. firms balk at borrowing

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For all the talk of U.S. banks not lending, the bigger problem may be that credit-worthy companies simply do not want to borrow.
  16 hours ago

• Little games could see big deals after EA-Playfish

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Incs purchase of Playfish shines a spotlight on an increasingly lucrative segment of the computer games market, one likely to see more deals.
  18 hours ago

• How to Find Ambitious Employees

  
  Millionaire Entrepreneur Forum — Authority: 157
  Attracting proactive people isnt easy, but its well worth the effort. More...
  1 day ago

• Misconceptions stymie womens careers: study

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Womens careers are being stymied by more than a glass ceiling. Bosses believe women have more family-work conflict, which is a misconception that is holding them back, according to new research.
  1 day ago

• Senate Democrats push to open healthcare debate

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday they hope to bring a long-delayed healthcare bill to the floor next week, kicking off a tough fight that may well spill into next year.
  1 day ago

• What health care reform means for small businesses

  
  theCLog — Authority: 489
  Since Charlotte was recently included on a list of the best cities to start a small business , thought you’d like to know how health care reform will, and won’t, affect the Q.C.’s local business owners. Here’s one story, from ProPublica.org : Using results from a questionnaire we did with American ...
  1 day ago

• Kiva.org Facilitates $100 Million in Microloans

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 479
  Four-year old microloan site, Kiva.org, can be proud. It has now facilitated over $100 million in microloans between lenders and (largely third world) entrepreneurs from around the world.With around... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  1 day ago

• LinkedIn and Twitter link up

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LinkedIn and Twitter have linked up. Starting immediately, users of LinkedIn and Twitter can cross-file to each others services, by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn.
  1 day ago

• U.S. small business optimism edges higher in October

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. small businesses grew slightly more optimistic last month but owners remained cautious as weak sales gave them little reason to order new stocks, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
  1 day ago

• JPMorgan to add $4 billion in small business loans

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co
  1 day ago

• Value + Simplicity = Success

  
  Millionaire Entrepreneur Forum — Authority: 157
  The keys to success in business are old as time. Add value and keep it simple. More...
  2 days ago

• Electronic Arts buys social game maker Playfish

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other consideration as the maker of the "Madden NFL" series expands in the growing social gaming sector.
  2 days ago

• Obama plans small business forum

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has set a November 18 date for a small business forum to define a new initiative to boost lending to smaller firms and help reverse U.S. job losses, an administration official said on Monday.
  2 days ago

• Healthcare bill faces tough path in Senate

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a landmark win in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obamas push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed.
  2 days ago

• Advanta files for bankruptcy protection

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advanta Corp , a small business credit card lender in the United States, said on Sunday it filed for bankruptcy protection after the economic crisis over the last two years devastated its small business customers.
  3 days ago

• The Intersection of Awareness and New Media

  
  Millionaire Entrepreneur Forum — Authority: 157
  Social media and sustainability converge to create consumers who are more knowledgeable than ever. More...
  4 days ago

• Jobless rate surges to 10.2 percent

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
  4 days ago

• U.S. top court to hear business method patent case

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 822
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Software, biotech firms and others who develop new ways to do business will be watching closely on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case that could determine if such innovations can win patent protection.
  5 days ago

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