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SMBs Take Spotlight

Dont tell Michael Barrera that small businesses are a marginal part of the U.S. economy. Barrera, national ombudsman for the U.S. Small Business Administration, in...

Yahoo Buys Widget Company

Yahoo is venturing into new territory after acquiring the tiny yet influential software company Pixoria last week. The company makes small desktop applications that...

Yahoo Rewrites Script for Webs Next Act

When youre new to a city and havent yet figured out the good places to go, you need a car. Its a complex piece...

Data-Theft Case Proves Need For New Disclosure Law

Top payment-system executives traveled to Washington on Thursday to try to convince members of Congress that no new laws are needed for credit card...

Patriot Act Reform Outreach Scuttled

Corporate America mobilized this week to break a nearly four-year silence on the FBIs expanded powers to demand sensitive customer information, but persistent cold...

HP to Shrink Its Research Labs

Hewlett-Packard is changing the way of its research labs.The Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant will lay off about 10 percent of its 700 HP...

Testers Check Out MSN Shopping Portal Beta 2

MSNs revamped shopping portal is inching closer to its final release. MSN fully rolled out the second public beta refresh of its new shopping site...

Oracle Multicore Licensing Ignores Market Reality

Oracle is only postponing the inevitable by stubbornly maintaining its policy of licensing its software on a per-core basis, especially as chip vendors prepare...

CardSystems to Congress: We Face Imminent Extinction

Despite a steady stream of reported data thefts this year—most recently by CardSystems Solutions Inc.—members of Congress are unable to agree on how to...

Web Tags Gain Backers at AlwaysOn

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The phenomenon of tagging the Web appears to be gaining more converts, as another online startup embraces the metadata annotations and as...