Reuters: Small Business News

Start-ups give Google thumbs-up over Microsoft

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:35:40 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley start-ups, increasingly dropping Microsoft and turning to Web-based software, may be the crucial opening Google needs for its Chrome operating system.

Venture capitalist confidence up, still wary: survey

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:46:22 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Venture capitalists believe the worst of the financial crisis is behind them but are not expecting a rapid recovery in initial public offerings and deals this year, a quarterly survey released on Wednesday showed.

U.S. retail stocks don't sink after June sales

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:03:16 -0400

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Retailers with a value message showed signs of strength on Thursday even though overall June sales were a bit of a disappointment.

U.S. makes $3 billion available for renewable energy

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:09:34 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled guidelines that will allow companies to apply for some $3 billion in government funds to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country, creating jobs.

Jobless claims drop, data skewed by auto jobs

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:58:19 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level since January, but the seasonally adjusted data was distorted by an unusual pattern of layoffs in the automotive industry.

For many Americans, health cover is key to a job

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:07:36 -0400

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (Reuters) - Real estate agent Lisa DeWaal serves coffee at a Starbucks outlet for four hours every morning before she goes to the office to start her "day job."

Smaller U.S. BDCs cash in on larger rivals' woes

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:07:24 -0400

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Smaller U.S.-based business development companies (BDCs), armed with strong balance sheets and minimal liquidity concerns, are poised to gain from the woes of larger rivals like American Capital and Allied Capital that are wounded by the credit crunch.

Apps a nail in coffin of broadcast mobile TV

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:32:58 -0400

HELSINKI (Reuters) - For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening the demise of that vision.

Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:55:16 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Seattle clinic for people fed up with insurance, started by doctors fed up with insurance, has gotten $4 million in private venture capital money to expand, it announced on Monday.

News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:44:05 -0400

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, said the media conglomerate's chief executive, Rupert Murdoch.