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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Aug. 25, 2008 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) today announced both iPhone and BlackBerry integration with QuickBooks®Online, the leading Web-based small business accounting software.
Now the more than 130,000 small businesses that subscribe to QuickBooks Online have even more freedom to manage their business anywhere, anytime - with or without a computer. […]
Entrepreneur:
Federal investigators from the Government Accountability Office have released reports indicating that millions of dollars intended for small businesses were misallocated due to a weak application process in a SBA program.
GAO investigators claim the SBA’s Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program, intended to boost small businesses in economically depressed areas with federal contracts, allowed wealthy, […]
Are you one of those people that have a great business idea, but no money to make it happen? If so, this might be your chance to “Pitch” that big idea to real investors and make your dream come true.
PerfectBusiness.com is announcing the 2008 National Pitch Challenge. The Challenge will search for the […]
HeraldNet:
It’s a fad that’s picking up steam in Snohomish County’s hyper-competitive coffee market.
Espresso drive-through stands with bikini- and lingerie-sporting baristas are popping up from Monroe to Edmonds.
In the past year, at least six of these java joints employing provocatively dressed young women have opened in the county.
A few owners of these roadside stands say business […]
ABC News:
Oil tops a record $120 a barrel? Bad news. Gold reaches a stunning $1,000 an ounce? Potentially very good news indeed.
Especially to Paige Rhodes, 40, of Alexandria, who has heaps of unwanted gold baubles cluttering up her jewelry boxes. Rather than wait for bold gold to come back in fashion — a return to […]
The Age:
The US economy may be slowing but Australian finance company ThinkSmart is charging ahead with its previously announced deal with US office supply giant Office Depot.
The Perth company launched a business-to-business leasing operation at 21 Office Depot stores in Florida, in the lead-up to a nationwide rollout planned for next year.
Chief executive Ned Montarello […]
Franchisewire:
Katherine Doe has joined ActionCOACH, the world’s number one business coaching company, with responsibility for clients in Victoria, Australia.
ActionCOACH leverages career experience, community involvement, and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver the company’s proven sales, marketing, and business management systems to small business owners looking to earn more and work less.
Founded in 1993 on the revolutionary business […]
Independent.ie:
Nicola Byrne, the mother of three who runs Ireland’s only native directory enquiry company, now has plans for European domination.
“I was having a baby and I was so sick that I had to quit work,” she explains. Typically, she used the lay-up as an opportunity to set up her own business selling advertising on tickets. […]
Smart Company:
If criminals hack into your phone system, the first you may hear of it is when the massively inflated phone bill lands on your desk.
At least two Melbourne companies have had their phone systems hacked into by criminals in recent weeks.
The Camberwell Electrics Superstore and Swinburne University have both been hit with collective phone […]
Northwest:
Food and drink companies from across the region are set to benefit from a new, cutting edge e-business portal, ‘FoodPort’, by Food Northwest.
Food Northwest, the organisation set up to lead the food and drink industry and to help grow the Northwest regional economy, has worked in partnership with AIMES, a technology transfer centre at the […]
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