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The deadline is Friday for nominations for the Small Business Administration’s 2010 small business awards. The awards include categories for small businesses and small-business advocates.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has run out of economic stimulus money for its two most popular loan programs, leaving thousands of small businesses in limbo unless funding is extended.
The U.S. Small Business Administration ranked M&T Bank the number nine lender to small businesses in the nation.
Small businesses - those employing 100 or fewer - have suffered during the recession as spending has dropped and borrowing has become more difficult.
Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is launching a series of traveling business conferences for minority business owners, beginning Tuesday morning at the Greenbelt Marriott in Prince George's County.
CORPUS CHRISTI —Bringing business to Corpus Christi could become easier with new incentives approved recently by the City Council.The changes make it possible for small businesses to qualify for tax abatements and gives companies a comprehensive list of incentives, said Roland Mower, Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corp. president.“It’s more flexible. It’s more competitive,” said ...
A small-business owner who travels frequently to Brazil has learned the country’s secrets and even enjoys the flight.
ATLANTA----The U.S. Small Business Administration announces today that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Maryland because of vomitoxin resulting from wet weather that occurred from May 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009.
FORT SMITH — While executives who steal from their employers like former Walmart executive Tom Coughlin capture headlines, small businesses are hit the hardest by employee theft, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Use of e-mail and online ads by small business advertisers is poised to revisit pre-recession levels this holiday season, according to reports.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, will discuss the Administration's efforts to boost the small business sector to drive economic recovery at a National Press Club luncheon on Monday, December 14, 2009.
In a Nov. 29 story about efforts to help small businesses find information about Maine environmental laws and regulations, The Associated Press included an incorrect Web address for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. The correct Web address is http://www.mainedep.com
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Banks aren't lending very often these days, and minority business owners are having an especially hard time getting loans to expand or to simply get through hard times.
NEW YORK #8212; With the end of the year approaching, small-business owners should be scheduling meetings to help them plan for a hopefully stronger 2010.
Lenders have temporarily restructured hundreds of thousands of loans, but long-term changes have proved elusive, raising the specter of a new wave of foreclosures. In October 2008, JPMorgan Chase & Co. shaved 25% off Rick Mullen's mortgage payment by lowering his interest rate, helping him to stay in his Valencia home despite a downturn in his small business refurbishing large shipments of ...
A congressional committee will hear testimony in the Detroit area on how a lack of available lending for small businesses is impeding economic recovery efforts.
