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Getting Your Money's Worth

Pay-for-placement deals can help remove some of the mystery from your company's PR bills. Here's a sampling of charges from PayPerClip, a performance-based P...  Read more

Browser Beware

Before you rely on an online ratings service, get to know the source -- and how it makes money.  Read more

Browser Beware

Before you rely on an online ratings service, get to know the source -- and how it makes money.  Read more

Handling Your Handheld

Our CEOs sample Web sites that sell software for personal digital assistants. Here's what they found, what they liked, and what they found lacking.  Read more

Handling Your Handheld

Our CEOs sample Web sites that sell software for personal digital assistants. Here's what they found, what they liked, and what they found lacking.  Read more

Business Question Answer Site Launches

New start-up Bizmore aspires to be the Yahoo! Answers for SMBs.  Read more

Green Investing, Email Tips, and Tapping Credit Unions

Introducing the U.S. Department of Green Investing. As CNET Read more

Find the Right On-Site Search Engine

Do your homework to find a search engine that's right for your needs. You'll have to evaluate different search options, from downloading freeware to havin...  Read more

Find the Right On-Site Search Engine

Do your homework to find a search engine that's right for your needs. You'll have to evaluate different search options, from downloading freeware to havin...  Read more

Making Cell Phone Usage Pay Off

Relying on employees to have their own mobile devices and plans, and letting them expense their business usage, can be expensive. To avoid the high costs, bu...  Read more

The Best Netbook For Under $400

I recently received the following email: I want to buy a netbook for $400 or less. Any advice? —M.C. The netbook ca...  Read more

Track Your Press Coverage

Various methods you can use to track what's written about your company.  Read more

IPO Fever is Spreading; New Small Biz Plastic

The flood gates open for new IPO's. With five venture-backed companies set to go public this week, the most the market has seen in about two years,...  Read more

How to Tweet and Mark Cuban Gets Body-Slammed

How to use Twitter profitably. David Spinks of Mashable has comp...  Read more

Stay Safe, Stay In Touch

A toymaker ponders product liability. Plus, how to bolster customer interaction online.  Read more

How to Choose Business Accounting Software

From QuickBooks to NetSuite, there's plenty of accounting software out there to choose from. Here's how to pick the best one to serve your company's needs.  Read more

The Death Star, as apt metaphor for your network

While viruses and spam are normally the most dreaded calamities to befall a company's network, starting yesterday an unlikely threat emerged: George Lucas...  Read more

Is Google Being Evil?

Google blows up another nascent business . So-called URL shorteners--which make it easy to link to websites on Twitter--have seemed like a promising...  Read more

Improving Vista's Performance

My parents recently replaced one of their four-year-old computers with a new Acer laptop that runs Vista. But they only got 1GB of RAM on the new machine ...  Read more

Dell Adamo: The Early Reviews

The most buzzed-about laptop of the year was finally "officially" announced this week: Dell's addition to the ultra-portable, ultra-stylish laptop categor...  Read more

Free Marketing Advice from the Pros

Start-up lessons from Google Buzz . When it was first launched, business pundits crowed about the brilliance of Google Buzz. Jason Calacanis Read more

How I Did It: Omniture's Josh James

He built a Web analytics company into a powerhouse, then sold it to Adobe for $1.8 billion.  Read more

IM Product Sampler

A list of free and commercial-grade IM products.  Read more

The Ultimate “Bargain” Bin of Software

Freeware sounds like a deal to small businesses that are stretching IT dollars. But before downloading anything marked "free" consider the security implicati...  Read more

Your Message Here

Placing banner ads on Web sites used to be for big businesses with huge advertising budgets. Now that companies like SmartAge promote free banner exchanges, ...  Read more

IM Shorthand -- Kewl

Instant Messaging has become a key way that people communicate in business. But you need to talk the talk.  Read more

The Obama Plan; How to be a Leader

Becoming a great leader in 101 easy steps. Vincent Van Gogh once said, "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Along ...  Read more

Orthodox Entrepreneurs; Vice Industries Feel the Pain

Zipcar Goes IPO . Zipcar, the car sharing service based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is going public next year, according to Read more

Canning Spam

There's good news and bad about what companies can do to stem the tide of spam.  Read more

Where to Buy Computers

Finding a bargain on computers and equipment for the office means knowing the ins and outs of online and offline retailers.  Read more

HedgeStop Wants to be the MySpace of the Financial Community

Now it needs $2.5 million.  Read more

Who turned out the lights?

Some of the most interesting spot coverage on the blackout in the Northeast can be found on Read more

Weighing Connectivity Options

Cost isn't the only consideration when choosing how to connect to the Internet. Here's some advice on what business owners should think about besides price.  Read more

Seven Ways to Improve the Palm Pre's Battery Life

Like the iPhone, the Pre has a notably short battery life. But there are a few ways to boost it. Read more

Online Shoppers Allege Holiday Shopping Scam

The Seattle Times has a sobering story today about a seller operat...  Read more

Prepare Your Site for Going Global

For many companies, localization is an afterthought. Whenever I inquire of people in the information technology and/or e-commerce industries whether they ...  Read more

If You Build It, Can They Find It?

Imagine trying to hit a pin-sized target in a pitch-black auditorium. Or looking for a quarter-carat diamond hidden someplace in Yosemite National Park. O...  Read more

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Top Sites for Tech Buying

A panel of entrepreneurs searches for the best online spots to shop for computers, peripherals, and networking hardware.  Read more

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