Amidst a flurry of networking mergers and acquisitions, U.S. and Canadian regulatory agencies have signed off on the $900 million acquisition of Nortel's enterprise solutions unit.Full Article

In general, the best choices for debt negotiation and settlement are unsecured loans and credit cards. Since there is no collateral that can be attached to satisfy the debt, creditors are more likely to negotiate to avoid writing off the entire ...

Bad news first: Veteran entrepreneurship, like a lot of things these days, is at a historical low. Fifteen years ago, about 20 percent of small businesses were veteran-owned; today, that number is only about 12 percent. In an effort to increase ...

The Small Business Administration recently released lender guidelines for Americas Recovery Capital (ARC) Loan Program. While the program was announced back in May, thousands of small-business owners have been pouring into banks seeking information ...

Twitter, the social media micro-blogging service, just received $100 million innew fundingfrom T. Rowe Price and New York's Insight Venture Partners, according to recent reports.Its a staggering amount when you think of Twitters modest beginning as ...

FinancialForce.com, a startup providing financial and accounting software as a service, is getting a minority investment and on-campus office space from Salesforce.com. Will it be a new alternative for SMBs?Full Article

When I started my current business six years ago, I didn't anticipate the complexity and sheer amount of paperwork that would result in such a short time.During those six years, we've deliberately maintained a low overhead and outsourced every ...

For decades, credit cards have provided (for good or bad) a source of working capital for households and entrepreneurs. Those easy to obtain credit line increases proved a lifeline for small businesses and were much easier than dealing with a bank, ...

On June 15, banks began taking applications for the America's Recovery Capital loan program. The ARC loan is a $35,000, interest-free, deferred-payment loan, fully guaranteed by the Small Business Administration and available to established, viable, ...

Despite what youve heard, banks are still giving business loans. Recently, the SBA increased its loan guarantees, which is encouraging banks to lend more. But be warned: Managers are playing strictly by the rules now, says Charles H. Green, ...

In these tough economic times, cash is king. When you run out of cash, you're out of business. You can't control what's happening in the economy, but you can make sure your business survives by aggressively managing your cash flow.There are three ...