28 posts and columns on small business
Lexity: We’re Not Just Another Folded-In Yahoo “Acqhire”
Lexity, which was bought by Yahoo 10 days ago, has already made its real-time e-commerce dashboard available for Yahoo merchants.HP and Google Team Up to Offer Small Businesses “IT in a Box”
But it has nothing at all to do with Microsoft, really.TaskRabbit Would Like to Be Your New Temp Agency
TaskRabbit says it will have lower fees and much more transparency than a traditional temp agency.On Deck Raises $42 Million to Provide Online Loans to Local Businesses
Institutional Venture Partners led the round, with RRE Ventures, SAP Ventures and First Round Capital also participating.News Byte
Facebook Continues Testing Free Wi-Fi With Cafe Partners
Facebook is in the midst of a small program with a handful of cafes in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas. In the program, first noticed by Inside Facebook, Facebook provides its partner cafes with free routers, and customers check in to the business on Facebook in order to access the Internet. The service is being tested inside Philz Coffee in San Francisco, according to Hunter Walk, as well as a handful of Palo Alto cafes.Former Yahoo Exec Blake Irving Named CEO of Domain Giant Go Daddy
Another new leader for the Web registration giant.Voices
Google to Rein In Free Version of Software
Google Inc. said it stopped offering its suite of Web-based software for businesses — known as Google Apps — free of charge to groups of 10 or fewer users, as it moves to generate revenue from previously free services.News Byte
MindBody Banks $35 Million for Small-Biz SaaS
MindBody raised $35 million in venture funding, the company announced Thursday morning, in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Catalyst Investors and Bessemer Venture Partners, two existing investors in the company, also participated in the round. Founded in 2001, MindBody sells client management software to health and wellness industry clients, serving 20,000 clients across more than 80 countries. The company has raised upward of $23 million to date.Voices