Small businesses are responding to lenders’ criticisms that they are not submitting proper management accounts by providing better financial information establishing they are creditworthy concerns. fpb.org – Latest news articles from the FPBRead More

Groupon’s smashing success has spawned hundreds of clones and, given its relatively simple technology and the absence of entry barriers, buoyed those imitators that they too may strike it rich in social commerce. Wildfire Promotion Builder comes at it from a different angle. Rather than wrangle with the behemoth head-on, the start-up sees itself as a complement that...Read More

Small businesses have blasted the levels of customer service provided by utilities companies, new research from the Forum of Private Business has revealed. fpb.org – Latest news articles from the FPBRead More

Skype has an interesting business model. The wildly popular internet phone and video service lets people call other Skype users for free, and pay a small fee to dial terrestrial phones. But if everyone started using Skype, the company could put itself out of business. Before that happens, Skype is trying to increase its advertising...Read More

As consumer product brands explore digital, connecting real life products to interactive elements online has become increasingly important. One startup in contention to do just that is Stickybits. Stickybits lets people connect barcodes with any piece of digital information they can create. When the company launched at SXSW in February, the technology was in place,...Read More