Services Tailor Apps for Small Businesses (Programs Are Seen as Good Marketing Tools for Regular Customers, but Less Useful in Attracting New Clients)

Barbara Heinrich says she isn’t computer-savvy, but last month the owner of Local Motion, a clothing boutique in Minneapolis, went online and built her own mobile-phone application. It was worth a try, she figured, considering how cheap and easy it was to do and how addicted to iPhone apps young people like her daughter were. [...]

Home-Energy Plan Spreads Out Costs

BABYLON, N.Y. — Town employees have fanned out across this Long Island suburb this summer, armed with free water bottles and beer cozies and a simple pitch: going green can save green, especially with low-interest financing from the town. Empowered by recent changes to local, state and federal laws, municipal governments from Long Island to [...]

An Internship From Your Couch (Working at Home Opportunities)

Virtual internships, while relatively rare, are becoming more common, career experts say, fueled by improving technology and the growth of social media. They are most popular among small to midsize companies and online businesses. More than one-fourth of 150 internships posted on UrbanInterns.com, a site that connects small businesses with part-time workers, are labeled virtual, [...]

Recovery Act Announcement: DOE to Invest $18 Million in Small Business Clean Energy Innovation Projects

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $18 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support small business innovation research, development, and deployment of clean energy technologies. In this first phase of funding, 125 grants of up to $150,000 each will be awarded to 107 small advanced technology firms [...]

Two Kentucky High-Tech Companies Awarded Funding for Expansions

FRANKFORT, Ky. ‘ The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) awarded two high-tech Kentucky companies, Louisville Bioscience, Inc., and Laboratory and BioDiagnostics, LLC, (LabDx), state funding. The companies are anticipated to create a combined 36 new high-tech jobs at an average annual salary of over $64,000. (Manafacturing & Techonology eJournal, October 29, 2009) Read More

Small Business Gets Breaks in House Financial-Overhaul Bill

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are adding sweeping exemptions to financial-regulation legislation that would benefit small businesses, a move that is irking some consumer groups and liberal lawmakers who contend that could compromise the effectiveness of the overhaul. Bills currently under consideration in the House exclude thousands of community banks from oversight by the proposed Consumer Financial [...]

Glasgow Kentucky’s Dana Commercial Vehicle Looking To Invest Millions in Upgrades

Dana is proposing a project consisting of technology upgrades, including automation and robotics, transitioning from antiquated equipment with an anticipated project investment of $6,697,500. This project would consolidate out-of-state operations into the Glasgow facility. The company anticipates retaining the existing 217 current fulltime jobs paying average hourly wages of $19.85, excluding benefits and creating an [...]

Kentucky Governor Beshear Signs Landmark Business Incentives Bill

Owensboro, Kentucky — Accompanied by community and business leaders in Owensboro, Gov. Steve Beshear took part in a bill signing for House Bill 3, which includes new and expanded business incentive programs to encourage job growth and capital investment in Kentucky. The Incentives for a New Kentucky bill, sponsored by Rep. Tommy Thompson of Owensboro, [...]

President Obama to Raise SBA Loan Limits

President Announces Support from Treasury for Smaller Community Lenders Committed to Increasing Lending to Small Businesses WASHINGTON ‘ The U.S. Small Business Administration has issued the following statement by SBA Administrator Karen Mills on President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the maximum loan size for SBA-backed loans to small business: “Nine months ago, President Obama [...]

Federal Grants for Small Businesses Only

If you know of anyone with an idea for a new innovation, or new use for existing innovation in any of these topics/subtopics, they can apply for a Phase I SBIR grant. Details: The proposal is due January 14, 2010. In order to apply, the applicant must be a small U.S. business by the time [...]