Small Business News

Flushing kicked off this year's Summer Festival Wednesday night, and small businesses are looking forward to a big boost.

With land values in places such as South Dakota up more than 50 percent, and the prospect of 2,400 family farms and 2,700 small businesses being hit by one more tax at the end of life, lawmakers gathered Wednesday afternoon in the Capitol Visitor Center to talk about the prospects for the repeal of the death tax.

Henry Studholme, owner Prime Foods NZ based in Hororata began production from a new joint venture plant in the Philippines two years ago from where it now exports Prime Foods NZ began in 1994 and is based in Hororata.

This is part of the " Moving Forward " series offering advice to small business owners on technology, mentorship, productivity, and growth.

When suffering a cyber attack, small businesses lack the resources of a larger company and face different challenges.

When Lawrence Scheer began selling baby clothes in 2010, he didn't realize it then, but he was on the leading edge of a recovery in small business exports.

In rural America, the local community drives the rural economy. Money spent and invested locally rolls through a community and generates even more economic benefits.

New health insurance exchanges being set up by the federal government in more than 30 states under President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul could miss an October 1 deadline for open enrollment, a government report said on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House, May 10, 2013.

Google's plans to beam the Internet from giant balloons sent to the stratosphere could boost small businesses in rural parts of Asia by connecting them online, the company said on Wednesday.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Value Added Agriculture Development Center in Pierre will receive $99,950 to help establish a small business in Shannon County.

Florida retailers are calling out U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Ponte Vedra Beach, for opposing legislation that would require online retailers to pay state sales tax.

U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte are teaming up to help small businesses make the most of their export opportunities.

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth.

Small business owners would enjoy the same credit card protections that consumers have under legislation proposed by Rep. Nita Lowey on Tuesday.

The United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, led by Chair Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today passed key small business access to capital and disaster recovery bills.

Months after customers blasted the company for skyrocketing rates, Iowa's dominant health insurer says it will limit premium increases in 2014 to less than six percent for individual and small business policyholders.

Yesterday, at The Gravity Vault in Chatham, they stood tall as they were named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the group's 2013 New Jersey Small Business Persons of the Year.

It's harder to run a small business today than it was five years ago, according to most respondents in a new survey from Constant Contact, Inc. Hundreds of owners admitted operations are a bigger struggle these days.

As a former Senior Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce and Founder of global business development firm the Wade Group, Rick C. Wade is uniquely positioned to advise small business on how to become members of the global marketplace.