Google is going hyper – and businesses are worried about it, according to BusinessWeek.Google is rolling out new "under-the-hood" search technology, codenamed "Caffeine," that coul…

Dave Goldman published a piece recently on the recession. He thinks he's a realist, I suspect. I see him as more of a pessimist. But he has some thought-provoking reasons for why he thinks the rec…

BusinessWeek had an article last week on Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke's promise to promote women.Seeking to counter Wal-Mart's image as a company that sells mostly to women yet is overwhelmingly run…

Lisa Barone over at Small Business Trends had a piece earlier this month on a webinar called "Just Start – Getting Your Business Started Right." And according to people running the webinar, …

I've been kind of distracted for a couple of weeks now with a variety of demands on my time that I somehow failed to see as converging all at once. I won't bore you with the details…

As I l…

The H Post is among a huge number of sources covering the sharp downturn of the Japanese economy.

If there was any doubt that this is a global recession, the economic news on Japan put an end to that…

So now there's a stimulus package pretty much in place. And whatever all the Right Wingers in the blogosphere may think about it, it's based at least partly on Keynesian economic theory. Will …

I said last week that I'd spent a fair amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle and that it's not an easy subject to unravel. One of the articles that puzz…

In recent weeks I have spent a considerable amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle. It's not an easy subject to unravel.

I've found a handful of interes…

First, the facts: Karen Gordon Mills has been nominated by President-elect Obama to lead the Small Business Administration. She has been a private equity investor since 1993. She was founding partner …