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EU Commissioner wants to ease SMEs' red tape burden

Keeping the credit crunch wolves at bay

30 Sep 06:02

Marketing body condemns 'draconian' Olympic law

'Will squeeze small biz'

23 Sep 08:57

Cambridge tech boss rips gov over innovation cash

'We'll all be painted blue and dancing for tourists'

17 Sep 13:48

Freelancers might be taxed as employees after High Court ruling

IT contractor hit with £99,000 bill

10 Sep 12:51

Road warriors offered office in a suitcase

Crazy case contains printer, laptop stand, power

Reg Hardware 2 Sep 09:36

eBay changes anger smaller sellers

Goodbye Mom and Pop

21 Aug 12:15

Yelp 'pay to play' pitch makes shops scream for help

User generated discontent

13 Aug 16:55

eBay wins right to not police counterfeit goods

Tat seller wins rights to tat

13 Aug 12:13

Rude financial firms to pay, Ombudsman vows

Distress grounds for additional compensation

13 Aug 08:45

MessageLabs mulls float as economy sinks

Says Saas bucking market

11 Aug 11:46

Ubuntu gets into unified comms, chides Microsoft

Says new suite more sweet for SMBs

7 Aug 11:38

Sage brushes off credit crunch

Despite 'uncertain and challenging markets'

4 Aug 08:13

Treasury coughs £80m tax credit for R&D

Eagle pulls small biz up by scruff of its neck

1 Aug 10:51

IT career virgins need a cherry on top

Oversubscribed employers demand overqualified workers

31 Jul 10:02

Southeast London is card fraud cesspool

UK danger zones named

24 Jul 12:26

HMV lines up a few VAT-free CDs and DVDs

How not to cannibalise your sales

24 Jul 07:02

FT forgets law of small numbers in tech collapse scenario

No spike in titsupometer

23 Jul 12:38

RSA domain glitch derails UK online retailers

Unverified by Visa

22 Jul 11:54

eBay UK pimps users' privacy for targeted ads

Updated: When opt out means locked out

16 Jul 11:46

Judge sides with eBay in fake jewelry spat

Trademark at Tiffany's

14 Jul 19:10

Microsoft tells SMBs Vista isn't a risky business

You may end up dancing round the living room in pants

9 Jul 11:53

Lower VAT could help small businesses amid recession fears

Rates cut lifeline for small PC shops?

8 Jul 11:23

eBay Australia ditches PayPal scheme

Seller fury prompts backdown

4 Jul 11:26

eBay Australia faces PayPal fury

Aussies unconvinced by PayPal-only policy

2 Jul 11:18

Merchants call credit card industry's bluff on compliance

PCI DSS off the agenda

24 Jun 15:37

eBay calls for end to grey import laws

One bid to rule them all

24 Jun 12:45

Lenovo throws arms and legs around SMBs

Plans to dish up SL series to pump up sales

24 Jun 11:02

Network Solutions writes hypocrisy into press release

Master of its domain. And many others

21 Jun 16:56

eBayer slaps $714 price tag on $630 in cash

Will Microsoft pay the difference?

19 Jun 18:53

Bosch, Siemens: Vorsprung durch kinder und technik

Blighty giggles, says 'I've always been hopeless at sums'

17 Jun 09:47

Business failures to rocket as growth nosedives

Tech sector to the rescue?

16 Jun 11:00

PayPal ambushes users with mystery Skype charges

Glitch or breach?

13 Jun 07:02

Labour isn't working for IT contractors

Leave my heap of cash alone

9 Jun 12:20

Metadata ruins Google's anonymous eBay Australia protest

Should have used Google Docs

30 May 19:45

French police bust 22 youths in alleged hacking network

The French Connection

Channel Register 29 May 19:14

Dell guilty of defrauding New York customers

Likely to appeal false advertising ruling

27 May 23:02

Paypal glitch hits merchants with 12-day headache

Software update gone bad

Channel Register 27 May 21:05

Garage sale genius juices software-hawking eBayers

Judge ignores Autodesk

Channel Register 23 May 04:49

Temp workers to get equal rights after 12 weeks

Employers' groups and small biz world up in arms

21 May 09:06

Royal Bank of Scotland takes three weeks to squash nasty Worldpay bug

Updated Amateur security sleuth spurned

Channel Register 20 May 19:51

PayPal meltdown wreaks havoc on some ecommerce websites

'Bring me the head of the IPN admins!'

17 May 18:35

Amazon smacks little people with BookSurge

On-demand Battle of the Bulge

31 Mar 21:29

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