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PeHub reports that Tony wanted to IPO, but Zappos's VC backer, Sequoia's Michael Moritz, craved liquidity and forced the sale. This jibes with a survey we reported that showed, more than anything else, VCs these days are "very worried about exits." Read More

Search engine giant Yahoo! may be selling its Yahoo! Small Business division as part of a move to divest itself of all services and products not related to its core operations. Yahoo! Small Business provides domain names, Web hosting, E-Commerce, E-mail and online marketing for small business. Reuters has the full story, but as an aside, this is a Read More

The U.S. Treasury Department is preparing to buy up small business loans from the Small Business Administration in an effort to get small business lending back on line. The Washington Post reported the federal government is preparing a $15 billion initiative to stimulate small business financing since private lending has been slow to rebound. For Read More

Ron Ameln, owner of the St. Louis Small Business Monthly, has a rather dire prediction for the impact of health care legislation currently being proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to Ron, the current health care legislation will kill small business by forcing companies with payroll reaching a certain level to either provide h Read More

Elance, a popular website used by freelancers around the world was hacked into this week. Read More

Small businesses are dangerously vulnerable to malicious cyber attackers that are capable of taking down e-commerce systems, and worse, stealing customer data. Cyber attackers have also been known to prey on smaller organizations to hijack their identity and commit fraudulent activities. Worse, some reports indicate social media and Twitter accoun Read More

James Chen, a venture capitalist and blogger at Pure VC, suggests that government should be run like a business, especially in economic hard times. Unfortunately, he says that both the state government in California and the U.S. federal government have chosen to do what businesses know is unwise, trying to raise revenue either to cover budget defi Read More

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BizBox discusses the fate of CIT, the small-business lender, and whether it should (and will) be bailed out by the federal government. Read More