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Passion and momentum build when skilled employees have access to great tools and the time to stretch them in new directions. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google, discusses the groundbreaking company practice of setting aside 20 percent of an employee's time for creative projects. By her own assessment, nea Read More

When Suranga Chandratillake created video search engine blinkx he surely can't have imagined that four years later the business would be listed on the London Stock Exchange and posting a $4.5m (£2.85m) gross profit for the first six months to September 2008. The 106% gross profit increase on the previous half-year is a sign that blinkx is set Read More

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Tiffinbites founder Jamal Hirani, bored by the daily choice of sandwiches, fast food, pasta or pizzas fantasised about being able to eat his mothers excellent healthy, home cooked tasty Indian food, made with choice ingredients and freshly ground spices. Read More

From humble beginnings, Lonely Planet Publications has grown into one of biggest guidebook companies in the world and one of the most recognisable brands in travel. On the eve of the book documenting the rise and rise of the formerly shoestring orientated book company, Tony Wheeler tells cmypitch.com how he and wife Maureen grew the company fro Read More

Ker-ching! £250m in a day. That's what taking a 'Benylin Day' — as was suggested so much on the radio yesterday — is costing Britain's economy today, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in an article published in the Daily Telegraph today. Read More

Sir David Tang, the founder of luxury clothing company Shanghai Tang is well aware of what's going on in the economy. The entrepreneur has delivered a New Year message via the BBC, to highlight the need for the return of optimism. For months claims that the media was talking the country into a recession abounded. Read More

Do you own, work for or run an SME? The SME community provides useful resources and tools to help you grow and maintain your business. Check out the information centres, forums and event listings and consider pitching for services you need. Read More

The good news, he tells us, is there is a remedy for the hormone imbalance — in which proteins are being robbed from his body — and treatment has begun. Read More

Will it, or won't it? Will 2009 be as bad for business as most commentators would have us believe, or are businesses paying far too much heed to an over-zealous media for whom the trend of negative reporting grew stronger as 2008 wore on? Read More