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Friday, September 18, 2009 12:09 PM

2009 National Enterprise Awards winners

Best Website, Combating Worklessness, Customer Focus, Innovation and Unsung Hero were among the awards announced by the NFEA (National Enterprise Network) earlier this week. Winners were chosen by an external judging panel, including Ann Carter Gray,
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Monday, September 14, 2009 2:30 PM

Microsoft UK launches 'Britain Works'

Recognising that business needs to do all it can to help people during this recession, Microsoft UK has launched a campaign to help 500,000 people into work by 2012. Through a combination of a new national apprenticeship scheme, targeted skills and employability
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:47 PM

Swine flu warning to businesses

Without wishing to be in any way alarmist, swine flu is creeping its way across the country and, according to a story on the BBC website , the Federation of Small Businesses is warning that too few companies are making contingency plans against its spread.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 2:04 PM

Women in science and technology

It's no secret that there is a shortage of female employees in the fields of science, maths and engineering - despite the fact that apparently more girls than boys achieve the top grades in subjects in school. Last year five times more men than women
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Monday, February 16, 2009 10:12 AM

Quick ‘Fix it'

I'm trying to get in a joke here about Jim'll Fix It but struggling, so I've given up and will play this one straight. To help Windows and PC users, Microsoft is trying out the idea of a ‘ Fix it ' button on web-based support pages, detailing the most
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Monday, January 12, 2009 9:31 AM

Free financial advice for small businesses

A useful survival tip for 2009 is to take advantage of any free resources offered to small businesses. One of these is the news feed on the Small Business Centre homepage, which is updated daily and has topical, relevant news that can help your business.
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Monday, December 22, 2008 11:22 AM

Jump out of the recession and into a franchise

The Small Business Centre news feed picked up a story on franchising last week - ‘ Franchising can help grow a business '. Writing for Business Week, contributing editor Sarah Max suggested that franchising can be good way to expand because other entrepreneurs
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:11 PM

Microsoft BizSpark software for start-ups

Word has reached Small Business blog that, according to some press articles, Microsoft is apparently offering free software to start-ups. Not surprisingly, there have been a few phone calls from small businesses asking how they can get their hands on
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Monday, October 06, 2008 9:45 AM

SME News Feed

We've had a daily news feed on the Small Business website for a while now, and it's proving a quick and easy way of keeping up-to-date with SME news. We've developed this resource so you can now view the whole news archive , not just the previous few
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