Small Business

There’s never been a better time to be a small business owner looking to market your business. The number of tools available to marketers is dizzying. Best of all, most of them are inexpensive. Here are five marketing technologies we think every small business could benefit from.

Video marketing can take up a lot of time and resources – but it could pay off in the end. Find out how one company’s viral videos led to thousands of sales.

Z-Burger founder Peter Tabibian says the restaurant is serving free burgers each day during the shutdown to all furloughed government officials in the Washington D.C. area from 11:00-1:00 pm and 5:00-7:00 pm.

The Internet will attract 21% more ad spending each year on its way to gobbling 22.1% of the total market by 2014, according to latest ZenithOptimedia projections.

Enterprise cloud computer Salesforce.com has inked a deal to buy Buddy Media, which helps brands manage their social media programs, for $689 million.

ComScore has released its search data for February 2012.  None of the numbers are all that remarkable, which, when you think about the changes Google recently introduced to its core product involving the fusion of social and search, is actually somewhat remarkable.

Information whizzes around Twitter at breakneck speeds. And securities swindlers are taking advantage of the tumult.

KannaLife Sciences CEO Dean Petkanas expects the federal government to pave the way for medical marijuana within two years, he told Varney & Co.

A manufacturer of sapphire glass that Apple Inc. uses in iPhones plans to eliminate 727 jobs at an Arizona plant.

A sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms is providing a rare peek into the elite investment companies vying to fund the next Google and Amazon.

The woman at the center of a sex discrimination lawsuit against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms is set to take the stand in a case that has focused attention on the treatment of women in the high-tech and venture capital fields.

A sex discrimination trial that has put a spotlight on gender imbalance in Silicon Valley has prompted some technology and venture capital companies to re-examine their cultures and practices — even before a jury reaches its verdict.

A high-profile sex bias case captivating Silicon Valley has sparked debate over the treatment of women in the high technology and venture capitalist arenas.

Lawyers have started picking a jury to determine whether a venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firm is guilty of gender discrimination or the victim of a scorned former employee forced out because of poor performance.

The woman suing a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm for alleged gender discrimination accepted a generous severance package that gave her a salary, access to her company email and kept her biography on the company website.

Ellen Pao has testified again in her lawsuit claiming gender bias kept her from advancing at a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm and that she was fired after she complained.

A discrimination lawsuit that put a spotlight on gender balance and working conditions for women at Silicon Valley firms ended with a jury rejecting the female plaintiff's claims.

Starting this week, JP Morgan Chase customers visiting ATMs in New York and Los Angeles will be greeted by messages of gender equality, as the U.S. bank teams up with UN Women to drive awareness of the HeForShe solidarity initiative.

Microsoft announced Thursday that it will cut up to 18,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its staff.

Google launched a new equity fund on Wednesday designed to help later-stage startups just as they reach their critical growth phase.