Stuff: Hellaby Holdings is pursuing two or three possible acquisitions as it looks to make use of a growing pile of cash. The Auckland-based→

News Yahoo: Franchises continue to be the fastest-growing category of owner-operated businesses, and franchise development companies are scouting franchises more carefully than ever, before→

Biz Journals: The president of Max & Erma’s Restaurants Inc. has decided to remain with the restaurant chain rather than take a real estate→

Business Iafrica: Quick service restaurant food group Famous Brands has said that maintaining compounds growth at current levels would be ‘challenging’, after reporting a→

Wired: All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now the productive→

Startup Journal: When he persuaded a Wal-Mart buyer to give his unusual pen a test run some 18 months ago, Colin Roche thought the→

David Beisel: In the limited subset of entrepreneurs pitching an early-stage venture firm in the Boston area, it seems that there is an inverse→

Arizona Republic:  Spoof. It rhymes with poof. And for Kris Kwan, the result was the same. He was the victim of a spoof e-mail→

 kutv: Tahitian Noni International, which makes drinks and beauty and nutritional products from the South Pacific’s noni fruit, has laid off 130 workers in→

auctionbytes:  Global Sources Ltd. and HC International Inc. announced plans to form what it calls China’s largest B2B strategic alliance. HC International is a→

Biz Journals: Mary Forte is an African American woman who wanted to make a difference in her community. She opened a franchised coffee house,→

inq7: In 1998, the Journal of Medicinal Foods studied and evaluated liquid vitamins and minerals and found them effective in health management. In 2002,→

heise online:  According to a report in the US daily New York Post, Microsoft is thinking hard about taking over the online auction eBay.→

wcbs:  Outdoor cooking gets a whole lot easier and more fun with the latest in gadgets for your next barbeque. Basting over a hot→

indychannel:  A woman who was embroiled in a billing dispute with auction giant eBay hopes her story will get people to think twice about→

Cupofmoney.com is so confident in their new anti-aging healthy coffee and anti-aging healthy tea, that the company is giving away a total of 1→

auctionbytes:  Infopia has integrated its eBay management solution Marketplace Manager V 6.2 with Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. The beta release will allow eBay sellers to expand→

mlm.big-web:  Here is my question: Is there Blockage in your MLM Success Fuel line? Many a Direct Sales and Home Business are ‘missingâ€? badly,→

Msnbc: Though the number of medical spas in the Jacksonville area has doubled in the past couple of years, that trend would likely slow→

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: Got that entrepreneurial spirit? You aren’t alone. In fact, two out of three teen-agers who completed last year’s Junior Achievement “Interprise”→