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Business boom ahead as London wins Olympic bid
[July 6, 2005] Following a tough campaign over the past 2 years, London managed to beat its rival, Paris in winning its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. A business boom is expected to follow

New site aims to beat online auction cheats
[June 30, 2005] A new web-based service launches this week that aims to combat the growing problem of online auction fraud.

Small businesses struggle with HR duties
[June 29, 2005] Small businesses are struggling to cope with the ever-increasing challenges of managing employees, according to a survey released today

eBay introduces "ProStores" to further boost sales
[June 28, 2005] Auction giant, eBay, has introduced a new product, Prostores, which will enable serious sellers to set up their own independent sites, but still process all their transactions via eBay systems (incuding Paypal).

Number of small business start ups falls
[June 27, 2005] After achieving record highs last year the number of small business start ups fell in the first quarter of 2005 from 129,500 in Q1 2004 to 116,300, according to data released by Barclays last week.

Teenage summer camps for would-be entrepreneurs
[June 27, 2005] Gordon Brown is backing a scheme to develop summer camps for budding teenage entrepreneurs, according to a report in The Guardian today.

How they deal with "Happy Slapping" in the USA!
[June 26, 2005] We received quite an unusual email response to a recent article "Businesses want resort yob crackdown", following the negative effect of thug behaviour on small businesses in coastal towns.

Where can you find decent staff these days?
[June 23, 2005] We received an email from a Bytestart visitor, who has found it almost impossible to find decent staff despite all her best efforts

Never Run Out of Cash
[June 22, 2005] Next month's edition of Reader's Digest contains a good article entitled "Extra Cash Now" - Your hobby + computer = money.

UK business letting ideas 'slip through fingers'
[June 22, 2005] Vodafone UK has called on British businesses to do more to encourage their staff to put forward innovative ideas.

EU "Sun Directive" branded absurd by pressure group
[June 21, 2005] A proposed EU directive which will force bosses to make daily risk assessments on the strength of the sun, is being branded unworkable and absurd by a leading business pressure group.

Small business survey reveals sectoral and regional growth disparity
[June 20, 2005] The biggest quarterly report of UK small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has revealed a striking variation in expectations of sales growth in 2005.

Carphone Warehouse targets small firms with cheaper calls
[June 16, 2005] Carphone Warehouse is expanding its fixed-line operations into the business market with the launch yesterday of TalkTalk Business.

Number of bosses who say "never again" doubles
[June 16, 2005] A staggering 41 per cent of company bosses say they would be unlikely to set up in business if the opportunity arose again.

Tax and Red Tape the top two small business concerns
[June 15, 2005] Government regulations and the total tax burden are now the top two problems facing Britain's small firms, according to the latest NatWest Quarterly Survey of Small Businesses.

Frustration as Government snubs reduced VAT scheme
[June 13, 2005] A leading business pressure group says the war against the shadow economy had been dealt a blow by the Government's continued refusal to run a pilot scheme for reduced VAT on labour intensive industries

IOD says interest rate "no change" is the right call.
[June 9, 2005] Today’s decision by the Bank of England to leave interest rates at 4.75% was the right one, the Institute of Directors have said.

Google launches the "Mini" for SME's
[June 9, 2005] Not content with running the world search engine market, and the upcoming roll-out of Gmail, Google has now launched the "Mini", a search appliance aimed at the small business market.

London has yet another new dialing code
[June 8, 2005] Despite having added or modified London's dialing codes three times already over the past 14 years, yet another code has been introduced as the capital runs out of telephone numbers.

Google becomes the biggest media company in the world
[June 8, 2005] An interesting piece in last night's Evening Standard shows that Google, the friend all small business websites depend on more than any other, is now the world's biggest media company.

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