More small businesses use Twitter, Facebook to promote
By Jon Swartz, USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO — A surge in social-media use by small businesses reflects a shift in how they operate and their comfort with increasingly easy-to-use technology.
In growing numbers, small-business owners are adopting social-networking services, location-based services, Twitter and online video to promote products and services, according to a new study by MerchantCircle, a social network for small businesses. It polled › Continue reading
Facebook? Social networker could ignite IPO market in 2010
By Erin Conroy, AP Business WriterNEW YORK — The pipeline of initial public offerings for 2010 looks promising as private equity firms look to cash in on their investments after coming back to the nearly defunct market in the fall.
Online networking companies may take center stage. So far, the company generating the most buzz hasn’t even filed for an IPO: social networking site Facebook, which has many betting its creation of a dual-class › Continue reading