Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree

One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.…

'Fibre-to-the-premise on demand' in 2013

BT is talking up plans to bring its ultra-fast fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network to more of its customers in early 2013.…

ASA raps largest travel site for ... not telling the truth on the interwebs

Online travel review site TripAdvisor has been forced to admit that not all of the reviews posted on its site are trustworthy or real.…

Murdoch, charity also face write-offs as digital music outfit goes bust

It isn't just scofflaw copyright criminals who cause grief for the music business. Sometimes it's quite capable of lining up its own feet for a shooting party.…

Site unable to 'substantiate' serpent serum claims - ASA

Groupon has been rapped for selling snake oil after the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that the online deals giant couldn't substantiate their claims about the reptile juice.…

Commissioner wants to stop biz making cash off others' slog

A revised EU anti-piracy laws will provide content creators with "solid legal certainty" when developing new ways for consumers to legitimately access their works, an EU Commissioner working on the legislation has said.…

Tells small biz world to join social network army

The UK economy might be down in the dumps, but there is a ray of sunshine from an unlikely source: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has supposedly helped to contribute £2.2bn to the country's GDP in 2011.…

Trick cyclists in fridge-carton tomfoolishness

Time-rich trick cyclists in Singapore and America have determined to their own satisfaction that it is actually much more difficult to think outside the box if you are, in reality, inside a large box at the time.…

Bought-up securo biz and social site make tweet love

Twitter has acquired anti-malware startup Dasient. Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.…

UK software giant keeps numbers up despite 'challenging environment'

Sage the British software juggernaut said that its trading results had held up since 1 October, despite the strain on its core customer base in small businesses.…

Cyber-outbreak defence tech to shore up big biz

Sourcefire, the security biz behind the commercial versions of the open-source Snort intrusion-detection software, is bowling itself at enterprises and touting tech designed to quickly detect and block malware outbreaks.…

Bill passes through Commons

A private member's bill that will make the promotion and performance of live music in small venues easier was passed by the Commons on Friday, which means it's now almost certain to become law.…

Is small biz priced out of the market?

Despite what in the final months seemed to be stiff competition, ICANN went ahead with its new generic domain names, letting companies register .whatevertheycanthinkof from 12 January.…

Colour us red, white and blue, says top Euro biz

Europe's second largest software company, Software AG, is reorganising in the US with a huge focus on the West Coast around big-data purchase Terracotta.…

Major outage knocks out punters' connections

BT suffered what it described as a "major business broadband problem" today, which kicked off at about 07.25 GMT.…

Read all about it - or not once Summify is fully enveloped

Twitter has bought news-hungry Canadian startup Summify for an undisclosed sum. The upstart biz, which developed a mobile app that automatically rifles through articles being shared across social networks and gathers them together, will up sticks to Twitter's San Francisco office.…

Says soz to Kenyan startup

Google issued an apology to Mocality late on Friday after the startup's CEO uncovered evidence that employees working for Mountain View had lied about their biz relationship with the Kenyan biz.…

Google smacks back: Mocality's data was 'publicly available'

Google has been accused of "fraudulently" accessing a rival Kenya-based business listings database and then attempting to sell the internet giant's competing GKBO product to that customerbase.…

Promises to 'roll over' lapsing policies after outage

Aviva's British insurance customers were left battling to get through to a jammed helpline after the company's IT services suffered a five-hour outage that left its web services dangling.…

Big biz software is where all the cool kids are at

Open ... and Shut  It's not that enterprise software is boring. But let's face it: if you had the choice to tell your mom that your company makes it easy for 800 million people to talk to each other, or that your business makes it easier for companies like Chevron to do business more productively, the former is going to sound a heck of a lot cooler.…