Topics: Advertising, Entrepreneur
Go Daddy has built a name for itself as the place to buy domain names with its risque Super Bowl ads. But could it land in Jeff Bezos's shopping cart?
The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based domain-name registrar has put itself up for sale, reports the Wall Street Journal, at a price that could top $1 billion. Qatalyst Partners, run by Frank Quattrone, the famous Silicon Valley investment banker, is handling the auction.
Private-equity firms, which have purchased other domain-name companies for their reliable cash flows, are obvious bidders. But a tech observer has a different buyer in mind: Amazon.com.
At first, it…
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Topics: Insurance, Small Business
Before most of the health insurance reforms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) take effect in 2014, the tax credits already in effect for small firms that offer insurance will do little more than slow the erosion of coverage. But in the long run, if the state health insurance exchanges work properly, the savings for small companies and individuals may be much greater than expected. That's the take-home message of a new report from the Commonwealth Fundand an earlier paper that examined the impact of the ACA on the growth of health spending and insurance premiums.
About 16.6 million people…
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Topics: Small Business
A Senate proposal to repeal new tax-reporting rules opposed by small businesses is "not acceptable in its current form," a Treasury Department official said.
The Senate is set to take a procedural vote Tuesday on a proposal from Sen. Mike Johanns (R., Neb.) to repeal the information-reporting rules. Enacted as part of health care-overhaul legislation, the rules would require businesses to report to the IRS payments to suppliers that exceed $600 in a single year.
Mr. Johanns offered the repeal proposal as an amendment to a small-business-lending bill pending in the Senate. The amendment will require 60 votes to overcome…
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Topics: Consultant, Management, Marketing, Networking, Sales
Rarely have I been as excited about the huge trends we're seeing in technology as I am right now. Billion-dollar businesses are being created and destroyed. And the best place to get into the thick of things is DEMO Fall 2010, right here in Silicon Valley, next Monday through Wednesday, September 13-15.
We're going to see nearly 70 companies launching new products on stage. They're shaking up industries from dating to healthcare to real estate and consumer electronics. And speakers from industry titans and upstarts will share their views of the battlefield. You're not going to want to miss this…
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Topics: Entrepreneur
Mark Henricks' reporting on business and other topics has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Inc., Entrepreneur, and many other leading publications. He lives in Austin, Texas, where myth looms as large as it does anywhere.
But is it true? Strictly speaking, no. America is one of the lands of entrepreneurship, but it's far from being the globe's leading light in that category. Denmark wins that title, followed by Canada in second place, according to a report released this month, "Global Entrepreneurship and the United States," paid for by the U.S. Small Business…
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Topics: Credit, Small Business, Twitter
What's new at
Square
, the buzzy mobile payments startup cofounded by Twitter creator
Jack Dorsey
? (The company that sends out
little plastic credit card readers that you can use on an iPhone
, iPad, or other mobile device to
accept credit card payments
.)
Square CEO Dorsey tells us the company has ramped up production of its little credit card readers to 10,000 per day. It just redesigned the reader to be compatible with Apple's iPhone 4 -- the previous edition interfered with the iPhone 4's external antenna -- and will start shipping out the new ones soon.…
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