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bMighty News Flash: Friday March 6, 2009

SMB news: HP SMB products, Twitter ads, Firefox patch, BlackBerry app store, Facebook redesign, Windows patch, WiMax expansion, job losses, small biz retirement plans, $28b SBA loans, turn off IE8, Google AdSense takes 3rd-party ads, Windows Mobile speed, OpenSUSE releases, botnet criminal sentenced...

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