bMighty News Flash: Thursday March 12, 2009

Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs profitable, Google Voice, SMBs recover first, HP-USA.NET collaboration, telecommunting, eBay retrenches, Amazon price cut, retail sales numbers, new FB homepage, Hulu social network, word of mouth ad impressions, Google search share, Plaxo features, FB referall leader...

BUSINESS & E-BUSINESS

Survey finds 69% of U.S. small businesses profitable last year

Proposed funding for SBA rises to $547 million

Forrester: SMBs will bounce back from the recession before large enterprises

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants challenges governments to invest in small businesses as much as large, publically-traded corporations

Study projects American businesess could save $260 billion annually by telecommutting

eBay announces new 3-year plan with focus on secondary channels

U.S. retail sales decline 0.1% in February, less than expected; non-auto sales increases 0.7%

NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS

Google relaunches GrandCentral as Google Voice with new SMS and Web-based inbox features

SERVICES

New Facebook homepage emphasizes content sharing and conversation

Facebook beats Google on referrals for some sites

Google's search share increases 8% to 72% of all U.S.-based search queries in February

HP partners with USA.NET for hosted e-mail, messaging, and collaboration services targetting SMBs

Plaxo Pulse adds commenting and sharing features

NBC's video-on-demand service, Hulu, adds social network

SocialMedia introduces "word of mouth" advertising impressions for social network ad campaigns

Amazon Web Services announces new pricing structure for Amazon EC2

Social investing site KaChing gives developers access to API

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