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How social media helped foil an Arizona school shooting plot

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Yahoo News reports on how a YouTube.com viewer saw a threatening post from a 16-year old girl talking about shooting classmates and killing herself at Red Mountain High School in Mesa. The Canadian owner of the YouTube transgender channel where …See …

Fort Worth Chamber names Small Business of Year finalists

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The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce has named 12 Tarrant County businesses as finalists for the chamber's Small Business of the Year Awards. The awards are presented by Community Bank and business owners and representatives will be honored at a …S…

Slideshow: Business Journal Small Business Expo – Philadelphia Business

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The Philadelphia Business Journal held its annual Small Business Expo Dec. 11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The event featured appearances by Jenn Lim, CEO and chief happiness officer of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony …See…

New York makes push to support small business after Sandy

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The program, called Support NYC Small Business, has a web site where business owners can indicate they have reopened, and where shoppers can use an interactive map to see where those businesses are. Ads supporting the initiative will run on …See all …

Staples ties up with LinkedIn on small-business initiative

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Office supply chain Staples Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) has partnered with the professional social networking site LinkedIn to launch, "Succeed: Small Business Network," which will be a platform for small businesses to network, seek advice and get co…