2M Facebook fans better than Super Bowl ad, celeb endorsement … or Twitter followers

Facebook fans are the holy grail of small business, according to a recent study by Staples.

HP tries to snare small businesses with latest Windows 8 touchscreen laptops for $499 and up

These models are 36 percent thinner and 18 percent lighter than previous notebooks.

Angie’s List is killing it: revenue, members, growth — and stock price — all up

"It took us more than 16 years to get to one million paid households but just 18 months to double it."

Happy Foursquare Day, get your super-duper self-quantified activity infographic for the past 365 days

It's the 16th day of the fourth month -- four squared, in other words. Which means it's Foursquare Day, and which means that you can visit Fourquare.com to get a personalized infographic of the past year year.

Facebook loves local: 2B small biz connections, 645M weekly views, 13M weekly comments

Facebook loves local business, apparently. And local business loves Facebook.

Kabbage wants to provide loans to 100K small businesses this year

Kabbage just announced it has closed a credit facility of $75 million, its largest to date. With these funds, Kabbage aims to provide 100,000 advances by the end of 2013.

Twitter for business, 101: Twitter wants to help advertisers ‘tweet to success’

It's no April Fools joke: Twitter is getting seriously serious about monetization. Just the latest indicator is a refreshed and updated help site the social network launched today for business users.

Intuit and LinkedIn team up to help small businesses compete for talent (exclusive)

The initiative, known as "Hire Smart," kicks off with a free event featuring a host of speakers, including "Apprentice" winner Bill Rancic, Intuit CEO Brad Smith, and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.

Quorum pulls in $11M to help small businesses recover from hardware failure

A startup that provides one click backup and recovery for small businesses has pulled in $11 million in funding.

Twitter supports ‘Small Business Saturday’ with free ads

For small businesses, Twitter's offer of $100 free advertising credits might be a nice Thanksgiving weekend present.

Small business loves Facebook and Twitter, ignores LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest (infographic)

90 percent of small businesses are Facebook, and 70 percent are on Twitter. LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest? Not so much.

Startups and freelancers: free parachuting, pancakes, pedicures, or parking

Cloud accounting service Freshbooks launched its new iPhone app yesterday. To celebrate, the company is giving 160 entrepreneurs a little treat.

ThriveHive breaks local business out of cookie-cutter marketing mold

ThriveHive, a startup that provides a comprehensive marketing platform for local businesses, just announced that it’s closed a $1.5 million seed funding round today. The money will contribute towards customer acquisition and further developing the software, which creates custom marketing …