Dell avoids talk of flawed deal, focuses on new software foray in press talks today

Dell execs hope to settle customer and partner anxiety with talk of their "big data" and cloud software products.

Booker gets $27.5M to brings its cloud tools to Main Street

Booker, the cloud-based service management startup formerly known as GramercyOne, has closed a $27.5 million funding round.

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.

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.

The War of the Dongles: PayPal Here enters the U.K.

PayPal is entering the European market with its Here product, a mobile payments system that competes directly with Square.

Marketing platform Bislr nabs $3.5M to help SMBs tone down the crazy

Bislr wants to help SMBs manage their online marketing activities by creating one platform to rule them all.

The Cloud is Robin Hood: it is bridging the gap between rich and poor

Who would have thought that cloud computing would be the modern day equivalent of Robin Hood?

Docstoc’s blockbuster premier: an MBA-level video series for small businesses [exclusive]

Docstoc, the online library of small-business documents, is giving its users a new kind of content: high-quality, beautifully produced videos that will give small and medium-sized businesses an MBA-level schooling in how to build and grow their companies.

New York startup Profitably loses all but one employee, CEO Adam Neary (exclusive)

Profitably, a startup trying to bring deep financial analytics to small and medium businesses, was founded two years ago, in March of 2010. Exactly one year ago this week we reported that the company raised $1.1 million in seed funding …

Small businesses are hungry for tablets, but only want iPads

Seventy-three percent of small and medium businesses in the U.S. intend to purchase tablets in the next 12 months, but these companies won’t settle for any old tablet — they want iPads.

The iPad is the most-considered tablet by businesses …

Startup’s simple solution for stupid sites: An About.me for businesses (invites)

Entrepreneur Arianna O’Dell couldn’t stop wondering why no one else had thought of it before: An About.me website generator for small businesses.

So she decided to build out that idea with co-founder Ludo Antonov, and a few weeks later, JustAbout.co …