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New Small Business Blog Launched By Advocacy
The Office of Advocacy has launched a new small business blog focusing on regulatory issues, small business research, state regulatory activity, and more.
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Illegal Contractors may Face Felony Charges
The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) is keeping its pressure on phony contractors who try to profit from the recent Southern California wildfires. CSLB teamed with the Department of Insurance, the Los Angeles District Attorney?s Office and the Los Angeles Police Department to conduct an undercover sting operation on Wednesday. The operation targeted illegal operators advertising for construction work in the fire.
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Business Opportunities in Egypt
With a real GDP growth of 7.1% in 2006-07, 7.5% the first nine months of 2008, and a population of 80.3 million -- Egypt offers great potential for U.S. companies. And that is precisely why, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service and the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Ex-Im Bank has organized the "Egypt-U.S. Finance Conference" on Wednesday, November 12, at the Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel in Cairo
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Contractors State License Board Issues Double Warning about Illegal Contracting In Mariposa County Wildfire Zone
The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) is warning illegal contractors to stay away from the wildfire zones in Mariposa County and other parts of California. Illegal operators face serious prison time if caught working or trying to get contracting work over $500 in a declared disaster or State of Emergency area. The CSLB is also cautioning fire victims to beware of unscrupulous or unlicensed operators who may try to take advantage of them.
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Information Security for Small Businesses
You?ve worked hard to get your business up and running. You?ve built a base of loyal clientele and have a solid business plan. But what would you do if your business computer got a virus and crashed?
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Domain Registrations Scam: FTC Halts Cross Border Con Artists
Thousands of Small Businesses and Nonprofits Billed for Domain Registrations They Didn't Get
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FTC Secures Full Proceeds of Business Opportunity Scammer?s $100,000 Performance Bond
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has successfully secured the proceeds of repeat offender Richard Neiswonger?s $100,000 performance bond. Last year, in a civil contempt case brought by the Commission, a U.S. district judge found Neiswonger in contempt for violating the terms of a 1997 permanent injunction by deceptively marketing business opportunities and failing to provide proof of his bond to the Commission, among other things. Until now, the company that issued the bond had refused to pay the Commission in full.
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Online Training Program for Exporters
The U.S. Department of Commerce?s Bureau of Industry (BIS) today unveiled additional training modules to complete its series on the basics of export control available at the BIS Online Training Room training room. More than twenty thousand visitors have viewed one or more of the initial group of modules since the training room was unveiled in March.
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SEC Broadens Opportunities for Small Business Financing
The Securities and Exchange Commission today broadened small business financing opportunities by adopting a rule amendment under the Investment Company Act to increase the availability of capital to certain smaller companies that may not have ready access to the public capital markets or other forms of conventional financing.
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Work-At-Home Marketer Settles FTC Charges in Envelope-Stuffing Scheme
Byron C. Peterson has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges for his role in an operation that allegedly misled consumers with false earnings claims for an envelope-stuffing business opportunity.
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