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Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – May 18, 2011) – Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) announced today an additional one million dollar investment in small business job creation.

The investment comes as a continuation of Intuit’s highly successful Love a Local Business campaign, a program where small businesses win monetary grants based on online nominations from their fans.

The program has already awarded more than $500,000 in funding to 104 small businesses nationwide to both help them get back on their feet and celebrate their success to date.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – April 12, 2011) - Elance, the leading platform for online employment, introduced Startup Cloud, a new onramp resource that provides proven tactics, best practice strategies and advice to power startups tapping into the human cloud.

As part of the Startup Cloud program, Elance is partnering with The Founder Institute to help entrepreneurs find the best talent to build their dream companies.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – February 26, 2011) – Accounting professionals and small businesses are poised for progress as long as they continue to invest in new technologies, marketing and advertising and face-to-face time with clients.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – February 24, 2011) – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) announced that three of its channel partners, Baroan Technologies, SHI International Corp. and SureBridge IT have enabled their SMB customers to protect their data within VMware-virtualized environments with Symantec Backup Exec 2010.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – February 16, 2011) – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, shared results of its quarterly Merchant Confidence Index survey of over 8,500 small and local business owners across the U.S.

The data reveals that local merchants, who have very limited time and money for marketing, are gravitating towards simple, low-cost online marketing methods such as Facebook and other social media, as well as towards tried-and-true methods such as search and email marketing.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – February 16, 2011) – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, issued the results of its quarterly “Merchant Confidence Index (MCI),” a survey of over 8,500 local business owners across the country, sharing their confidence levels in the current economy as well as plans for future revenue, anticipated hiring and marketing spend.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – October 21, 2010) – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, announced the results of its quarterly “Merchant Confidence Index,” a survey of nearly 10,000 local business owners that gauges their confidence levels in the current economy and future marketing plans.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – September 8, 2010) – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced NetBackup 5000 deduplication appliance and cloud storage for NetBackup and Backup Exec to help organizations reduce their data storage footprint and more effectively leverage cloud-based data storage services.

These new delivery models provide organizations with the flexibility to manage their information in a way that makes the most sense for their environment, through software, appliance or a cloud-based solution.

Growing storm: a group of people gather outside Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California to protest the company's decision to join with Verizon in proposing that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless access and to outline rules for the wired internet that critics say are riddled with loopholes.

Mountain View, California (PRESS RELEASE – November 7, 2009) – Egnyte, a leading provider of on-demand file server solutions, today introduced Blackberry and Android device interfaces that allow small business users secure access to all their business files via their Blackberry or Android-powered smartphones.

The announcement coincides with the release of a national study on smartphone usage and challenges among small businesses.