Democrats led by Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez are strongly supporting a bill that could negatively affect small businesses. The bill would result in small businesses competing with large venture capitalists. For more information on the proposed bill, watch the SmallBusinessNewz video.

A study shows that small businesses don’t have a lot of faith in the economy. The Small Business Research Board conducted a nationwide poll that reveals these significant findings. Catch the results of the study right here on SmallBusinessNewz.

Small businesses have not welcomed President Bush’s budget proposal. According to the United States House Small Business Committee, the proposal fails small businesses in the U.S. The proposal has left small businesses wondering how they will survive in an already declining economy. Catch the full story from Reporter Abby Prince, right here on SmallBusinessNewz.

NBC Universal and News Corporation decided to name their video-sharing site Hulu.com. While many were surprised by the name, no one was more surprised than the staff at Lulu. SmallBusinessNewz spoke with Gail Jordan, Lulu’s Director of Public Relations, about the issue. Lulu has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Hulu. Catch all the details with Abby Prince, including the exclusive interview with Gail Jordan, only on SmallBusinessNewz.

A free tool used to block all advertisements while using Mozilla’s Firefox Browser has been released and making some people angry. Creator of Adblock Plus, Wladimir Palant specifically states it is only available for Firefox, and doesn’t plan to create an Adblock for Internet Explorer. For more details of Adblock Plus from Kara Ratliff, keep watching SmallBusinessNewz.

According to a release from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web site advertising is up 19.3% for this quarterly. Due to a number of reasons detailed by Beth Lawton, Manager of Digital Media Communications for the NAA, which spoke with WebProNews. For more details from Kara Ratliff, keep watching SmallBusinessNewz.

Wikipedia, one of the largest reference sites is open to the public for editing. But now Virgil Griffith has created a new application for the free site, to allow users to see who has edited the page. Last year, reports showed that several big companies tweaked their own pages to only allow good things on the pages, so Virgil Griffith created WikiScanner. He directed us to the Maltastar page to view a list of vandalism on Wikipedia. We talked with Convergence and Broadband Blogger from ZDnet, Russell Shaw and the communications manager for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Sandy Ordonez to gain an insight. Kara Ratliff takes you through what makes this so fascinating.

In the book Stop the Presses!, Joseph Farah calls Google evil. He gives a very detailed description of why he believes Google is evil and has tried to pursue his views through many sources. Farah discusses some of his main topics, including Google’s deal with China and banner ads. For more details from Kara Ratliff, keep watching WebProNews.

The online telephone site, Skype experienced difficulties with the network. Many businesses using the service complained there were problems logging into the site. Over 220-million people were put out of contact with one another. Skype released a statement stating they were on their way to recovery, while they are currently trying to stabilzie the site. Engineers for the site also said there was a flaw with every download since the server’s start in 2003. Catch all the details with Kara Ratliff, right here on SmallBusinessNewz.

Microsoft Corp. purchased the digital marketing services agency, aQuantive for $6 billion dollars. Microsoft looks to improve their online advertising revenues and keep up with the two top money makers, Google and Yahoo. The corporation created the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group to handle the advertisements. Catch all the details with Kara Ratliff, right here on SmallBusinessNewz.