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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

Entrepreneurs not impressed by Business Bank 

The vast majority of entrepreneurs feel that the Business Bank will not make a significant difference to boosting lending to UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Surge in small businesses hiring e-commerce experts as more companies move online

More and more UK small enterprises are moving online in order to become more competitive, research suggests.

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Businesses that decline card payments are losing out, says survey

More than 120 million transactions are lost each year in the UK through shops not accepting card payments, research finds.

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Entrepreneurial Britain: Eight million in the UK operating online business from home

One in six people in the UK are operating as an 'online business from home', specifically purchasing goods to resell, or making their own products to sell for profit, finds research.

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Business bank launches with £300 million pot for small and medium-sized businesses

Businesses struggling with raising finance have been handed a potential lifeline by the launch of a new initiative put in place to facilitate the flow of cash to needy companies.

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Unlicensed software use rampant among small businesses

A third of UK small businesses are infringing copyrights by using unlicensed software, research finds.

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Small businesses to be greeted by cuts in red tape

Dozens of cuts to red tape are set to come into force in response to issues raised by businesses.

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UK small retailers believe America is the hardest overseas market to crack

Nearly half of British retailers believe the US remains the hardest market in which to achieve commercial success despite being the current export destination of choice.

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Small businesses to be greeted by cuts in red tape

Dozens of cuts to red tape are set to come into force in response to issues raised by businesses.

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UK small retailers believe America is the hardest overseas market to crack

Nearly half of British retailers believe the US remains the hardest market in which to achieve commercial success despite being the current export destination of choice.

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Small businesses ‘far more vulnerable’ to distributed denial of service attacks

Cyberattacks of the kind that resulted in last week's global internet slowdown are capable of destroying small businesses, warn tech entrepreneurs.

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Hull leads the way as more businesses report promising growth

The number of businesses reporting strong year-on-year growth is on the increase, finds research from Experian.

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Copyright information ‘Hub’ set to be launched to educate on intellectual property 

A one-stop-shop website about rights ownership and copyright licences has been announced by the government.

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Companies get innovative in response to tough times for business

Two thirds of small businesses in the UK have been forced to overhaul how they work in reaction to poor economic conditions, according to a new report.

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