Google is threatening to do to venture capital funding what it has done to the search, browser, applications software, advertising and publishing worlds: turn the status quo upside down. The company has been quietly making relatively small investments in the $500K range in promising technology startups since 2Q 2007 — and then typically buys the [...]

Business owners who are behind in paying their taxes to the IRS are going to pony up more dough. The IRS raised the interest rate on taxes past due to 6% for balances existing or beginning in the third quarter of 2008. That’s an interest rate increase of a full point (and reflects the fact [...]