Apple steps up iPhone for business pitch – The Business Journal
Apple is stepping up its pitch for business users of the iPhone with a new ad campaign and a website, aiming to take more corporate customers away from Research in Motion’s Blackberry. The ad says, “IPhone loves business. With over 425,000 apps …

Google+ to Businesses: Wait a Bit – NewsFactor Network
A company is not a “he” or a “she,” which is one of the reasons why Google is asking businesses to hold off using their new social network , Google+. Now in a field test and currently intended for consumers, Google+ recently asked Ford to indicate its …

BMW buys car-leasing business for around $1 billion – Detroit News
Germany’s BMW Group has struck a deal to acquire the car-leasing unit of Dutch banking group ING for around $1 billion, to expand its own fleet management division and underpin its budding electric car business. The acquisition of ING Car Lease for 637 …

BC-Business News Digest – Birmingham News
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Businesses still patient during TRAX construction – Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY Businesses along North Temple have been in “survival mode” for months trying to hold out through the next 12 months of projected construction that will eventually produce a new light-rail line and revitalize the corridor between 300 …