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SmallBusiness.com News Wire Big Businesses Find Benefits in Mentoring Small Businesses | NYTimes.com To serve both their interests, some major corporations, including I.B.M., Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble and Home Depot, offer programs to mentor small companies, particularly businesses owned by women, blacks, Hispanics and other groups. Manufacturing index has best showing since last August | AP A report on manufacturing activity shows the sector contracted less than expected in June, posting its best showing since last August and another sign that a recovery may be near. Consumer confidence falls in June | AP Americans ? whose hope for the economy had been rising since March ? unexpectedly lost faith this month, pushing down a widely watched barometer. Small Firms Attract Big-Company Exiles | WSJ.com As major corporations lay off employees, small businesses are benefiting from an unexpected windfall: Displaced talent that is now knocking at the door. More headlines | RSS

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