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If you are thinking of starting a small business, you might care about potential profits. While your skills as an entrepreneur and the quality of your business idea certainly influence what you will earn, so does the industry in which you operate. In fact, as figures from business data aggregator Sageworks Inc. show, small business profitability varies a lot across industries.

Using its proprietary database of private company financial statements collected from accountants and financial institutions that supply information on their clients, Sageworks’ analysts provided me with a list of the most and least profitable industries in 2011 for businesses with $5 million or less in sales.

For all the attention lavished on the Web’s growth on mobile devices this year, one of the most interesting Internet trends is still best experienced on a desktop computer: online education.

The rising cost of higher education (the average bachelor’s degree now costs more than $100,000), combined with increasing access to high-speed Internet service and a desire for more efficient and flexible learning methods, brought new prominence to websites offering free or low-priced courses in everything from programming to literature.

La empresa Maier, que fabrica componentes de automoción, continúa con sus planes de internacionalización con el objetivo de mantener el empleo local. Y es que, el grupo cerrará este año con una plantilla de un total de 1700 trabajadores

La empresa Maier, que fabrica componentes de automoción, continúa con sus planes de internacionalización con el objetivo de mantener el empleo local. Y es que, el grupo cerrará este año con una plantilla de un total de 1700 trabajadores.