Round-up: Google helps SMEs with web presence

Laura Miller
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Markets rise on central banks' action, Google helps SMEs, and Goldman Sachs closes the jewel in the hedge fund world's crown - our round-up of the news from the nationals.

The UK arm of Google has launched a new trial scheme offering small businesses advice and support to increase their online potential. Some 1,500 firms in Merseyside will be taught how to 'build a website in 15 minutes' and will benefit from all other sorts of free one-on-one digital support for a trial period of three months. If successful, the scheme may be rolled out to other parts of the UK, the Daily Mail reports. MORE Markets rose sharply after central banks launched co-ordinated action to ease the European banking crisis in a throwback to the height of the 2008 funding crisis. ...

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