THE Australian has made two significant appointments to its expanding business section. More here: Senior appointments for business section (The Australian)

US banks face a fresh crisis as a wave of commercial property loans threatens to go sour. Here is the original post: US property loans may fail (My Village City of London)

Scarborough’s Centennial College, one of the most diverse campuses in the country, has become the first in Canada certified to teach Islamic finance – a system that does not charge interest or invest in commodities that contravene Islamic law. See the article here: Centennial College to offer Islamic finance course (Toronto Star)

CruiseLineFans note that cruise companies, travel agents, online retailers, online communities and cruise customers are now using the web and social media in new and unexpected ways. More here: CruiseLineFans on The Cruise Industry, Customer Service and the New Age of Social Media (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

A new small-business lending program announced yesterday by Huntington Bank was well- See the original post: Bank steps up small-business aid (The Columbus Dispatch)

Twitter went wild today on rumors that Google decided to actually begin offering SEO consulting services. There’s even a couple articles out that make this ridiculously dumb claim in their titles, and yet it’s all due to a post on a Norwegian AdWords blog, which does NOT say that Google is getting into the business of SEO Consulting, nor as… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine...