The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce announced a new partnership with Google along with its new Big 5 initiative at its 130th annual dinner on Nov. 21. Kansas City is one of a handful of cities worldwide picked by Google to be part of an Urban Mobility Platform pilot project. That dovetails with the chamber’s new Big 5 goal: Building KC’s innovative regional transportation solutions. “While our core is…

Don’t spend all your Christmas money on Black Friday — save some to shop local on Small Business Saturday. Nov. 25 is this year’s Small Business Saturday, which started in 2010 in an effort to promote local retailers. Last year, a record 112 million consumers participated and generated about $15.4 billion for small businesses, according to American Express, a promoter of the campaign. Many Kansas City-area shopping centers are taking…

It’s exciting to tell the stories of small businesses — both the ones that grow into worldwide powerhouses and the ones that choose to stay local and focus their investments of time, jobs and money into the community. The goal of Thinking Bigger Business Media’s new executive vice president, Katie Bean, is to tell more of those stories….