This week, two tech-enabled small businesses were featured in their local papers to highlight the growing concern among the small business community with the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act pending in Congress.

Yesterday, Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) both filed amendments to the tax policy legislation currently being debated in the U.S. Senate that would protect small businesses from the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act currently being debated in Congress.

Last week, Merchant Warehouse, a payment solutions company, released a study that highlighted the growing trend of “webrooming” among American shoppers.  Webrooming describes the act of researching products online and then visiting a store to make a purchase, opposed to “showrooming” which describes consumers who price shop online after visiting physical stores.  The study found that 69 percent of people with smartphones between the ages of 18-36 have engaged in webrooming, while only 50 percent have actively showroomed.

Today, at 2pm EDT, PayPal, in coordination with the U.S.

During a roundtable event earlier this year with eBay executives, eBay small businesses and officials from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U. S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe announced a partnership for U.S.