Short take: Excite and Quicken co-brand Small Business Channel

Excite and financial software firm Quicken launched a co-branded small business information service available on Excite's new Small Busines Channel, WebCrawler, and Intuit's Quicken.com Web site. The service offers users a customizable homepage with small business news, business tools such as Quicken Business CashFinder comparison shopping Web service, and user-to-user bulletin boards among features.