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$14.4B was spent worldwide on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics enterprise software in 2013, increasing 8% from $13.3B in 2012.   SAP continues to solidify its market leadership in BI and analytics, generating $...

Securities and Exchange Commissioner Kara Stein on Monday denounced the regulator's decision to continue providing special benefits to a big bank after its conviction for manipulating interest rates. The SEC spared Royal...

When Thomas Meagher heard the man charged with raping and murdering his wife speak in court, he had a horrifying realization — the suspect seemed like a human and not a monster. Here's what Meagher wrote in a post publ...

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Last week, in Part I of the epic mini-series that is this edition of Tax Geek Tuesday, we addressed taxable mergers and acquisitions. As promised, today we will take on the tax-free reorganization provisions of Section 3...

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, sa...

It is practically a foregone conclusion in aviation circles that China eventually will learn how to build safe and efficient world-class civil aircraft exportable worldwide. But the country’s plan to build a new large-...

Wall Street will soon learn whether Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's recent efforts to turn Twitter into Facebook is working. Costolo has been furiously rolling out tweaks to the micro-blogging site...

* Ups dividend to 9.75 cents from 9.5 cents per share * Q1 profit $3.2 bln vs $3.1 bln consensus forecast * Rosneft contribution down 75 pct vs. Q4 2013 * Shares up 0.8 pct (Adds analyst comment, share price) By Sarah Yo...

A group of investors that includes a former Hollywood child actor are attempting to hit the emergency stop button on MtGox's liquidation.  Late Monday, Sunlot Holdings announced it had arranged a settlement in two class...

If a new accounting rule had been in effect, it appears that Bank of America could not have made the mistake that caused it to suspend a planned dividend increase and share buyback.

I had lunch in San Francisco with a source close to Facebook today, and we got chatting about who really advertises on the social network. A huge aspect of Facebook's business revolves around small- and medium-size busin...

Hugh E. McGee III will leave his post on Wednesday, even as the bank prepares to create a new holding company for its American business by July 2016.

Australian stocks rise ahead of what is expected to be another round of record profit results by the country's major banks

The company acquired in the biggest leveraged buyout ever was set to file for bankruptcy Monday evening, two sources told The Post. KKR, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and TPG Capital...

On Wednesday, everyone on Wall Street will be talking about the weather. No, it's not going to snow. But snow will be important to the discussion because Wednesday is when...

Herbalife, the controversial nutritional supplements company, is pulling out all the stops to buy back its shares as the cost of its battle with activist Bill Ackman and multiple regulators...

With the latest round of sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, relationships between Russian state-owned businesses and large multinational companies look increasingly complicated.

Without a doubt, one of the most important American regulatory bodies is the FDA. As the agency charged with ensuring the safety of everything from the protein shake you drank after the gym to the ibuprofen you take the ...

Los Altos-based SaaS security startup Vorstack secured $5.2 in venture funding to build out its SaaS security platform Tuesday.

Location data is becoming more valuable for more companies' applications. And with the potential for serving smarter ads, there's plenty more upside.

Gnip has been growing, unlike Twitter's data processing business.