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The markets opened higher today thanks to better than expected growth in factory orders.

DaVita HCP (DVA) was upgraded by Deutsche Bank (DB) from hold to buy with a price target of $136 as the firm is less concerned about earnings trajectory year over year.

It looks like Chinese search engine Baidu is building a 'Baidu Eye' to compete with Google Glass.

Zynga is applying its massive infrastructure toward real-money gambling in the United Kingdom.

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) was downgraded by Goldman Sachs (GS) from neutral to sell due to falling earnings expectations. A $16 price target was set.

Hey, it's got the endorsement of reigning Masters champion Bubba Watson. And it doesn't damage greens and fairways as today's carts do.

Chargerback's software streamlines the lost-and-found process to help hospitality businesses get your stuff back to you.

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"Big data" startup Deep Information Sciences has raised $10 million in its first round of funding to help its customers with a "new approach" to database architectures.

The USPTO may just have made a billion-dollar decision. Or at least several hundred million.

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The Commerce Department announced that new orders for factory goods increased sharply in February. Orders for manufactured goods increased by three percent, exceedpng estimates of 2.9 percent. Civilian aircraft orders ju...

Elissa Murphy, Yahoo's VP of engineering for cloud services, is the second employee in two weeks to leave Yahoo to work for Blake Irving, Yahoo's former CPO who now heads up Go Daddy.

Big data solutions are picking up speed in the IT industry. There's a Cambrian explosion of interesting start-ups, and all the database and business intelligence incumbents have moved to create big data offerings, or reb...

Few saw this one coming.

ElectNext just raised $1.3 million to bring its open political database to the news media.

Yahoo Mail has integrated with cloud storage hotshot Dropbox so email users can send attachments of any size and save attachments to Dropbox.

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Hyundai's E4U concept is a sad, nutty take on the future of personal transportation. Let's hope Hyundai never actually sells it.

March Madness brackets are being filled out on mobile with increasing frequency

Auctionata raised $20 million to expand its marketplace of valuable objects and community of experts, making the auction process more accessible.