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Carl Icahn has yet another idea for PayPal. In a statement published today, the activist investor pitched the idea that parent company eBay conduct an IPO of PayPal in which 20 percent of the electronic payments service ...

Some investors preach the importance of making decisions based on data but continue to back startups based on instinct. Now more firms are opting for a data-driven approach.     

Hadoop company Cloudera is in the midst of a fascinating transition as it looks to grow and go public. It needs to work with, not against, the very companies that could represent competition.     

Drones were recently dispatched to Beijing and neighboring provinces Shanxi and Hebei to monitor levels of air pollution and hunt down illegal polluters.     

Sponsored Post: Mobile Media Summit, the largest mobile advertising conference series in North America and Europe, is headed to Beverly Hills on April 1 for its third-annual Los Angeles show, where the focus will be on "...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Tiffany & Co., Darden Restaurants, and Nike.

As health-related startups spring up left and right in personal fitness and chronic-disease tracking, Metabiota has carved out its niche by bringing big data analysis to global health.     

Matua Winery's parent company, Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE), is making in Matua, is placing a multi-million dollar bet on New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Here's why.

The good news: campaigns now have an opportunity, best represented by the game-changing digital campaigns waged by the Obama-for-President effort, to target their voters more precisely.     

Last summer, Twitter shared their newest version of Twitter Cards. Many people who follow social media news closely have suggested that the launch directly challenges Facebook’s in-app mobile ads. As a media-rich twist...

Nominations are open for the DataBeat Innovation Showdown!     

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. The future of Silicon Valley’s technologi...

Advertising platform Rubicon Project has announced terms for an initial public offering today that will have the company seeking to raise $108 million. Rubicon Project operates an automated digital ad exchange that allow...

Chicago-based Packback takes their textbook-rental startup to the sharks of Shark Tank.

"The whole idea of a ground truth, which used to be a big thing in computing, is really starting to go away," said AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner.     

"What we're building is a 1-to-1 digital marketing platform," Salesforce's Mike Lazerow said. "We now have these best of breed products but also a unifying vision."     

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Cesar Kuriyama has had quite a run in the past two years. After working in the advertising business for five years, Cesar quit his job to take a year off. During that time he started working on a passion project called 1...

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I  chatted with Barton Hill, managing director, chief marketing officer for Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, about marketing’s focus on business development.

Even as we boldly move forward in the digital age, some things seem to remain the same. Marketing methods are an excellent example of this dichotomy. In one way, they are more advanced than ever before, based on an incre...

Startup lessons are everywhere, and this dad learned a lot from his young daughter.