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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...

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.

Social startup Sprinklr, which reports it is growing by leaps and bounds, announced today it has raised $40 million in a fourth round of funding and is launching a paid social media management module. “We really didn�...

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! In its second quarterly earnings call since going public ba...

Firefox is now significantly easier on the eyes. That may not matter to everyone, but for the design-obsessed, there's one less reason to avoid Firefox.

So a major Hadoop distribution and a hot NoSQL database walk into an Fortune 500 company...

Content marketing is of course, all the rage. No shortage of opinions, articles and other assorted collateral abound as essentially the entire marketing world looks to jump on the latest bandwagon that is content marketi...

The battle against Airbnb is heating up with a group of well-connected San Franciscans preparing an aggressive city ballot initiative against the home-sharing service. One of the bill’s architects, former planning comm...

Energy Future Holdings' Chapter 11 filing today in Wilmington, Del., represents the beginning of the final act for the largest leveraged buyout in history.

Guest Post: With nearly $3 trillion in play last year, the land of mergers and acquisitions would be the world's fifth largest country, nestling in comfortably between Germany and France. The value created by this imagin...

Online retailers have argued for years that they’ll lose business if they have to collect sales taxes on their online transactions. A new study by three researchers at Ohio State finds they are right. Paradoxically, th...

The NSA is partnering with tech-centric American colleges and universities to work on issues of Internet security.

I was speaking with a colleague last week who at one point in our conversation referred a third party as being naïve, to which my response was, “I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing – perhaps we should all be a bi...

Brand matters at the beginning. But it also doesn't.

The project will see how students use their Bitcoins when their whole community has them. "We're trying to seed an ecosystem and see what emerges."

"PHP had a moment of real popularity in the mid 2000s, [but the] PHP VM wasn't getting some of the innovations that others were getting " said Heroku vice president of product Adam Gross to VentureBeat.

The House of Representatives passed an awesome law to make federal spending more transparent.

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Samsung and Apple are losing ground in an increasingly comp...

Glam Media is giving itself a major makeover. Today the company announced that it is changing its name to Mode Media to better reflect its extended focus on a wider variety of topic-based publications, including Foodie, ...

Eric Schiermeyer wants to build a different kind of game company where the incentive is to stay small and lean.

It's cool to connect the web, so it's easy to understand Apigee's latest funding round.