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New York City now has a bike sharing program, but there are dozens of places where bicycles are the big thing.

Lumiata, a company that provides analytics that rely on a database of medical knowledge raised $5 million according to a recent SEC filing.

Burger King Worldwide has obtained commitments for $12.5 billion of financing to fund the cash portion of its merger with Tim Hortons, including a $9.5 billion debt financing package led by JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, th...

Guest Post: Marketing software is becoming increasingly intelligent, with vendors building predictive algorithms to improve every aspect of demand generation and sales. But it's only as good as the data fueling those al...

While an Amazon Web Services site in the Midwest might not be a sure thing yet, it could just be a matter of time.

Today is Women's Equality Day, the commemoration of the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 - merely 94 years or one long lifetime since American women won the right to vote for representatives of their own republ...

Retail stores aren't good at enticing customers to shop with them online, which is something startup Edgecase wants to fix.

Last summer, Rock Ventures CEO Dan Gilbert set loose his own personal bike sharing fleet in downtown Detroit. Now, General Motors is following suit at its technical center in Warren, Mich.

Just when you thought PayPal-owned Venmo had the corner on fast and easy payments, Square dropped a new function in its Cash app -- pay by text. With this update, people can send or request money from anyone in their add...

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As communication technologies become steadily more comprehensive and intuitive, companies looking to expand globally in 2014 will have fewer logistical problems reaching out to other nations.

The recent meeting with the FDA, and the hiring of Google's Google Glass guy, point toward a consumer health play in the making.

Remember those big iPad rumors from last year? Well, they’re back. Apple is reportedly gearing up to release a 12.9-inch iPad early next year, according to Bloomberg. That’s a big step up from the iPad’s 9.7-inch s...

Amazon is in a battle of ecosystems with Apple, Google, and others, and Twitch -- along with gaming as a whole -- is one of the weapons that Bezos plans to use in the fight.

Alsop Louie was one of the first investors in Twitch. That company's sale to Amazon will now make it easier to close the second half of the firm's third fund.

I don’t know about all this tax inversion business, but will the pairing of Tim Hortons and Burger King create a branding diversion for one or the other of them?

As industry executives have said, more or less, 'you can't go online to get a haircut'.

With today's technology, even small companies can now compete internationally by having a web presence translated into the languages of major foreign markets. Learn how to tap into a global market in this one-hour webin...

Gracenote is ramping up plans to expand beyond its roots as a music metadata service, and as such has brought on a new head honcho.

WordPress.com parent company Automattic today announced the acquisition of BruteProtect, a plugin that protects WordPress users from malicious logins. Going forward, Automattic says it will integrate BruteProtect’s tec...

The deal should give Google a few advantages in the hotly competitive cloud business.

We all know that it takes passion to succeed. We know this because parents, teachers, friends, colleagues, bosses, career advisors, TV talking heads, and even the pet groomer down the block relentlessly drill the Passion...