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The report flies in the face of other theories saying Apple prefers to work through credit card partners to recruit merchants to its platform.

The venerable Detroit-based company, started in 1973, said it can now focus on its mainframe solutions and application performance management.

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Put another way, who is it that now cares about the Caremark mark?

Two new studies show why ridesharing is crushing the taxi business. Unequivocally, the new research proves that ridesharing dramatically reduces wait times and can make cities less congested. UC Berkeley researchers foun...

I've never had the privilege of sitting in the front row of an intimate Coldplay performance, but with Samsung's new virtual reality headset, I was able experience the next best thing.

There’s a dark hole in the Salesforce universe. It’s where sales reps keep their own notes on deals that may never pan out — and a startup is targeting that hole with an updated app. “Sales reps never really like...

In a classic case of acquiring a company that offers related and complementary services that can beef up a company’s offerings, antivirus company AVG Technologies has a acquired mobile location and security company Loc...

Black Duck, an OSS provider, hauls in $20 million to build out global operations.

It’s been 14 years since deviantART began as a small-time picture hub. In that time it’s evolved into a complex intersection of art and commerce, attracting 2.5 billion monthly page views from 67 million unique visit...

Marketers spend gobs of money and even more time trying to devise ways to engage people with a particular brand. Not enough of them realize music might be the best way to do that — and that Feed Media could be music to...

Google has apparently won the Internet, so why not web-based digital analytics products too? TrustRadius’ latest user-powered report is on digital analytics, and the freely available Google Analytics package seems to b...

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. High school students say they never plan on working in a real corporate environment, and MBA candidates at Stanford are forgoing corporate gigs to start their own ventures.  Peter T...

Amazon today announced that its Fire TV streaming set-top box will arrive in the U.K. and Germany on October 23. The expansion follows the Fire TV’s U.S. launch earlier this year. Today’s announcement also follows th...

Software businesses can be worth phenomenal amounts of money if the data transformations are managed to their full potential. Those that manage the transformation of their data explicitly through all five stages of the d...

SAN FRANCISCO — Box today introduced Box Workflow, a set of tools that can help employees act on all the files floating around in the cloud. “We think it’s business process made better,” Box chief executive Aaron...

This trio of speakers shows how international our conference will be.

SAN FRANCISCO — Box can now integrate with the desktop version of Microsoft’s Office 365 software, Box cofounder and chief executive Aaron Levie announced today. It’s now available in beta. More than 240,000 busine...

Teradata wants to help companies use Hadoop for certain uses and also move its data warehouses, too. A bigger consulting arm could come in handy as more companies try out Hadoop and other open-source tech.

Some are virtually household names, like Uber and Dropbox, Snapchat and WhatsApp. Others you may never have heard of, like GungHo and Airwatch and RocketFuel. But all of them have two things in common: a minimum billion-...

In Samsung’s newest phablets, we can clearly see the companies conflicting personalities: A noble urge for refinement, and a bumbling desperation to be innovative. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge this ...

European retailer Zalando's IPO, which was announced officially on Wednesday, could be the largest offering from Germany's tech sector in 14 years.