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Edinburgh-based education tech business CogBooks has raised $2.8 million to bring adaptive learning to the masses.

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Tel Aviv-based Sensiya's new SDK tells advertisers plenty about who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.

Doris Drucker, 1911-2014, played a key role in the evolution of the annual Global Peter Drucker Forum

Yahoo made bank from its investment in Chinese commerce giant Alibaba, and now may spend some of its winnings to take a large stake in the ephemeral-message app, Snapchat. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo ...

Marketing automation, especially cloud-based solutions, have become a big business, and new funding announcements continue to show up.

The tech industry may suffer from a lack of diversity — but not 500 Startups. Today 500 Startups, the accelerator program with locations in Mountain View, Calif., San Francisco, and Mexico City, is announcing that it�...

When colleges are re-ranked by how graduates do in the job market, only a few of the conventionally prestigious schools make the top of the list. LinkedIn mined its massive dataset of professionals to see what colleges w...

Facebook has obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers, the company revealed today. In its explainer on the fight against spam, Facebook says the lawsuits serve as a warning to “remind would-be off...

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Michael Jackson helped create a fundamental shift in the monetization of fame, and that's the notion at the core of "Michael Jackson, Inc," the first business-focused biography of the King of Pop. He earned an estimated ...

The tax agency now wants $29 million more, bringing its total demand to $731 million. Meanwhile, negotiations continue.

The Supreme Court's October 2014 term is stocked with challenges to the Obama administration's policies -- as well as a Sarbanes-Oxley conviction for destroying fish.

Do you feel exhausted when you hear about compromised bank and retail accounts? You may suffer from Security Breach Fatigue. An SEC filing yesterday revealed that 76 million households and 7 million businesses were affec...

"The problems of remote villages have now become the problems of the capital cities of three important countries," says Raj Panjabi, physician and founder of Last Mile Health. "There is no better proof that illness is un...

As iPhone 6 hype rages on, Apple may hold another press event as soon as October 16 to unveil updates to its iPad and iMac product lines. Rumors continue to suggest that Apple has another press event planned for 2014, an...

It’s the trademark battle where both sides put up their Dukes. The family of John Wayne has been sent to the mat in their attempt to challenge the North Carolina university’s trademark use. According to this case, Jo...

“How can we compete against e-commerce?”

Mastering innovation creates higher margins, more engaged teams, more satisfied customers, higher stock valuations and, in the best cases, a tribe of intensely engaged customers. Unfortunately, saying you are innovative ...

For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a challenge to the Obama administration's disparate-impact theory of discrimination.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the unemployment rate fell to 5.9%. That’s the lowest it’s been since July 2008 and many will undoubtedly feel more secure in their careers. But should they? Perhap...