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For years, Wall Street has been cheerful about FOMC meetings. Major equity indexes have rallied towards new highs, as traders and investors got what they expected: an accommodative FOMC statement.

Our bodies rocked toward the back of the bus as it pulled out of Washington D.C. headed for Manchester, New Hampshire.

Facebook is gearing up to release four updates designed to give brands better tools and create what it hopes will be a great ad experience for viewers. Among these changes include mobile polling, supporting videos in the...

Most venture capitalists like to back people with deep software engineering backgrounds. At Xfund, Patrick Chung prefers founders with a liberal arts twist.

Microsoft today announced new operating segments for its quarterly financial reporting. Operating segments are the domain of Wall Street analysts, and it’s not unusual for public companies to rearrange their structure ...

A Pew Center report tied to the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which literally changed the face of immigrants to the United States, projects that if immigration trends continue as ...

Michael Pachter predicts that the consoles will die, but it will be a very slow death over the coming years. Speaking at the Cloud Gaming Summit in San Francisco, the managing director and game analyst for Wedbush Securi...

Formula One’s chief executive Bernie Ecclestone says next year’s British Grand Prix is in doubt after the boss of Silverstone, the track which hosts the auto race, revealed that a 2013 property deal caused so much fi...

IBM today announced that it will buy Meteorix, a company that specializes in providing consulting services for Workday’s cloud-based finance and human resources software. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. From tod...

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Skaggs, a seasoned game designer that created hits such as FarmVille and Empires & Allies, has decided to leave Zynga after nearly seven years, GamesBeat has learned. Skaggs’ games have seen play from h...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 29 at 9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. While technology has paved the road to localization, it’s the expectations of today’s use...

Medium has more money in its coffers thanks to the enormous Series A investment it just received. The company announced that it has raised $57 million in new capital in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which it intend...

We live in a cyberfuture, which means we have relationships with brands — and now, someone has started measuring how close we are with the companies in our lives. Sony’s PlayStation gaming division is ranked the No. ...

At about 12:00 p.m. PDT today (3:00 p.m. EDT), Facebook went down. This is the third time the social network has gone down this month. VB staff from across the world confirmed they either couldn’t reach the social netw...

The trouble with "sustainability" is that for far too long it has been seen in the U.K. by the mainstream business media as worthy, but boring.

The three founders of a fast-growing online retail brand have shared some immensely sensible tips for success.

The world of social media changes quickly, with dozens of new platforms arriving each year and most existing companies scrambling to stay ahead of the game with new features and innovations. If history and some recently ...

ANALYSIS: Apple announced this morning that it sold more of its new iPhone 6 phones on opening weekend than any other iPhone — 13 million plus — but before we start planning the parade we should consider the big cave...

Branding is one of the most important and at the same time can be one of the most confounding areas for business owners of all sizes. Last week, Forbes asked small business owners to tweet their questions about branding ...

Google wants to help measure air pollution while also mapping air quality in our communities. The company announced that it will be using its Street View cars in California to understand how safe the air is. It will be u...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Wednesday, September 30 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Malcolm Ellerbe sees it everyday: SaaS companies or cloud-based companies that are caught o...

Ever since Windows 10’s release, there have been privacy concerns surrounding the operating system’s various tracking features. Microsoft today attempted to address many these with an explanation of what data and inf...