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Microsoft and Dell today jointly announced the launch of Cloud Platform System Standard, a new package of Microsoft cloud software that’s designed to be deployed on purpose-built Dell hardware for companies’ on-premi...

Uber’s senior vice president of international expansion, Niall Wass, is departing after some internal restructuring, Over the summer, much of the company’s international operations were culled into a single departmen...

HP today announced that on Jan. 31, 2016, it will stop offering its public cloud for running companies’ applications. Some people thought HP was ditching the public cloud, which currently goes by the brand name Helion,...

Investors like Bill Ackman (Trades, Portfolio), Ruane Cunniff (Trades, Portfolio) and John Paulson (Trades, Portfolio) took hits to their portfolio today after a company published a damning reporting on one of t...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has just wrapped up its keynote event at its second annual Flight developer conference. There was quite a lot of ground covered, starting with a quick note from new chief executive Jack Dorsey, ...

Some celebrity and brand partnerships are straight endorsements, while others are licensing/royalty based. Oprah is doing a rarity.

It’s hard to believe that Chelsea was a rural village until 1830 when King’s Road was opened to the public. Originally built as King Charles II’s private road for his travel to Hampton Court, this road was a royal ...

Now that eBay is officially separated from PayPal, investors want to see that the auction site still has room to grow. This quarter eBay posted revenue of $2.1 billion and earnings of $0.43. Analysts were anticipating ea...

Unicorns aside, let’s focus the lens on who is investing. Lately, a great deal has been written about the need to have more women on the investing side of the table. Researching the topic, I discovered a little known f...

Microsoft is expanding its global effort to provide and enhance computer literacy and training under the banner YouthSpark, committing $75 million over the next three years.

If you’ve seen so many scary movies that you no longer feel fear, Paramount Pictures may have the next generation of horror you crave. VRWerx, a virtual reality experience company, has partnered with Paramount and AMC ...

Smartifying the world is still a confusing mess of protocols, standards, and platforms.

Most retirement contribution limits don't budge for 2016; are you on track to max out 2015 savings?

How seamless can social interaction become part of a business process? Some of the best examples come from online shopping. Now SAP is taking that one step further.

The founders of Monarq believe that the future of empowering women lies in an all-female "friendship network" that has the potential to create an entirely new industry. Watch their Roadmap Video to find out how they plan...

Twitter today announced two new application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers can use to integrate data from the Twitter’s Gnip service into third-party apps. They’re not just meant to provide tweets, whi...

Twitter today announced at its Flight developer conference in San Francisco a new free tool called Twitter Publish for showing off embedded tweets. It’s meant to be a new way for media companies to package up Twitter�...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2014, Twitter introduced the world to Fabric, a mobile developer platform for incorporating Twitter feeds and crash tracking into any application. It’s an all-in-one suite of tools that sought to b...

PRESS RELEASE: Coupa Software, a leading cloud-based spend management company, is ranked number 22 out of the top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. The ranking was...

Valeant calls short seller reports alleging sham transactions erroneous.

Twitter today announced the release of a new tweet composer for its TwitterKit package of mobile app development tools. The tool will allow mobile app developers to show users previews of tweets they write from within th...

Twitter said today that app developers can now build native video ads into their apps using the MoPub management platform. Using the new capabilities in MoPub, developers can then create video ads that match the look and...