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IBM today announced that it is enhancing several of its existing software products with the Apache Spark open-source data processing engine, including the SPSS predictive analytics software. IBM bought SPSS for $1.2 bill...

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“I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States,” ukulele-wielding entertainer Arthur Godfrey once said. “The only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.”

The UK's equity crowdfunding market continues to evolve. When Crowdcube launched the UK's  first equity crowdfunding platform back in 2011, the emphasis was on mobilizing a potentially huge army of small investors who w...

CHICAGO (By Nathan Layne) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head ...

Here’s a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. SimilarWeb raises $25 million round SimilarWeb, a service that measures the data from websites and app...

Last month the Waste360 Recycling Summit took place in Chicago, IL. The Summit was a collaboration between The Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF), a nonprofit that funds and directs scientific resear...

MasterCard wants you to be able to make purchases with everything from wearables to key fobs, so it’s bringing the technology behind Apple Pay to more devices. Today, the company announced at Money2020 it’s partnerin...

The online video delivery platform Brightcove today announced new technology that defeats software that blocks video ads on desktop and mobile devices. The anti-ad-blocking capability is part of Brightcove Lift, the comp...

TEL AVIV — I traveled to Israel for the first time last week to get a good look at the country’s $1 billion game industry. Israel is the home of more than 200 game companies, not including a number of marketing techn...

GUEST: What if you could not only understand but also predict consumer behavior on your site? In real time, for anonymous visitors and customers alike? That’s the promise behind a new generation of vendors who are maki...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, October 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Of course, marketers want to provide the very best experience to consumers. However, with chang...

Facebook is rolling out a new way to curate notifications on its mobile apps that it hopes you’ll find more useful. In this update, the notifications tab will display more than just people commenting on your posts or t...

Etsy is entering the on-demand economy with the launch of a new fast delivery pilot called Etsy ASAP. The service starts today in New York and will allow select sellers to offer same day or next day delivery for $20 thro...

The Surface Book is now available, and with it comes a new “Making the switch” site from Microsoft targeted specifically at Apple’s MacBook owners. In short, Microsoft is very aware that many Mac users haven’t sp...

Twitter has launched a new tool out of beta that’s designed to help brands better understand just how much of the conversation on Twitter is focused around them. With its new Brand Hub, Twitter says marketers can now b...

LinkedIn today announced that it is releasing a new key-value store — which is a category of database — under an open-source license. The software, which goes by the name PalDB, was designed to store what LinkedIn ca...

Following the news that Uber is going to open a major office in downtown Oakland, some residents shocked the tech elite by failing to pay proper deference to their new digital saviors. Rather than genuflecting before the...

Semiconductor startup Flex Logix Technologies has raised $7.4 million to commercialize its technology for designing flexible semiconductor chips. Mountain View, California-based Flex Logix has come up with a way to desig...

Right on schedule and just in time for the opening of its flagship store in New York, Microsoft has started selling its new Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book in the U.S. and Canada. Microsoft has also updated the firmware f...

Impact investing funds seeking market rates perform about as well as traditional counterparts, according to a recent study. And the mission tends to stay intact post exit.

Many venture capitalists are shy about investing in games. And for the first nine months of 2015, game investments were down about 35 percent from a year earlier, according to tech advisory firm Digi-Capital. But some br...